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Completed	15 January 2009
Title	Treasure Island
Author	Robert Louis Stevenson
Published	1883
Quote	"It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck----nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out."
Review	This was one of those books that I'd heard about---and thought I knew---but had never read. As my brother is reading Robert Louis Stevenson to his 8-year-old boy, and as I've been staying at their home over Christmas, I thought I might give this book a read. My nephew assures me that the movie follows the book closely. So, now I finally understand about this famed character, Long John Silver, and all that Treasure Island entails. It's an interesting 18th century adventure story, well suited for young boys. And Aunt Jenny too.

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