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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe – Should you have the urge to read a sequel for one of the classic adventure novels, skip this one. His wife dies, so he leaves his children with an old woman to have another adventure with Friday…he’s a textbook example of idiocy. Go read the first one and save yourself from a gory and morally questionable part two! Happy Reading!
10 años más de Crusoe, la verdad que no es tan interesante como la primera aventura pero está muy bien representado el papel de viejo choto de 60 hinchapelotas y convertido a la religión cristiana, no lo recomiendo a menos que quieras recordar a tu abuelo facho
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
yeah im gonna be honest i skimmed the last half of this. but who can blame me really
adventurous
mysterious
relaxing
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Yes, there was a sequel to The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Not many people seem to read it, although it's not uncommon for the two books to be combined in one volume. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe came out later the same year (1719) and follows Crusoe's return the island, where he learns the fate of the English mutineers he left there and the Spanish castaways who joined them, as well as his subsequent adventures in Africa, Asia, and Russia.
The first part is honestly what I was most interested in. The bulk of it is the English ruffians and the Spanish fighting both each other and marauding cannibals. (Note: there is no archaeological evidence of cannibalism in the Caribbean and the indigenous peoples there have no oral history of such practices.) There's a lot of action and excitement involved, but what I really wanted to know more about were the "wives" the English men took from a neighboring tribe. Defoe's perspective here is weird. The women clearly had no choice in the matter: they were rescued prisoners and each man literally just chose the one he liked. Defoe (through Crusoe) admits the men were masters rather than husbands and his Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed explicitly opposes forced marriage and acknowledges that it's rape ("ravishment"). Yet a priest finally performs proper marriages and Will Akins gets born again and converts his wife to Christianity, so I guess it's supposed to be okay now? There's a whole other story here, but as with Friday's time in England, Defoe sadly does not expand on it.
Rape rears its ugly head again in Madagascar when a member of Crusoe's ship's crew drags off a local girl and is executed by the natives in retribution. They are subsequently massacred by the sailors over Crusoe's objections. Here Defoe has no problem calling a spade a spade and it's one of the few times Crusoe is ever in the right by today's standards. The whole thing is downright horrifying even with Defoe's stuffy, convoluted prose.
Defoe's writing unfortunately does drag down most of the book. Farther Adventures is certainly much more eventful than its predecessor, which is mostly Crusoe chilling on his island, but I suppose even in that era other people had written better adventure narratives. The imperialism, white supremacy, and Christian fanaticism that colored portions of the first book are dialed up to eleven here and pretty much dominate the entire second half. Crusoe frequently proclaims the civilizing effects of Christianity with no irony whatsoever, despite what happened in Madagascar and his own reaction to his countrymen's violence. His pure rage towards the existence of other races and creeds is straight out of the nightmares of H.P. Lovecraft. Given Crusoe's preexisting megalomaniac tendencies (he loves it when people are beholden to him for his generosity, Friday's case being the most egregious), I felt like I was reading Kurtz's origin story.
Honestly, I think the sequel is only worth reading for the updates on the island. The rest . . . blech.
Note: [b:The Return of Robinson Crusoe|7738332|The Return of Robinson Crusoe|Henry Treece|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1266243638l/7738332._SY75_.jpg|2590988] by Henry Treece is another sequel written in the 1950s. It's mostly a children's pirate story but Friday's character is fleshed out considerably and given a much larger role. I liked that one better.
The first part is honestly what I was most interested in. The bulk of it is the English ruffians and the Spanish fighting both each other and marauding cannibals. (Note: there is no archaeological evidence of cannibalism in the Caribbean and the indigenous peoples there have no oral history of such practices.) There's a lot of action and excitement involved, but what I really wanted to know more about were the "wives" the English men took from a neighboring tribe. Defoe's perspective here is weird. The women clearly had no choice in the matter: they were rescued prisoners and each man literally just chose the one he liked. Defoe (through Crusoe) admits the men were masters rather than husbands and his Treatise Concerning the Use and Abuse of the Marriage Bed explicitly opposes forced marriage and acknowledges that it's rape ("ravishment"). Yet a priest finally performs proper marriages and Will Akins gets born again and converts his wife to Christianity, so I guess it's supposed to be okay now? There's a whole other story here, but as with Friday's time in England, Defoe sadly does not expand on it.
Rape rears its ugly head again in Madagascar when a member of Crusoe's ship's crew drags off a local girl and is executed by the natives in retribution. They are subsequently massacred by the sailors over Crusoe's objections. Here Defoe has no problem calling a spade a spade and it's one of the few times Crusoe is ever in the right by today's standards. The whole thing is downright horrifying even with Defoe's stuffy, convoluted prose.
Defoe's writing unfortunately does drag down most of the book. Farther Adventures is certainly much more eventful than its predecessor, which is mostly Crusoe chilling on his island, but I suppose even in that era other people had written better adventure narratives. The imperialism, white supremacy, and Christian fanaticism that colored portions of the first book are dialed up to eleven here and pretty much dominate the entire second half. Crusoe frequently proclaims the civilizing effects of Christianity with no irony whatsoever, despite what happened in Madagascar and his own reaction to his countrymen's violence. His pure rage towards the existence of other races and creeds is straight out of the nightmares of H.P. Lovecraft. Given Crusoe's preexisting megalomaniac tendencies (he loves it when people are beholden to him for his generosity, Friday's case being the most egregious), I felt like I was reading Kurtz's origin story.
Honestly, I think the sequel is only worth reading for the updates on the island.
Spoiler
Friday dies at the end of that part anyway, and he's by far the more likeable, engaging character.Note: [b:The Return of Robinson Crusoe|7738332|The Return of Robinson Crusoe|Henry Treece|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1266243638l/7738332._SY75_.jpg|2590988] by Henry Treece is another sequel written in the 1950s. It's mostly a children's pirate story but Friday's character is fleshed out considerably and given a much larger role. I liked that one better.
THERE. IS. SO. MUCH. RAPE.
YOU CAN WRITE A GOOD STORY WITHOUT THAT MUCH RAPE.
YOU CAN WRITE A GOOD STORY WITHOUT THAT MUCH RAPE.
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
there's a lot of Christian supremacy in this novel for no reason at all , the fact that the main character was feeling relieved to be in Christian lands too, I was like "excuse me?".
I do like the adventures tht were detailed and it's interesting to look at the world in 1700s in this book so I do give the writer credit for that though.
adventurous
slow-paced