Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

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3.5 ★ - (liked it)

I read this for school some years ago and the first things I think of now when I hear Robinson Crusoe mentioned are: cannibalism, lengthy pieces of biblical commentary that at times don't quite line up with my beliefs, and it taking forever to read XD

But I also remember Friday and the parrot and Crusoe being shipwrecked. And him storing provisions in his house and making a canoe. I remember the goat and drying raisins. All things I liked reading about. So although my immediate memories of it aren't the best when I reflect long enough I did enjoy this book. I hope to read it again and write another review :) 

CWs: cannibals, 

12/21/23

Annabella

Read it for uni. Though a great outlook on the 1700s ad the birth of the novel, it dragged so much that to me, as twenty-first century reader, it felt like a sleeping pill.

Todd Luallen

Obviously a classic, so I wasn't too surprised along the way. What I really enjoyed was the character journey and the spiritual dialogue. And I also loved the Friday dialogue - well done. The last chapter or two seemed unnecessary. I think I would have preferred to end it earlier. But Defoe is probably not looking for editorial comments on his classic best-seller.

As an  adventure book, it was fine, but i had my problems with it

The first is with chronollogical order, sometimes the narratator jumped back and forth in time which really annoyed me. Also, we followed him for 30 years and his personality, or narration haven't changed. And the writing style was really bland, everything just happened and it was like a big monolouge.

Eszter Baranyi

As an  adventure book, it was fine, but i had my problems with it

The first is with chronollogical order, sometimes the narratator jumped back and forth in time which really annoyed me. Also, we followed him for 30 years and his personality, or narration haven't changed. And the writing style was really bland, everything just happened and it was like a big monolouge.

Barbara Williford

But I, who was born to be my own destroyer....

What a wonderful novel! Defoe is the master of description! The description of the voyage, island and life made the book come alive.

Robinson, who seems to always be unhappy with blessings, always seeking the next adventure has a series of misadventures that climax into his great odyssey. It is with this journey that he discovers himself, his purpose, peace and providence.

Who else was sad to have him leave his little peace of paradise? The audiobook narrated by Gordon Griffin was amazing.

Robinson Crusoe (Signet Classics)

Melody Izard

Oh the tediousness. Robinson is so sure he is going to encounter cannibals. He thinks of them all the time. And damn if they aren't just around the corner! He is just such a gifted man - and we get all kinds of info about how he builds his little shelter and carefully doles out his seeds - but we get no bathroom info or any inkling of missing companionship or sex. He has master/slave fantasies and lo and behold they come true. He saves Friday from being eaten, converts him to both a Christian and a non human-eater and has him as his loyal servant for life. I would have never made it through this book as a youth. The extra star comes about because I read Foe, by J.M. Coetzee right after. Excellent!

We set out on the 5th of February from Ireland, and had a very fair gale of wind for some days. As I remember, it might be about the 20th of February in the evening late, when the mate, having the watch, came into the round-house and told us he saw a flash of fire, and heard a gun fired; and while he was telling us of it, a boy came in and told us the boatswain heard another. This made us all run out upon the quarterdeck, where for a while we heard nothing; but in a few minutes we saw a very great light, and found that there was some very terrible fire at a distance; immediately we had recourse to our reckonings, in which we all agreed that there could be no land that way in which the fire showed itself, no, not for five hundred leagues, for it appeared at WNW. Upon this, we concluded it must be some ship on fire at sea; and as, by our hearing the noise of guns just before, we concluded that it could not be far off, we stood directly towards it, and were presently satisfied we should discover it, because the further we sailed, the greater the light appeared; though, the weather being hazy, we could not perceive anything but the light for a while. In about half-an-hour's sailing, the wind being fair for us, though not much of it, and the weather clearing up a little, we could plainly discern that it was a great ship on fire in the middle of the sea. . . .

The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Metal shadowhunter 

THERE. IS. SO. MUCH. RAPE.

YOU CAN WRITE A GOOD STORY WITHOUT THAT MUCH RAPE.

Sarah Sammis

Liam Holbrook

Jeremy Boyd

Robinson Crusoe (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)

Sarah Campbell

Melis

C. J. Daley 

Gillian Rose

Robinson Crusoe, set ashore on an island after a terrible storm at sea, is forced to make do with only a knife, some tobacco, and a pipe. He learns how to build a canoe, make bread, and endure endless solitude. That is, until, twenty-four years later, when he confronts another human being.

Robinson Crusoe

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