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Title: Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, Deborah Kestel ISBN: 1-57765-690-3 Publisher: Abdo & Daughters Pub. Date: January, 2002 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.35 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (52 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutely Neccessary Reading
Comment: I've read this book over and over again, and believe me, it never gets boring! I love all the adventure and excitement of David and Alan's journey through the Highlands, and I like to imagine myself as part of the action. Even though telling the story through David's viewpoint made it interesting, he often became too preachy and self-concious for the reader to really sympathize with him. However, the book is still fast-paced, exciting, and has a bunch of great quotes that tend to pop up in my head when I'm least expecting it. Even if the rest of the book was utter rubbish, which it isn't, I think that having the character of Alan Breck Stewart in it would still make it almost readable. He has so many great qualities, and his faults make him even more believable. I liked all of the historical information and stuff about culture as well. Also, the characters' accents are wonderful. Even though some of the obscure Scottish words gave me trouble, I loved the dialects.
In closing, any person who loves adventures must read this! If nothing else, it will give you a lot of material to invent your own stories based on the plot, best if played in the backyard with your dad and siblings(preferably several obnoxious brothers, who will play any part as long as it involves running, screaming, and swordfights).
Rating: 5
Summary: My favorite book of all time
Comment: A family friend gave me this book as a present when I was in grade school. My parents started reading it to me, and although some of it was difficult to understand due to the dialect, I was enthralled by it. Eventually I began reading it on my own, then re-reading it again and again. It has become my favorite book of all time, and I must literally have read it at least a hundred times (I am now 54). I still re-read it several times every year.
Although the entire novel is excellent, my favorite part is the Highland journey from Mull to Edinburgh. David and Allen's encounters with the Highlanders, and the marvelous descriptions of the countryside are so vivid that the reader feels s/he is actually there. Of course, very few authors can match Stevenson's prose for sheer beauty and power.
I have also read the sequel, DAVID BALFOUR (aka CATRIONA) innumerable times, but have always found it a letdown after KIDNAPPED. Somehow it just doesn't have the same magic.
I should also say that the only filmed version of KIDNAPPED worth watching at all is the Disney production, which sticks fairly closely to the story (although it does take a few liberties). The recent made-for-cable version starring Armande Assante (available on video) is an abomination--not only was it filmed in Ireland instead of Scotland, but it completely alters the story, adding all sort of plots and subplots, as if Stevenson's story simply wasn't good enough. Stay away from it.
I envy anyone who is about to read KIDNAPPED for the first time.
Rating: 2
Summary: All Action!
Comment: Kidnapped is an awsome book because it's so alive. Almost everything you read is action. It's talks about when David Balfour goes to his fathers friend and finds out that he's his uncle! He gets on a boat and is sold to be killed. When the boat sinks and David is stranded on an island. This book is a favorite of mine because you can't put it down. Since all the action you have to keep reading to see what happends.
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Title: Treasure Island (Signet Classic) by Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0451527046 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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Title: The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson, N.C. Wyeth ISBN: 0684188775 Publisher: Atheneum Pub. Date: November, 1987 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain, John Seelye ISBN: 0140390839 Publisher: Puffin Pub. Date: October, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes by Lyle Miller, Judith Conaway ISBN: 0394850866 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers Pub. Date: 12 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss ISBN: 0440415942 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 13 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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