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4.02 AVERAGE
4.02 AVERAGE
adventurous
hopeful
medium-paced
adventurous
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
slow-paced
The style of this book was very conversational which personally made it more of a chore to read - I would like to revisit this book as it wasn’t the story I was disinterested in
Firstly what I learned from this book is that sometimes Dad is right and I owe him an apology. He said I would like this and find it engrossing, I doubted him afterall the very fact that the book was written tells you that he did escape.
Despite knowing that eventually Papillon would succeed in his attempt to escape I found myself routing for him with each attempt,even though I knew that most of these attempts were doomed to failure and that it would only be with the ninth attempt that he would finally succeed.
I actually found some of the other people in this story far more interesting than Papillon himself, like the lepers he meets during his first attempt who give him food,shelter and money to try and also sell him a boat and gun at discount prices to try and help him get to the South American mainland so that maybe he can have the freedom that because of their leprosy they could never have even if they were to escape.
Thank you Dad for the recommendation.
Despite knowing that eventually Papillon would succeed in his attempt to escape I found myself routing for him with each attempt,even though I knew that most of these attempts were doomed to failure and that it would only be with the ninth attempt that he would finally succeed.
I actually found some of the other people in this story far more interesting than Papillon himself, like the lepers he meets during his first attempt who give him food,shelter and money to try and also sell him a boat and gun at discount prices to try and help him get to the South American mainland so that maybe he can have the freedom that because of their leprosy they could never have even if they were to escape.
Thank you Dad for the recommendation.
adventurous
emotional
informative
medium-paced
Eh... An "alright" adventure tale at best. The characters, plot and dialogue felt oddly sterile for the subject of the novel, I was expecting something grittier, something more real. Hilarious that this is classified as non-fiction/autobiographical. Wasn't bad per se but I feel like this book leans more masculine YA.. not for me.
To be completely honest, this was one of the most boring books I've ever read. I found it difficult to finish it. It was so incredibly lengthy and I found Charrière quite annoying and cocky. It seemed like he was just lucky a lot of the times and I have no idea why.