Kidnapped (Scholastic Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Book Reviews of Kidnapped (Scholastic Classics)
Book Review: Kidnapped By Robert Louis Stevenson
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very wonderful book. When David Balfours father dies his his greedy uncle tries to get all the money of his fathers. So he plots to kill David. His uncle has him on a boat to the American Colonies to have David be a slave. On the way the boat is shipwrecked. He becomes friends with the only survivor a rugged Highlander from Scottland named Alan Breck Stewart. They plan a rebellion to claim Davids fortune from his greedy uncle.Book Review: kidnapped
Summary: 5 Stars
Kidnapped (Scholastic Classics)
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Book Review: Pretty Good Book
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a big fan of Robert Louis Stevenson as opposed to Charles Dickens or something like that. His books have a reasonable length and they are full of adventure and easy to follow.
This book had a fairly simple premise and was not as exciting or memorable as Treasure Island and not as fascinating as the Dr. Jekyll ad Mr Hyde narrative, but it was good and simple. I remember this book as a kid, maybe in fourth grade that when he was in the brig and shipwrecked, and headed for slavery I stopped reading because I thought it was all to dark.
But this time around I found the tale a bit more amusing. I guess a lot of this story is a story about finding maturity through hardship. Its hard for me to say that it's a coming of age story as I read somewhere. The moral of the story is not so clear, since the character doesn't really mature too much in terms of voice or role relative to Uncle or Alan. Instead his hardship, sort of grants him some reasonable part of his inheritance, but nothing to great, just something to live a normal life by.
I liked this book. It took me only about 5 or six hours to read the entire book. It never got overbearing and it realised what it was for.
Book Review: IS IT JUST ME?
Summary: 3 Stars
I helped my son read this book for summer reading. Is it just me, or is this "classic" a painstaking book to read. Sure the story itself is somewhat interesting, but reading the dialect and trying to understand and define some of the gaelic words was tiresome. I would say after reading some of the words, "WHAT DID HE SAY?". Some of the words were not in the glossary at the back of the book. I thought this writer needs to learn to breath, with all the commas used to connect his run on sentences. I was tired by the time I read one sentence. While I was reading this with my son, I was thinking that the school needs to select a better book for any future summer reading! Save your time from this "classic" drudge and go out and rent the DVD. It makes the story A LOT more interesting and follows the book to the end. Sorry, perhaps I learned that I'm just not a fan of Mr Stevenson's books.Book Review: Pretty Good
Summary: 3 Stars
I was forced to read this book by school but I have to admit it was pretty good. It definitly isn't the best book I have ever read but it acually was worth reading. It was surprising but sometimes I didn't understand what was happening. I liked it plus the book was really cheap and was delievered really fast. I rate it a good book to read!
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