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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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Why we're reading this: Old School Classic Group Read, August 2013
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Mar 27, 2018 Karen Michele Burns rated it really liked it

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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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