Treasure Island!!

i saw it as a school play last night (see adele-must-go thread), but haven't read it since i was like 11, and becz the wee kids in the play were all doing "accents", i cdn't understand three quarters of the story (including a single word LJS said all night)

no one fell over or ever forgot their words, it was quite professional almost :(

(i know the GONDAL romances that the brontes wrote for themselves when small had maps, but they weren't published)

It was great! Though I might find it rather creepy now after learning about Charles Crumb's total obsession with the original movie version (to the point where all the storylines of all the comic books he drew were about Treasure Island, and they get harder and harder to read...arrgh, I'm feeling disturbed just thinking about that part). Silver was such a great character though. And any book with a map is worth reading.

The Disney version is quite scary, I seem to remember, what w/ Black Spot, Blind Pugh and Robert Newton sweating and gurning away.

I can't think of abt the movie now without remembering that R. Crumb's brother Charles was unhealthily obsessed by little Bobby Driscoll as Jim Hawkins...

haha blind pew was grebt as well last night, he had little black shades on and was k-sinister, tho how does he die: this was v.unclear (eg i assume he was not landed on by a helicopter at night, which is what the SFX made it sound like)

I played Dr. Livesey in a school play of it when I was 14, it was great I had the time of my life and cultivated the posh old english stereotype character which later landed me the role of Pickwick in the Pickwick Papers, my other foray into acting at school. I always mean to try and act again, and maybe do something a bit more serious, but I never get around to it.

It's a great book I think, something about the villain not really being a villain that I like.

Aha, school memory, from when I was 111 or 12. We were told to rewrite some passage from another point of view. I chose a big pirate fite, obv, and rewrote it from the point of view of a spear-carrier (note: figurative) pirate who gets killed at the end of it. The teacher gave me a lecture explaining that the character couldn't have written his account because he was dead. A landmark in my declining respect for teachers, and indeed authority in general. (I wonder if he told others that the chances of most pirates being literate were remote?)