A review by nuttyrachy
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

2.0

I started this audio book with my 3 year old son on our regular journeys in the car. He recently started pre school, which we walk to, so we've lost the need for a regular audio book to listen to together. I tried to carry on with the story to finish it alone, but I realised that I hadn't really followed anything in the story so far. I had no connection to any of the characters, didn't know who most of them were in relation to eachother, and was getting lost in the definition of types of ships and their parts etc. This felt too detailed to be a children's book! So after reaching 70% of the way through, I decided finishing it wasn't really going to achieve anything, but waste my time.

I think I'm coming to the realisation that classics maybe aren't for me as I never seem to get on with the writing styles of their times.