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Average rating3.4
One more classical I had a different memory about. What I found: a spoiled brat who ignores all ‘wisdom' and ‘advice' from absolutely everybody who don't agree with him, who suffers inimaginable misfortune, then lives alone for 24 years on an island making do and blaming himself. This happens for over half the book (70%). Then all of a sudden said island becomes a hot spot and not only Friday, the good savage he adopts and “teaches”, but several crews and tribes start coming ashore.
Sooo he rides back with a captain he saved, after long battles filled with swords zzzzz, and finds out he had the most honourable friends in the universe minding his affairs: not only do they give his riches back, but with a profit! He gets married, and that is explained in a single paragraph, so I had no idea what charmed the lady in question, and goes back to the island to give the people he left there more gifts besides his infinite wisdom.
If I ever go to an island, that is a book I will not take with me. I am giving it two stars because I try to think of myself as someone who respects well written sentences, which Mr Defoe does well, and because I understand it was written in 1719, so it might be difficult to relate to it - even though Shakespeare, Bronte, Austen or other classics don't seem to present that kind of obstacle for me.