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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I've always wanted to read this book and now I am. Defoe wrote this around the same time as Austen wrote Pride & Prejudice, so I am interested in comparing their writing styles. Meghan inspires me to get back to reading the classics!
Sad some people can't stop and realise, "Uh, maybe I should read this knowing it was written by someone that lived hundreds of years ago..."
I, for one, loved it. Sure, I read it when I was but a child of ten, but I absolutely gobbled it all up.
The hyper-description was great. Amazing. I loved it. I somehow never became bored or thought, "Damn, you're dragging."
I liked how focused it was in all the mundane little things. How in detail it described everything the protagonist was doing around the island.
It's been 14 years. I still remember how he planted wheat, made bread, and paraded dead birds' bodies around his growing crops to keep theliving birds away.
I was fascinated at his actions, his thinking, his decisions. I was engrossed.
Very, very few books have ever done this to me. For this reason, Robinson Crusoe will always hold a place of honour in my mind.
I, for one, loved it. Sure, I read it when I was but a child of ten, but I absolutely gobbled it all up.
The hyper-description was great. Amazing. I loved it. I somehow never became bored or thought, "Damn, you're dragging."
I liked how focused it was in all the mundane little things. How in detail it described everything the protagonist was doing around the island.
It's been 14 years. I still remember how he planted wheat, made bread, and paraded dead birds' bodies around his growing crops to keep the
I was fascinated at his actions, his thinking, his decisions. I was engrossed.
Very, very few books have ever done this to me. For this reason, Robinson Crusoe will always hold a place of honour in my mind.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
★ 2
Wasn't as bad as I remember but I defintely didn't enjoy this
Wasn't as bad as I remember but I defintely didn't enjoy this
adventurous
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Quotes:
What is this earth and sea of which I have seen so much, whence is it produced, and what am I, and all the other creatures, wild and tame, human and brutal, whence are we?
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O what ridiculous resolutions men take, when possess’d with fear! It deprives them of the use of those means which reason offers for their relief.
What is this earth and sea of which I have seen so much, whence is it produced, and what am I, and all the other creatures, wild and tame, human and brutal, whence are we?
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O what ridiculous resolutions men take, when possess’d with fear! It deprives them of the use of those means which reason offers for their relief.
handed in my term paper about this book today. not giving it a rating bcs i don't think it can be fairly judged from today's perspective. it's lowkey super boring and at no point did i root for the main character at all bcs hes a colonizer and a prick. but for the time it was published this was insane. there's a reason this is considered the first ever english novel, it was the first of an entire new genre, and that's something that is difficult to put into perspective nowadays. despite representing british imperialism, there are scenes and relationships in here that are surprisingly critical of colonialism for the time that it was written (eg recognizing the brutality of spanish colonialism in the americas) but the novel fails to apply this criticism to england, and the main character doesn't learn from his adventure. he sets out to sea to build a fortune in another country using slave labor and after fighting for his survival on the island for 20 years and developing a friendship with an indigenous person and coming across other people and cultures, instead of recognizing that slavery and imperialism are inhumane, as soon as he gets back to england he buys the island and calls it his colony. there is no development in ideology at all, it's like he ends up exactly where he was in the beginning of the book. this is what i would critique now having read hundreds of other novels, and is probably not something you can reasonably expect to find in a novel from the early 1700s. not a book i would pick up for entertainment, but the process of writing the paper was incredibly interesting.