Customer Reviews

Treasure Island

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
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2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Nice little hardback edition of this wonderful classic. The print is fairly small, so you'll need a good pair of eyes or a good pair of glasses, but other than that a marvelous little book, very handsome indeed, and a great bargain.

I made it to chapter 8 in this book when lo and behold it skipped all the way to chapter 13! I was horrified because I am really enjoying this book. I searched the entire book, and this is only place where pages are missing. Does anyone else with this very book (ISBN 0760750920) have the same problem?

My negative review is based on one major fact. There is no where in the description that the book is 6 1/4 x 4 inches in size with only one illustration. Thus it was not at all appropriate for the three little girls ages 8-10 who were to receive it this Christmas.

"Treasure island" was a hard book to understand at my age (12). Its sentences were written in old English, which got you confused. The sentences were also pretty long. There word choice was hard and confusing. On page 118 the 4th sentence has like three hard words. The description was good but at times the plot was confusing. A significant event that happened was when the mutineers attacked their ship and killed Flint.
My personal opinion of this book is I thought it was bad and hard to understand. It was written so far back that the old English was so confusing. It seemed like there were like ten different things happening at one time. So a good age for a reader of this book would be around thirteen and up. Twelve year olds could read it to if you're a good reader. But if your not that great of a reader than you might think the book is confusing like I did. So all in all, I would give the book a three on a one through ten scale.