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Title: Treasure Island: A Novel by Justin Scott ISBN: 0-312-11368-4 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Reworking Of A Classic
Comment: OK, the reader below totally missed the point...

I know what you're thinking: this book was written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883, wasn't it? Well, yes, but this is an excellent "modern retelling" which moves the classic story to Long Island in the 1950s. The dubious souls are WWII vets and the treasure is Nazi gold. It's a masterful job of preserving the dialogue and structure, while modernizing. Great stuff.

Rating: 1
Summary: Washed-up re-tread
Comment: Justin Scott may well have been suffering writer's block or was washed ashore on one of the most lamebrained ideas this century. Why re-write Stevenson's story, which is a true classic?!? Scott sticks close enough to the plot which may cause many a reader to ask the question, "WHY BOTHER?". Mr. Scott may claim that the story has a timeless quality, but I beg to differ. One of the most endearing quality of the original story by Stevenson is the fact that the story was written about a time before the age of electricity, before exotic islands such as is the setting for the story could become tourist traps. So, what's in Nathan Scott's future? I'm afraid that the Jekyll & Hyde tale has been re-done too many times by now. But then, there is the EBB-TIDE...