Treasure Island

Writen in XIX Century and good:
I read this book, here in Brazil, when I was a teenager.This book is a fiction and was writen while the author was sick, with tuberculosis in Davos, Switzerland, during XIX Century. If you want to read a good fiction, this book is a good choice.Don't wait a book about history of real pirates.This is a fiction.A so good fiction that it was used by Hollywood to produce many movies, following this good book.

Treasure Island:
This book is a fun read. It starts out with action and that action continues throughout. This is the quintessential pirates book. Classic characters like Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins come to life on these pages. The exploits of Jim and his cohorts aboard the Hispanola aare both believable (to a degree) and entertaining. Boys will thoroughly enjoy this book but it need not be gender specific (though there is but one female part in this book and that one a minor part at that). It is fast-paced and just a darn good read.

classic pirate's tale:
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson created a rich story of suspense and adventure. A very easily read, fast-moving and enjoyable book. Highly recommended.

Praise-worthy, perilous pirate adventure:
Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, owners of the Admiral Benbow inn, and their son James "Jim," are alternately intrigued and repulsed by the latest lodger, a "plain" hard-drinking, terrifying-tale-telling man who promises payment to the boy every month for watching out for a "...seafaring man with one leg." "Black Dog appears and disappears" and soon after, the pirate lodger (Billy Bones) dies, still in financial debt to the family. Mrs. Hawkins decides to take what's theirs from the "seaman's chest," Mr. Hawkins having passed away, but by then Black Dog has gathered together a band of thieving pirates who know about Bones' treasure trove. The bad guys find the chest, but only after Jim has removed the object of their desire: a map of an island marked, "Bulk of treasure here." After locating a ship and crew, Dr. Livesey (a family friend) and the boy head off with them on a ship called the Hispaniola. En route to the island, Hawkins learns about a mutinous plan and shares it with his allies, who plan for their imminent peril, outmanned and outgunned from the start. Young Hawkins, showing cunning and bravery beyond his years, triumphs as a young, inexperienced underdog turned hero. Treasure Island, with its colorful characters, perfect pirate jargon and mannerisms, and ultra-exciting plot is an amazing story, surprisingly first published in 1883. The book on CD, read by Richard Matthews, is a brilliant, five-star find. Also good: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, and Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins.

25 words or less:
Jim Hawkins can't decide who should be his dad, so he skips the question entirely and turns into a man himself. Also, rum.