Fin.

I finished Treasure Island pretty early on in January, and then read Enter a Murderer and finished Rebecca, so this final Treasure Island post might be a bit scattered. (Both of those books come highly recommended, by the way.)

I rather liked the ending. Even though Long John kept switching sides and lily-footing about. (I actually don't even know if "lily-footing" is the right word...but it conveys my meaning?) Which was a bit lame, seeing as until he was shown to be terrified constantly he was FREAKING AWESOME, and then he just became super nifty. It's a step down.

I'd like to know if it really is possible to man a schooner with just a maimed captain, cabin boy, doctor, pretty much useless squire, and one partially-able seaman. Did that seem far-fetched to anyone else? Or the part when Jim is sailing the boat to the North end of the island?

Speaking of Jim sailing the ship, it seemed a bit out of character when he killed Israel Hands and had zero regret. Granted, he'd been hardened by being on the island some and it was basically self-defence and Israel was a stinker: but still! He shoots him and pushes the other dead guy overboard and looks at their bodies for awhile and is all, "Whatever." What happened to the old, kind-hearted Jim? The one who was concerned for his mother, etc? It seemed a sudden and unprecedented change.

The end of the book was well done, I think. No dilly-dallying. They got off the island and Stevenson wrapped it up nicely.

Speaking of Stevenson, did you know that he died of a brain hemorrhage in the Samoan Islands?