A review by elizabethdaisy
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

2.0

Some if this was quite good. A lot of it was uncomfortably racist. It suffers from being a product of its time (although it also gives an insight into the time). I give it two stars as a reading experience. Maybe I would think differently if I was studying it, but if you are after something pleasurable to read I would not recommend this novel.


(Also: this book is very famously about a man being stranded and isolated. If you read the wikipedia article, it lists very few named characters. And yet, somehow, against all odds, there are *two* people named Robinson. Did Defoe forget what he named his main character?)