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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Start date: August 6, 2013

Finish date: August 31, 2013

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

Discussion leader: Trisha

Why we're reading this: Old School Classic Group Read, August 2013
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Jan 20, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, classics, 1001-books

I notice that almost all of the reviews are five star raves and I just cannot get there. Immediately before reading this book I read Ivanhoe (Scott) and Kidnapped (Stevenson). I was new to all of these books and read them for a personal challenge to read more classics. I did not like Robinson Crusoe as much as either of the other two I mentioned. I do have a few observations:

1. I had a hard time getting beyond the racism contained in this book. I recognize that it is a reflection of the times an ...more

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Aug 01, 2008 Trisha rated it it was ok

Shelves: classics

How did this book ever become a classic?? The premise is fantastic, the first part of the plotline I was hooked - but then it should have ended. Instead, the author continued on...and on....and on...ughh.

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