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A review by stridette
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
1.0
DNF at some relatively early point.
You know the kind of writing where you're exhausted and praying for death by the end of each sentence because they're just so tedious and bland? This is that kind of writing. I know it's old; I've read plenty of old stories. That's not my problem with it.
I don't intend to rate based on politics, mostly because anyone can read this book and see it's painfully racist and anyone can also understand that it's from a different time. But I just want to make a note of the fact that yes, this is indeed very racist, and also very stupid. Crusoe is duuumb. Resourceful, I guess, but not predisposed to learning lessons from experiences. Not when they might challenge his view on something, anyway. Maybe this changes over the course of the book, but I can't be arsed getting there.
You know the kind of writing where you're exhausted and praying for death by the end of each sentence because they're just so tedious and bland? This is that kind of writing. I know it's old; I've read plenty of old stories. That's not my problem with it.
I don't intend to rate based on politics, mostly because anyone can read this book and see it's painfully racist and anyone can also understand that it's from a different time. But I just want to make a note of the fact that yes, this is indeed very racist, and also very stupid. Crusoe is duuumb. Resourceful, I guess, but not predisposed to learning lessons from experiences. Not when they might challenge his view on something, anyway. Maybe this changes over the course of the book, but I can't be arsed getting there.