A review by colinandersbrodd
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

3.0

I recently re-read this, and discovered that I really don't like a lot of it - it is colonialist, racist, and promotes a brand of Christian thinking I find particularly noxious (God gets credit for everything, human agency or bad luck get the blame for everything, and Christianity justifies whatever is done to those who are not white or Christian). It's also fairly tedious by today's standards, I think. I'm glad to have re-read it, having seen it referenced in countless history books lately (random example - in a book about the life of Abraham Lincoln, discussing books popular when he was growing up). The illustrations in this edition are beautiful, but still not a fun book, despite its status as "great literature" . . .