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3.17 AVERAGE
3.17 AVERAGE
There's a kind of economical simplicity to the narrative and prose in Robinson Crusoe (another way to say I found it flat). I recall hearing somewhere that this volume represents an early fiction of liberal capitalist ideology.
Robinson Crusoe Island to do list
- Wake up and monotonously recount everything you did today in painstaking detail
- Imagine things that ‘savages’ are doing and then be mad about the existence of these imaginary people
- Thank God
- Say everyone would be happy if they thought of someone who had it worse
- Thank God (but you have to be racist this time)
- Build another canoe (unsuccessfully)
- Monotonously recount everything you did today in painstaking detail (except this time slightly differently)
- Actual tangible real life racism
- Thank God
I didn't really care for this book the first time I read it but the second time, it was easier to read because I knew exactly which parts to skip.
I really liked this read even though it was a school one! It was also a really quick read. There weren't any plot twists so what you expected also happened but I didn't mind at all. Defoe wrote a really good adventurous story that will probably entertain the readers for another hundreds of years!
The main character was also well written. I loved to read about all the things Robinson managed to do on the island, although I hardly doubt a young wealthy man from that time could do it on his own... Well, I wouldn't be able even though I've just read all the instructions.
Overall it was a good read. An easy one. Something for a good relax time.
The main character was also well written. I loved to read about all the things Robinson managed to do on the island, although I hardly doubt a young wealthy man from that time could do it on his own... Well, I wouldn't be able even though I've just read all the instructions.
Overall it was a good read. An easy one. Something for a good relax time.
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