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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

Start date: August 6, 2013

Finish date: August 31, 2013

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

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Mar 27, 2018 Karen Michele Burns rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-books-completed

I love the narration of Simon Vance and found that my library had that audio version available, so I knew that was the way to go for this castaway story and listening certainly enhanced the book and kept it from bogging down in the slower parts. Robinson Crusoe was a re-read for me, but it has been at least 40 years between reads, so it was almost like a new experience. I liked it quite a bit and found it overall to be more engaging than A Journal of the Plague Year by Defoe which I recently fin ...more

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May 10, 2012 Melanti rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: e-book, 1001-books, classics, 2012, adventure

It's always interesting to read something written centuries ago, especially a foundational book for a genre.

By modern standards, this is really only worthy of being read by children/teens, though I think they'd get tired of the Christian theology. It's British Imperialist, in the worst sort of way - all good things come from the "civilized" world, and all people would jump at the chance of being slaves so that they could partake of Britain in some fashion. Ha. There's really no motivations and ...more

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Jul 18, 2015 Nate Morse rated it it was ok

Shelves: literature, literature-british

First of all, it was an interesting idea for a book. Stranded on tropical island with only what you can scavenge from his destroyed ship. However, the parts that dragged this down for me was the repetition. At one point he describes what he did for the first 4 years stranded on the island. He then proceeds to show his journal... which just describes what he did the first 4 years on the island again. Repeatedly get his mental thoughts on religion, which is fine the first time, but it goes on and ...more

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Nov 19, 2017 ქეთევან rated it did not like it

ბევრი რამის თქმა მინდა ამ წიგნზე, მაგრამ ჯეიმს ჯოისმა უკვე თქვა უკეთესად: "He is the true prototype of the British colonist. ... The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity." და ხუთი ვარსკვლავი ვინც დაუწერეთ, ალბათ ბავშვობაში წაკითხულ, დაწურულ ვერსიას დაუწერეთ. რა მრჯიდა, რატომ მოვკიდე ხელი ორიგინალს. მოლ ფლენდერსიდან ხომ ვიცოდი, რა უვარგისი მწერალიც ი ...more

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