"If the conduct of the men had been alarming in the boat, it became truly threatening when they had come aboard. They lay about the deck growling together in talk. The slightest order was received with a black look, and grudgingly and carelessly obeyed. Even the honest hands must have caught the infection, for there was not one man aboard to mend another. Mutiny, it was plain, hung over us like a thunder-cloud." (99-0)

Stevenson, Robert Louis. _Treasure Island_. London: The Aldine Press, 1957.

I donno; I just liked it. I'm starting to see why Stevenson is upheld and is in our canon. I mean, I appreciate that the book is good and that I like him but now I'm starting to see where he gets acclaim from the literary and lay world.
I remember having that moment with Shakespeare and I think it was in a third-year English course called Shakespearean Receptions. THAT was a good one with an excellent prof and a T.A. who looked like Jim Carrey.