regshoe

Oooh, charts!

Was this actually marketed as a boys book, or did everyone just assume it was because Treasure Island had been?

I'm glad we agree on the objective best scene -- the sheer wrongness of wrong opinions re the best scene in the book took my breath away.

I continue to be skeeved by the reviewers celebrating how there are no women in the book. (Girl cooties, much?) I'm also a bit skeeved by the conflation of "women in the book" with "romance in the book", and also by their insistence that the only kind of love is heterosexual love -- how does this story even work if Alan and Davy don't love each other? But I suppose if you don't see their love for each other as one of the underpinning gears on which the book turns, then the quarrel in the heather would mean very little to you... *sigh*