In the comments I will provide a thesis statement regarding my thoughts on the book, followed by several corroborating paragraphs, and ending with a summary paragraph and conclusion
@f00l Silly person, you are thinking of The Blue Lagoon. I am not sure if it was a book or not. Island of the Blue Dolphins is about a girl who is left behind on an island and lives alone for approximately 20 years. She tames a wild dog and builds a shelter out of whale ribs (if I recall correctly). I thought it was the greatest book in the world that wasn’t part of the Chronicles of Prydain when I was 10.
PS You are not thinking of Endless Love or Brenda Starr either, I know.
PPS According to Wikipedia, Scott O’Dell didn’t realize it was a young adult book that he had written until Maud Lovelace (author of the Betsy books) told him. This fascinates me.
@f00l I am a monster. Well, I kind of knew you were joking, but apparently this was too important. The same thing happened once with a guy who said that the best Styx song is “Mr. Roboto,” and I was like, NO. I KNOW YOU’RE NOT SERIOUS, BUT NO. I was embarrassed but couldn’t stop.
@f00l It’s Too Much Time On My Hands and I will mercilessly browbeat anyone who disagrees until they give up in disgust and/or confusion. It generally doesn’t take that long because I have not actually met anyone who cares particularly. I am always surprised by my vehemence, as I am not now and never have been a big Styx fan.
PS I reread Taran Wanderer as an adult and was struck by how it had probably sparked my interest in crafts (and belief that making crappy things is fine).
@PlacidPenguin I get where you’re coming from and appreciate your moxie, but do not see how you can argue that Too Much Time On My Hands is not the best Styx song without providing a different Styx song. Also I was exaggerating, as I am fine with people holding objectively incorrect, morally inferior opinions.
@jqubed I thought maybe this was a book about the ship. Was disappointed. The book was the fourth hit on Google. The first ones were about The Curse Of The Black Pearl.
At first I thought they meant The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Which I did have to read in school. Had to Google The Black Pearl, similar theme, pearls are bad.
@Fuzzalini I thought the same thing! Seems very similar, they even took place in the same location. I remember liking the book quite a bit. Never had to read “The Black Pearl” though.
Was the Black Pearl only required reading on the coast? I went to school in Missouri so we had to read Mark Twain. Then of course a field trip to Hannibal (his home town) & a cave tour. What did you guys do, trip to the beach?
I needed a Black Pearl for an enchantment or an alchemy recipe and I was too cheap to buy it on the auction house (60 gold, give me a break!), so I spent a few hours farming Naga in Feralas before I realized that the drop rate was abysmally low and maybe 60 gold wasn’t that unreasonable after all.
In 7th grade, our English teacher was out sick for a month. Half way through, they just had us all listen to books on tape and write our feelings for credit. The Black Pearl was one of them. It stuck with me because none of us understood half of what was happening due to the combination of poor sound quality and the narrator being a drunk frat boy trying to fake a Spanish accent. Fun times.
@mediocrebot said:
It was required reading in middle school. Correction, it was required if you didn’t want to fail the attached assignments and tests.
@elimanningface It wasn’t required for me, tho other books were. I somehow managed to pass that English class without reading several of those books.
The main thing I remember from one I did read, Jaws, was the use of the word FUCK (or fuckin) as an infix (vs prefix or suffix) in the word absofukinglutely: https://books.google.ca/books?id=mvkMTRDZC5QC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=absofuckinlutely+jaws&source=bl&ots=8FwRwKVBxb&sig=a-yS4PFbAwaXzC192GxnxEhtwvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwivsPGGjPHTAhVH4iYKHSyHAX0Q6AEIIjAA#v=onepage&q=absofuckinlutely jaws&f=false
No, but I read Island of the Blue Dolphins approximately 1000 times SHOULD HAVE BEEN A CHOICE.
@mossygreen
Is that the book that stars Brooke Shields? Or am I thinking of the wrong book?
