A review by jeffphilly
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

adventurous challenging emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

a book club book that legitimately kept my interest.  this is a novel in which the main character, Robinson Crusoe, is marooned on an island after a shipwreck.  Crusoe spent an incredibly long period of time isolated on this island.  Merely surviving because of sheer ingenuity.  The scenario is really eerily similar to that of Tom Hanks in the movie Castaway.  The difference being that Crusoe was marooned in the novel a few hundred years ago, while Hanks plane crashed in more modern times.  But either way both faced the same situation in that the way were pretty much given up for dead and all by their lonesome.  I did enjoy the book and although I was not readily familiar with Daniel Defoe, I did find that the book kept my interesr.