_sal_ 's review for:

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

2.0

adventurous dark medium-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

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There isn't much to be said that hasn't already about a work like this. I can certainly understand it's momentous importance to the future of the English novel. Yet at times i didn't feel engaged in the story, it felt bland and frankly i didn't grow to like Robinson Crusoe and found him quite tedious in his self impose magnanimity towards the "savages" (which is a dilemma in it of its self but i digress) and others that he would meet. It's almost as if although fearing god (a surprisingly big narrative to the story) for not obeying him, Crusoe goes on to  act as a god to those around him.