Meeting: January 22, 2014, Meghan's apartment
When a college graduate
with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper; gift wrapper;
laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis
Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the
timid design of her life. When had she ever dreamed a scheme? When had
she ever done a foolish, overbold act? When had she ever, like Jim
Hawkins, broke from her friends, raced for the beach, stolen a boat,
killed a man, and eliminated an obstacle that stood in the way of her
getting a hunk of gold?
Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence and horn-blowing. Accompanied by her mother, her sister, and a hostile Amazon parrot that refuses to follow the script, our heroine embarks on a domestic adventure more frightening than anything she'd originally planned.
Treasure Island!!! is the story of a ferocious obsession, told by an original voice-intelligent, perverse, relentlessly self- extricating, and funny.
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We're all going to talk about how much we hate this book at our meeting. So I will just say that this book had SOME hints of dry and simple humor that I was able to laugh at. Case in point:
"My mother was clearing the table. 'Death does give you a different perspective, doesn't it? It shows you just how trivial some-' But here she picked up the butter dish, and seeing that someone had cut into the butter with a crumb-laden knife, she frowned, and began to shave away the grubby end with a fork."
(page 138)
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