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David McK (3557 KP) rated Treasure Island in Books

Jan 28, 2019  
Treasure Island
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson | 2015 | Children
8
7.8 (13 Ratings)
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I'm going to start with a shocker: I'd never actually read Robert Louis Stevenson's classic before.

Oh, I was familiar with the story - who isn't? - but as for actually reading the novel? Nope.

Indeed, the closest I had ever come was screen adaptations of it, with The Muppets version in particular springing to mind! As such, I never really had the inclination to go to the source material - after all, I've seen it, so why read it?

However, I finally got round to actually doing so in late 2013 and, you know what? I did actually quite enjoy it!

I'm aware that it started the whole buried treasure/peg-legged Pirates genre of stories, and now I know why :)
  
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Laurie Sheck recommended The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson in Books (curated)

 
The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson
The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson
R.W. Franklin | 2021
(0 Ratings)
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"Early in our marriage my husband gave me The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R.W. Franklin and published by Harvard University Press. What an amazement to see her poems in her own hand, intact in their radical, astonished beauty without the many editorial interventions made after her death which silently “corrected” and altered her grammar, idiosyncratic capitalization, punctuation, and much else. I could even see the alternate word-choices she left on the page—that feeling of the mind in motion. Recently, New Directions published The Gorgeous Nothings, which beautifully reproduces her late envelope writings and includes as well a photo of the small pencil she carried in the pocket of her dress—another book to treasure"

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Zoe Saldana recommended The Goonies (1985) in Movies (curated)

 
The Goonies (1985)
The Goonies (1985)
1985 | Adventure, Comedy
8.5 (87 Ratings)
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"The third one I would have to say is The Goonies. [giggles] What isn’t there about it to love? Trying to find a treasure to save your parents when you’re seeing them struggle — which f**king kid wouldn’t understand that or wanna do that, you know? [On who she identified with:] I think it was Sean Astin’s character, the little dreamer. That monologue when they’re all on the well and getting ready to go up and he’s like, “Chester Copperpot!” My sisters and I get together and we drink wine and we watch The Goonies and we quote it… “The next time we see sky, it’ll be in another town!” I love The Goonies."

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Scott Glenn recommended The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) in Movies (curated)

 
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
1948 | Action, Classics, Drama
8.5 (2 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"I remember one time, Robert Altman asked me what I thought the greatest movie that I had ever seen was, and I said Citizen Kane. Bob correctly said “Oh bulls–t, everybody says [in mocking voice] ‘Citizen Kane, Citizen Kane.’ Do you really feel that?” And I went, “No, not really.” [laughs] He said, “Give me an honest answer,” and I said Treasure of Sierra Madre. He thought for a minute and he said, “I can’t believe you said that. That is, for my money, the most perfect film ever made.” And I said “Why?” He said it was because “There’s not one frame that I would cut from it, or one frame I would add to it.”"

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