@f00l Silly person, you are thinking of The Blue Lagoon. I am not sure if it was a book or not. Island of the Blue Dolphins is about a girl who is left behind on an island and lives alone for approximately 20 years. She tames a wild dog and builds a shelter out of whale ribs (if I recall correctly). I thought it was the greatest book in the world that wasn’t part of the Chronicles of Prydain when I was 10.
PS You are not thinking of Endless Love or Brenda Starr either, I know.
PPS According to Wikipedia, Scott O’Dell didn’t realize it was a young adult book that he had written until Maud Lovelace (author of the Betsy books) told him. This fascinates me.
@mossygreen
I knew Blue Dolphins was another book, was just attempting to make a joke.
Somehow, I don’t think I read The Black Pearl.
@mossygreen Chronicles of Prydain are everything!!!
@f00l I am a monster. Well, I kind of knew you were joking, but apparently this was too important. The same thing happened once with a guy who said that the best Styx song is “Mr. Roboto,” and I was like, NO. I KNOW YOU’RE NOT SERIOUS, BUT NO. I was embarrassed but couldn’t stop.
@Bassoonatic Enthusiastically agreed!
@mossygreen
So, what is the best Styx song? Your opinion, pls.
PS loved Prydian when I was a kid.
@f00l It’s Too Much Time On My Hands and I will mercilessly browbeat anyone who disagrees until they give up in disgust and/or confusion. It generally doesn’t take that long because I have not actually met anyone who cares particularly. I am always surprised by my vehemence, as I am not now and never have been a big Styx fan.
PS I reread Taran Wanderer as an adult and was struck by how it had probably sparked my interest in crafts (and belief that making crappy things is fine).
@mossygreen
No idea what you are talking about, but I am stubborn and can argue about the most petty things until people give up.
@PlacidPenguin I get where you’re coming from and appreciate your moxie, but do not see how you can argue that Too Much Time On My Hands is not the best Styx song without providing a different Styx song. Also I was exaggerating, as I am fine with people holding objectively incorrect, morally inferior opinions.
@mossygreen
In order to participate in an argument like this, it would probably help if I knew who or what ‘six’ is/was.
But any argument is like that:
One can’t argue against a particular thing in any given topic without giving an alternative.
@PlacidPenguin Yeah, I can see your conundrum.
Wasn’t that a Pirates of the Caribbean movie?
@jqubed
Started thinking that you were thinking about porpoises, but then I shifted that thought to dolphins.
Flipper.
@jqubed I thought maybe this was a book about the ship. Was disappointed. The book was the fourth hit on Google. The first ones were about The Curse Of The Black Pearl.
At first I thought they meant The Pearl by John Steinbeck. Which I did have to read in school. Had to Google The Black Pearl, similar theme, pearls are bad.
@Fuzzalini I thought the same thing! Seems very similar, they even took place in the same location. I remember liking the book quite a bit. Never had to read “The Black Pearl” though.
Was the Black Pearl only required reading on the coast? I went to school in Missouri so we had to read Mark Twain. Then of course a field trip to Hannibal (his home town) & a cave tour. What did you guys do, trip to the beach?
@twofivefive
That cave is the best.
I needed a Black Pearl for an enchantment or an alchemy recipe and I was too cheap to buy it on the auction house (60 gold, give me a break!), so I spent a few hours farming Naga in Feralas before I realized that the drop rate was abysmally low and maybe 60 gold wasn’t that unreasonable after all.
I didn’t read the book but I worked at a San Francisco startup called Black Pearl at the end of the first dot-com bubble.
In 7th grade, our English teacher was out sick for a month. Half way through, they just had us all listen to books on tape and write our feelings for credit. The Black Pearl was one of them. It stuck with me because none of us understood half of what was happening due to the combination of poor sound quality and the narrator being a drunk frat boy trying to fake a Spanish accent. Fun times.
My uncle’s name is Scott O’Dell also so I have read every book by him (the author - not my uncle).
No, I didn’t.