Thought Treasure Island to be the better of the two tales, but also the more simple and straightforward. Neither measure up to The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, but both were enjoyable in their own right. ( )

Read cover to cover in a week. Kidnapped was 8 out of 10; a real pleasure to read. Just enough of a swashbuckler to be a rollicking read, not too chock-full of history and dialect to bog you down. (i.e., Scott's "Waverley".) Treasure Island was about 6 of 10. It lost a little by being narrated by a child...though that was the entire point of its conception - piracy from the POV of a 12 year old. Both books were great fun to read, and very rewarding, especially "Kidnapped". ( )

Die Schatzinsel war gut zu lesen. Allerdings hat mir der Film besser gefallen.
Die Entführung ist ganz gut, weil man viel über die schottische Landschaft liest, aber ich habe es nicht ganz zu ende gelesen. ( )