The magic of Treasure Island is that it is very sophisticated book for young people that feels like a book for adults; as a result, a twelvish-year old me managed to read the whole thing in one sitting in front of the fireplace on a very cold day in Alaska, and as a result, I felt like some kind of genius. As an adult, revisiting the adventure novel, I realized that I was actually just your typical above-grade level reader, and that Treasure Island is distinctly a kid's book. But it is an excellent and fun book, either way, and the original is far better than any of the myriad bad adaptations and abridged versions, with the exception of Muppet Treasure Island, which remains one of the greatest films of our lifetime.
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