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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Imagine “Cast Away” married “On the Road” but had a child from a previous relationship with “Django Unchained” and that child grows up to get the lead role in the “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” musical and they all get together every year for Thanksgiving dinner.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Cannibalism
Moderate: Slavery, Murder, War
it was ok.
I actually though during the first couple of chapters (90 pages or so) that this could be enjoyable and the premis aswell seemed very philosophical. But my god it crept about.
2/3 of the book he spends alone on the island and does the same 5 things over and over and over again. The dialoge at the end is so boring and the only you you feel is that the end was near. It would have definitly benefitted from a shorter verison. Because either go through how you feel alone on an island OR the aftermath of spending 25 years in isolation. But not a bad mush out of both.
I literally was so happy when I read he was in his 23 year because I though it would be over than. Oh how I was wrong. We spent till chapter 19 on that dearm island. FROM 20 chapters
I actually though during the first couple of chapters (90 pages or so) that this could be enjoyable and the premis aswell seemed very philosophical. But my god it crept about.
2/3 of the book he spends alone on the island and does the same 5 things over and over and over again. The dialoge at the end is so boring and the only you you feel is that the end was near. It would have definitly benefitted from a shorter verison. Because either go through how you feel alone on an island OR the aftermath of spending 25 years in isolation. But not a bad mush out of both.
I literally was so happy when I read he was in his 23 year because I though it would be over than. Oh how I was wrong. We spent till chapter 19 on that dearm island. FROM 20 chapters
My favorite book of all time. Not for its quality or strength of story, but because I like the ideas of it. That being said, I prefer the t.v. series version of Friday and Crusoe more than the book. It's less racist.
adventurous
challenging
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This book is honestly so funny I've been thinking of it everyday since i read it
-keeps getting on ships despite EVERY TİME he does so he either gets scared shitless, attacked by pirates, taken as slave, ship capsizes, etc. Even after the whole island thing a few years later he goes back on a ship.
-Robinson has two cats that he brings to the island , there are also wild cats on the island. He later sees a bunch of new kittens that seem to be a mix and doesn't understand where they came from
-when he converts Friday, Friday is confused about why god allows satan to exists, crusoe has a crisis of faith and gets sick. Eventually he manages to explain it to Friday, who clearly still thinks its stupid
-friday fantasizes about taking him back to his home island and make him teach the people there. crusoe grows jealous because he thinks thatsomehow translated of wanting to leave him.
-he spends months making a ship that he has no way to actually bring to water. He later once he has more people attempts to make a ship again. This time he makes it too small for all those people.
-he voices he would rather be eaten by cannibals than go to spain
-walks around with like, 5 guns. he would have loved shooters.
-"first of all I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction"
-the literal full title of the book "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself."
"written by himself" isn't the only lie in it.
-keeps getting on ships despite EVERY TİME he does so he either gets scared shitless, attacked by pirates, taken as slave, ship capsizes, etc. Even after the whole island thing a few years later he goes back on a ship.
-Robinson has two cats that he brings to the island , there are also wild cats on the island. He later sees a bunch of new kittens that seem to be a mix and doesn't understand where they came from
-when he converts Friday, Friday is confused about why god allows satan to exists, crusoe has a crisis of faith and gets sick. Eventually he manages to explain it to Friday, who clearly still thinks its stupid
-friday fantasizes about taking him back to his home island and make him teach the people there. crusoe grows jealous because he thinks thatsomehow translated of wanting to leave him.
-he spends months making a ship that he has no way to actually bring to water. He later once he has more people attempts to make a ship again. This time he makes it too small for all those people.
-he voices he would rather be eaten by cannibals than go to spain
-walks around with like, 5 guns. he would have loved shooters.
-"first of all I married, and that not either to my disadvantage or dissatisfaction"
-the literal full title of the book "The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself."
"written by himself" isn't the only lie in it.
A manual for surviving.
That was the most fascinating adventure I've ever taken without leaving home! I should have read this book long time ago, when I was much younger. But I managed to do it only now, at the age of 18. Nevertheless, I fully enjoyed the book. It's the greatest work showing us what a person can do standing on the edge of life and death. What I did carry out of this book was that whatever happens in your life you should not be in despair, but hope for the best, for if one loses hope one loses everything...
That was the most fascinating adventure I've ever taken without leaving home! I should have read this book long time ago, when I was much younger. But I managed to do it only now, at the age of 18. Nevertheless, I fully enjoyed the book. It's the greatest work showing us what a person can do standing on the edge of life and death. What I did carry out of this book was that whatever happens in your life you should not be in despair, but hope for the best, for if one loses hope one loses everything...
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Crusoe, sweetie, I'm gonna hold your hand while saying this, you talk too much !
While I can appreciate how this novel helped shape the genre of popular fiction today, I couldn't get more than halfway through it before giving up on it. Defoe does an admirable job of capturing the realistic struggles of his character as he fights to survive while stranded and alone on a desert island. His main character has to teach himself how to do everything, from planting and growing his own food, to making furniture, to making basic tools to carry out all these endeavors. It takes months and many mistakes before he can achieve any of this. The story itself, the character who is admittedly flawed and self-absorbed, even the prose is all fine and believable. It is the pacing of the story that got me in the end. The descriptions of things and how the character struggles past each new obstacle gets very repetitive and circular. I would be reading about something that happened during one season only to have the author take me back and harp about something else he'd already belabored to death that happened months or weeks earlier, reiterating the same info again and again. I finally gave up when I got halfway through the novel and nothing new had happened. Robinson Crusoe was still struggling to learn how to do everything, with no foreshadowing of things to come, like encountering cannibals, or finding Friday his eventual companion. I just couldn't go on. Unlike Robinson Crusoe I guess I don't have what it takes to survive this adventure with him.