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Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
This book is certainly not the best book I've ever read.
Though it was well written there was considerable religious tediousness to trudge through as well as much repetition, though this could easily be interpreted as the mental state of Robinson as he repeatedly dwells on the events that have brought him to the island and his subsequent progress.
My distaste for certain aspects of the book is rooted in the attitude of the early 1700s, the time which this book was written. The book is heavily laden with examples of the superiority of man over man, man over nature and Christianity over other religious beliefs making much of the text difficult to get through. There are, however, enjoyable sections in which the book abandons all of the afore-mentioned superiority and the story is simply about a man and how he survives on the island.
I am glad to have read this book but I shall not endeavour to pick it up again.
Though it was well written there was considerable religious tediousness to trudge through as well as much repetition, though this could easily be interpreted as the mental state of Robinson as he repeatedly dwells on the events that have brought him to the island and his subsequent progress.
My distaste for certain aspects of the book is rooted in the attitude of the early 1700s, the time which this book was written. The book is heavily laden with examples of the superiority of man over man, man over nature and Christianity over other religious beliefs making much of the text difficult to get through. There are, however, enjoyable sections in which the book abandons all of the afore-mentioned superiority and the story is simply about a man and how he survives on the island.
I am glad to have read this book but I shall not endeavour to pick it up again.