[ SECRET POST #3581 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3581 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are people out there who do not know the story of Treasure Island?

#Farnsworth.gif

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Well... I don't know it... I know of Treasure Island, but never read it, dunno what happens in it. I've gotten the impression it shows up in the required reading piles of a lot of American (?) schools. Can anyone confirm?

[kallanda_lee]

I can vouch for it not being mandatory reading in Europe. My granddad liked it, so I was read parts as a kid, and I saw the old black-and-white movie ages ago, so i'm vaguely familiar with it, but I can't say I know everything that happens.

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AYRT
I'm an European and I don't think I know anyone from my country who has read it. I think I saw like 10 minutes of the Muppet version once, but that's about it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, another European here, and Treasure Island never came up during my school years, either though as I used to have a children's audiobook of it when I was little. I never got around to reading the original book, so my knowledge of the plot is based on a fuzzy recollection of a heavily abridged version.

It might also have been somewhat sanitized for children's consumption, but certainly not as much as you'd expect; I vividly remember a fairly realistic illustration of a sailor bleeding to death from a gunshot wound.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm Norwegian and I have read it twice AND listened to the audio book.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I'm Australian and I only know the approximate gist of it from a few different movies, like an old 70s "Treasure Planet"-type live action movie I once caught on TV, the cartoon "Treasure Planet" and probably the Muppet movie, I'm less sure about that one.

[thistlechaser]

I'm from the US and I never read that book. We weren't required to in school, and I was never in the right place at the right time to pick it up. I have nothing against reading it, but my To Read pile currently has 160+ books in it, so...

[(Anonymous)]

It's been adapted a lot and it's widely read just as a kid's classic, I think.

Also it's a British book, not an American one

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
Oh I know it's a British book, I just seem to know a lot of American people who have read it at school, so that's where I got the impression.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm american and I never heard of anyone reading it in school. Maybe it's regional? But I saw the Wishbone episode and the Muppet version and Treasure Planet.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT
Huh. Must have been a regional thing/weird coincidence.

Oh! I've seen Treasure Planet! It's been so long though, I don't remember the plot. :D

[(Anonymous)]

+1 from another American, on everything (<3 Wishbone). I wish we'd been assigned Treasure Island in school, maybe instead of some other books.

[herpymcderp]

It was never part of my childhood curriculum in the Canadalands, but I did read it considering it's one of those classics that tended to come in pirate/seafaring anthologies (along with the likes of Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe etc.) and the like.

At least that's where I recall getting my hands on it when I was a tiny thing.

[kallanda_lee]

On an unrelated note, I actually saw a Captain Canada cosplay yesterday.

[herpymcderp]

OH MY GOD. I WISH I WAS THERE TO WITNESS.

[kallanda_lee]

Can you see this?: https://www.facebook.com/photograhica/photos/a.741357046002706.1073741853.508678602603886/741357112669366/?type=3&theater

[herpymcderp]

Sure can lol. Omg that's pretty amazing. That shield tho.

[kallanda_lee]

The shields were amazing.

[(Anonymous)]

Former Midwestern school kid. I remember reading it in school (5th grade?) and we definitely watched the Muppet's Treasure Island at least twice.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really, no. Granted, I was a schoolkid back in the 80s/90s so I can't vouch for everyone but in the midwest it was more along the lines of a children's classic that was publicized but never required school readings.

[ibbity]

You should read it1 It's actually a really fun book and surprisingly emotionally complex at times for a children's pirate story.

[(Anonymous)]

Seconded.

If you like it you can expand with Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier and Moonfleet by J. Meade Falkner.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know it. I read the book when I was ~10 years old, I've never seen a film adaptation, and at this point I've forgotten the entire story.

Bonus confession: Literally the only thing I remember from Kidnapped is the dueling bagpipes scene.