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lukiut 's review for:
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
I did not love this book. In fact, I didn't like it at all, and I know it's mostly my taste's fault.
I can aknowledge it had its interesting parts here and there and the fact that it is still to this day an important piece of both English literature and literature in general, but I couldn't get along with it for the life of me.
Since I started university, however, it's come more easier to me to read books that I don't particularly enjoy. Probably because I really enjoy the act of analyzing them and putting them in a context.
All the rambling aside, the contribution this book had to literature is surely very great, being the start to a whole new writing era and establishing a whole new writing form: the novel.
It also set itself apart from all the other works before it by tackling subjects in a totally different manner, by not using the same ol' religious plots over and over again.
I'd recommend it both to someone interested in seeing the evolution of literature (particularly novels) over time and to someone simply interested in adventure stories. It reminded me quite a lot of the Jules Verne stuff I tried to read some years ago. I miserably failed, because I didn't like them at all.
I probably wouldn't have gotten through this book, were it not for the audiobook. Some people may really enjoy it, though.
I can aknowledge it had its interesting parts here and there and the fact that it is still to this day an important piece of both English literature and literature in general, but I couldn't get along with it for the life of me.
Since I started university, however, it's come more easier to me to read books that I don't particularly enjoy. Probably because I really enjoy the act of analyzing them and putting them in a context.
All the rambling aside, the contribution this book had to literature is surely very great, being the start to a whole new writing era and establishing a whole new writing form: the novel.
It also set itself apart from all the other works before it by tackling subjects in a totally different manner, by not using the same ol' religious plots over and over again.
I'd recommend it both to someone interested in seeing the evolution of literature (particularly novels) over time and to someone simply interested in adventure stories. It reminded me quite a lot of the Jules Verne stuff I tried to read some years ago. I miserably failed, because I didn't like them at all.
I probably wouldn't have gotten through this book, were it not for the audiobook. Some people may really enjoy it, though.