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Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

Kidnapped: Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Miserable
Review: Stevenson was arguably the world's first thriller-writer. His literature addressed no moral issues, satirized no social class, or explained any personal philosophy. He was out to give readers a good time. But as anyone who has read thrillers knows, the best thriller-writers are only the ones that slip the least. No one can write edge-of-your-seat thrillers every single time. So these inevitable slips (for example, Michael Crichton's The Terminal Man), when they come, are often just terrible.

Kidnapped was a terrible book. The most rewarding facet of the book is the minor lesson it gives you in archaic Scottish dialect. It was, by far, the worst experience I have ever had in reading a book. If you want Stevenson to deliver, check out Treasure Island or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Don't bother with this one.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It has great literary writing, and word choice is wonderful.
Review: It has a wonderful story that is full of feelings and descriptions. You can really put yourself in the character's situation. It is a suspenseful book that once your into it, it's hard to put it down. Stevenson has done a stupendous job!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: This book was not interesting enough.
Review: This book was about a kid named Davie, that is going to see his father's old house "The House of Shaws" in a city that and he has to take a boat to get there. When he got to the house his uncle was there witch he has never met. His uncle fed him and then put him in a room and locked him in there.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: I liked the book
Review: I liked the book. I liked this book because it had adventures. You didn't know if it would have a happy ending of not until the very last page. The pictures were good, too. This book was cool. And I recommend it to you.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This is good if you want a quick and fun adventure novel
Review: David Balfour is orphaned at eighteen and has to deal with alot of stuff for someone his age in fact his adventures would test anyone. It and it's sequel Catriona are very good books.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A suspenseful adventure story where justice triumphs
Review: As a child I loved Kidnapped and read it more than once.David's adventures through Scotland are exciting-and David learns values of friendship. They say,"Fate choses our relatives.We choose our friends."Fate chose a bad relative in David's miserly uncle Ebeneezer-but David chose a loyal and true friend in Alan Breck,who helps him get his rightful heritage.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: EVERYONE IN THE WORLD SHOULD READ IT
Review: I LIKE THE BOOK BECUASE ITS A MYSTERY AND ITS A GOOD VERY GOOD BOOK

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Well deserving of even more than five stars!
Review: This book was as exciting as it appears to be. Kidnapped is about a boy named David who's parents die, leaving him to live with his uncle. At first appearing to be kind, his uncle sells him as a slave to try to gain David's inheritance from his parents. He escapes, but almost has an early death when the ship gets desroyed in a storm. Now it is David all on his own until he meets the Scottish doctor who becomes his friend in Scotland. After a year or two, he goes back to his uncle's in England. His uncle dies from a fatal fall from atop a balcony.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: to hard
Review: I think this book was to hard to read. It was to much of real english.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A swashbuckling adventure story
Review: This book written by a master storyteller,relates to all your sences. It has everthing Suspence,adventure,courage,treachery and many more twists and turns to keep you in total rapture as you turn each page. You are taken on a rollercoaster of events,and transported back in time to Scotlands bloody past. A brilliant read.


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