I haven't read it since I was a kid. I'd forgotten how good it was. I'm about halfway through, Jim (aaar Jim lard) has just met Ben Gunn.
Treasure Island
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, Dec 26 2010 07:59 PM
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Posted 26 December 2010 - 07:59 PM
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Posted 26 December 2010 - 09:14 PM
QUOTE (Trojan @ Dec 26 2010, 07:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I haven't read it since I was a kid. I'd forgotten how good it was. I'm about halfway through, Jim (aaar Jim lard) has just met Ben Gunn.
I remember reading it as a kid and loving it....so many years ago
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Posted 27 December 2010 - 09:53 AM
Robert Louis Stevenson is a wonderful storyteller. 
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Posted 27 December 2010 - 10:25 AM
strangely enough I'm just re-reading Kidnapped, I'd forgotten how good this one is.
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Posted 27 December 2010 - 10:30 AM
QUOTE (Tiny Tim @ Dec 26 2010, 09:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I remember reading it as a kid and loving it....so many years ago
Sure it wasn't the pictures that got you?
Caught by a feckin speed camera. try these I did and it saved me a heap o money and penalty points.
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Posted 27 December 2010 - 10:39 AM
QUOTE (MILLWARD IS A GURNER @ Dec 27 2010, 10:30 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Sure it wasn't the pictures that got you?
It's funny you should say that. The first version I read as a kid was a "Classics Comics" version. They did versions of all great stories with pictures - Robin Hood, Ivanhoe, Joan of Arc and Treasure Island are some that come to mind.
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Posted 27 December 2010 - 11:07 AM
He was much loved in Samoa, where he lived in his final years and was known to the people there as 'Tusitala', the teller of stories.
On the day of his funeral both sides of the driveway and all the way up to his final resting place on the top of the mountain was lined with local Samoan people. His body in the coffin was passed hand by hand all the way up through this line of devoted local people until it reached its destination on Mount Vaea.
The trail leading to the location of Stevenson’s grave is known as 'The Road of the Loving Hearts'. At the top of the mountain is Robert Louis Stevenson's grave, bearing the inscription.
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse that you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
On the day of his funeral both sides of the driveway and all the way up to his final resting place on the top of the mountain was lined with local Samoan people. His body in the coffin was passed hand by hand all the way up through this line of devoted local people until it reached its destination on Mount Vaea.
The trail leading to the location of Stevenson’s grave is known as 'The Road of the Loving Hearts'. At the top of the mountain is Robert Louis Stevenson's grave, bearing the inscription.
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse that you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
"Journalists are meant to be neutral, for God's sake." - Stephen 'Wiggy' Jones
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
"Perhaps it would be better that future criticism of sports be made on the narrow basis of what is being discussed, without reference to other sports, unless those sports offer a solution to the problem in hand." - Brian 'Pigface' Moore
"What happens in rugby union? A player takes the ball, moves forward a little and gets tackled. A whole load of players then roll about on the ground. Pheep! The referee gives a penalty." - Simon Barnes
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Posted 28 December 2010 - 06:18 PM
When I started at Grammar School the first thing our English teacher did was order us all to read Treasure Island. 'Finest boys' adventure story ever written,' he insisted.
I'd already read it, but for most of us our real memory is of the film version with Robert Newton's marvellously OTT portrayal of John Silver.
'Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Jim Lad.'
'Them as dies'll be the lucky ones.'
I must get hold of the DVD.
I'd already read it, but for most of us our real memory is of the film version with Robert Newton's marvellously OTT portrayal of John Silver.
'Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Jim Lad.'
'Them as dies'll be the lucky ones.'
I must get hold of the DVD.
And when they found our shadows
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death
Grouped around the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data on their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death
No tears to cry no feelings left
This species has amused itself to death
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Posted 28 December 2010 - 06:48 PM
QUOTE (Stan Doffarf @ Dec 28 2010, 06:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
When I started at Grammar School the first thing our English teacher did was order us all to read Treasure Island. 'Finest boys' adventure story ever written,' he insisted.
I'd already read it, but for most of us our real memory is of the film version with Robert Newton's marvellously OTT portrayal of John Silver.
'Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Jim Lad.'
'Them as dies'll be the lucky ones.'
I must get hold of the DVD.
I'd already read it, but for most of us our real memory is of the film version with Robert Newton's marvellously OTT portrayal of John Silver.
'Aaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, Jim Lad.'
'Them as dies'll be the lucky ones.'
I must get hold of the DVD.
Apparently the naval type bloke in "The Simpsons" voice is based on Robert Newton in "Treasure Island" There was also a spin off series with Robert Newton as Long John Silver. I think most of the aaar's and pirate talk generally come from his portrayal of Silver.
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Posted 28 December 2010 - 07:19 PM
Sweet. It's free on the kindle, will give it a go. In the mood for a good yarn.
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Posted 28 December 2010 - 07:46 PM
Treasure Island is simply one of the best adventure stories ever written! I remember listening enthralled as my father read it to me when I was a young lad, eagerly awaiting the next nights instalment!
It was also a great pleasure to share the same story (and many others) with my own children as they grew up too.
There are few pleasures in life to compare with a good book!
It was also a great pleasure to share the same story (and many others) with my own children as they grew up too.
There are few pleasures in life to compare with a good book!
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