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I've been digging at this one for quite some time. I read an abridged version when I was a kid and really liked it. I'm into that whole man-versus-the elements sort of thing. So I was given this version AGES ago and never read it. It's a really beautI've been digging at this one for quite some time. I read an abridged version when I was a kid and really liked it. I'm into that whole man-versus-the elements sort of thing. So I was given this version AGES ago and never read it. It's a really beautiful edition, with the illustrations by N.C. Wyeth, who I adore. So a while back, finding myself with time on my hands, I started it up.
It's a little tedious. I don't mean that in a bad way. I just mean it's not the gripping adventure I remember from my youth. Between all the action bits is a whole lot of spiritual diatribe, which almost borders on pontificating more than a few times. I had no idea the story was so tinged in theology. I do not object in the least, especially in the beginning when Crusoe questions his salvation from the sea and deposit on the island, and eventually develops gratitude for the bounty he disocvers which enables his survival. But it becomes a bit heavy-handed when he meets Friday and gets him to cheer for Team Jesus. Defoe is a bit wordy, of course there has to be a lot of description when the story involves one guy for a few hundred pages. But he has the worst case of run-on sentence I've ever read. My college English professor would have slashed this to bits with his red pen.
Either way, I'm glad I've read it, the book on the shelf was a looming reminder of what a rotten procrastinator I am. That, and Wyeth's paintings really make you there on the island, more so than the words, I think. For the most part, though, this is one of those books one reads simply because it's a classic, not for actual enjoyment....more
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