Book #118 of 2021: A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I’ve enjoyed this volume, especially after not really caring for author Daniel Defoe’s more famous Robinson Crusoe. This later book also lacks a lot of the fundamentals that I typically look for in a novel, like …
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Book #35 of 2018: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe This classic man-versus-nature castaway novel has been hugely influential, but it’s pretty rough for a modern reader. 300 years after its initial publication the plot feels threadbare and glacially slow, with little to distract from the author / narrator’s racist views on the inferiority of Africans …
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