Treasure Island

Shiver me timbers!

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I thought the book was rather dull. (I'm sorry, younger self.) For all its romanticizing of pirates and would-be treasure hunters, the actual meat and potatoes of the story lacked any real world-building in my opinion. Now, I'm not going to sit here and criticize one of my favorite books as a child, but I can't get the information I learned from the book Black Flags, Blue Waters, and other similar real-world accounts of the crews who flew the Jolly Roger out of my head.

Pirates were not that glamorous and did not live great lives, as you can imagine. Most were caught, incarcerated, starved, or worse. So, even though a part of my nostalgia died, the heart of the quest was still intriguing. I just remember it being a bit more descriptive. ¯_(ツ)_/¯