Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson

It's hard to believe that I've made it this long without reading this classic adventure rag. It delivered everything it promised - danger, excitement, treasure, adventure... Sure, the characters are caricatures, but at the end of the day this novel was written to inspire kids to be pirates, and it certainly inspired me. The basis of a lot of pirate-lore (the pirate, shiver me timbers, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum...), who hasn't wanted to go on a quest to find buried treasure? Sure, Long John Silver is a scoundrel, but would we have him any other way?