Silver: Return to Treasure Island (Audiobook)

from adpaton

Some writers [like PD James] take unpardonable liberties with the classics when they attempt a sequel but former poet laureate Andrew Motion strikes just the right note and fans of Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson's most popular work, will not be disappointed. Silver is set a generation al...

from DLMorrese

A sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island? Really? When I saw this on the shelf at my local library, I thought it takes a pretty competent and gutsy writer to try that. Well, why not? I picked it up, took it home, and read it over the course of the last few evenings. This is what I tho...

from Twink

Miss Spicer was 'my' librarian when I was young. Her dark dresses, severe bun and black glasses gave her a stern air which definitely deterred anyone from running and talking loudly in the library. But, it was she who fed and fostered my love of reading. I always asked her what I should read next...

from Ma_Washigeri

Except it wasn't ok. This is pretty tedious. I never like being told what to make of a character's actions. For a hundred and fifty pages Jim Hawkins (junior) tells us things like 'she looked at the ground so I thought she must be sad' and 'I am older now but that was how I saw it'. Probably the ...

from Ma_Washigeri

Except it wasn't ok. This is pretty tedious. I never like being told what to make of a character's actions. For a hundred and fifty pages Jim Hawkins (junior) tells us things like 'she looked at the ground so I thought she must be sad' and 'I am older now but that was how I saw it'. Probably the ...