Treasure Island

[Garfieldo]

In honor of the new site, I've started rereading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. It's been ages since I last read it, so I don't really remember all that happens. I'm up to about the fourth chapter.

What do you guys think of the book?

If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers are burried Gold,
And all the old romance, told
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
the wiser youngsters of today:

- So be it, and fall on! If not,
If studious youth no longer crave,
His ancient appetites forgot,
Kingston, or Ballantyyne the brave,
Or Cooper of the wood and wave:
So be it, also! And may I
and all my pirates share the grave
where these and their creations lie!