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Dear Crusoe,What the F*** is wrong with you?!!!My opinion, short and simple: when Crusoe revolted against his father/God he actually didn't want to change the social or natural system, he just wanted to take the role of his father! He wanted to become a father/God. And eventually that is exactly wh...
This brings back a lot of memories. I was such a small child when I read this for the first time and it made quite an enormous (kind of the size of a T-rex) impression on me! I loved Crusoe! He was my hero, alone on that island, far away from the world, bravely fighting everything that came his way....
I didn't think I really needed to read this book. After all the plot line is pretty well known and the survival story of being stuck on a desert island has been repeated in many other books as well as used multiple times in Hollywood blockbusters. And somehow I was under the impression that when C...
Second time around, my feelings for this novel haven’t changed: I’m still disappointed by it. Crusoe’s the kind of man, who only looks out for number one, having no sense of sympathy or feeling for family, friends, women and allies. He’s what I’d call a ruthless bastard! Yet my wacky sense of humor ...
Robinson Crusoe, a suicidal businessman with sociopathic tendencies, obsessively tries to recreate society when he's shipwrecked. He grows increasingly paranoid; by the time he finally reunites with another human, he's murderously insane.
Daniel Defoe operates at his best in measured spaces and concrete details. In his novels, money clinks and time beats. And nowhere can you experience the slow, steady beat of time than in Robinson Crusoe. What Defoe lacks in the ability to portray his characters psychologically, he makes up for by u...
I wrote this review as if the Crusoe had come out now, in 2009, rather than in the 1700's... trying to be clever. My attempt at humor failed, but here it is anyway.....You have to applaud an author who produces such a successful work in the already crowded "castaway on a deserted island" genre. Defo...
Defoe's Roxana is a favorite and A Journal of the Plague Year is incredibly compelling. How odd then that rereading this one fell a little flat. The adventure story remembered from childhood turns out to have a good deal to do with colonialism.
My dad gave my twelve-year-old nephew a copy of Robinson Crusoe and told him that he ought to read it. My nephew is a reluctant reader and never got very far in the book. After reading it this week, I can see why.Robinson Crusoe was a tough read for me. You know the story, of course. Crusoe, against...
I understand it's an early novel and should be respected as a pioneer of the craft, but dang it, this is the most boring pioneer ever! Reading Robinson Crusoe is like reading a grocery list scribbled in the margins of a postcard from Fiji: "Weather's fine! Wish you could be here! Need fruit, veg, me...
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