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Treasure Island!!! Paperback – December 7, 2011
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A young slacker decides to live her life according to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure: “A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent” (The New York Times).
When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim Hawkins, broken from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat, killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her getting a hunk of gold?
Convinced that Stevenson’s book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she’d originally planned. Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice―“insane, hilarious, and irreverent” (Alice Sebold).
“Highly original . . . will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator.”―Library Journal
“A hoot.”―Kirkus Reviews
- Print length172 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEuropa Editions
- Publication dateDecember 7, 2011
- Dimensions5.33 x 0.52 x 8.26 inches
- ISBN-101609450612
- ISBN-13978-1609450618
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The main character has almost no redeemable qualities. She's narcissistic to the extreme, incapable of emotional development for the majority of the story, and totally socially unaware. Given how seemingly toxic she is, you half expect her family and friends to be pushovers or lacking intelligence, but every supporting character succeeds in interacting with the MC without coming across as anything less than capable in their own right.
It struck me as an odd concept for a story, but it's so well executed that almost immediately, despite the strangeness of trying to live your life according to an old adventure novel, you find yourself nodding and going 'okay, okay, I can see why the MC is the way she is now'. I especially like how you don't have to go out and find your own copy of Treasure Island to read in order to understand references. Any references made by the author are tied in to this books plot so well that even if you don't recognize the reference, you understand the point being made.
I usually go for fantasy stories because I love world building, so contemporary isn't the main bulk of my literary purchases, but this book was comedic gold for me and I'm so happy I bought it.
ARRRRRRRRRR!!!
PS: Any violence toward humans and animals that takes place in this novel is relegated to an imaginary world and was not tested on actual humans and animals. ;)
Recommended if you have a weird sense of humor.


