Kidnapped

I had an edition of this when I was wee that said ‘A Boy's Book' on the cover, and that is exactly how it reads - as a book written for boys in the 1900's. I've seen it described as swashbuckling, but my swashes remain firmly unbuckled. I wish I'd loved it more because my Dad adored it, and I definitely caught glimpses of him in these pages, but it just didn't do it for me. After the first third or so I was bored, and the only thing that kept me going were the descriptions of the Scottish landscape and the few encounters with its people. I kept having to check in with the Wikipedia description of the plot because the writing was often so wandering I ended up completely lost. I'll give Jekyll and Hide a go and see if I get on any better with that but I suspect RLS's time has passed for me.