A review by jonny_buijze
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

1.0

My rating system is based entirely on my personal enjoyment of a book, and I know classic literature should not be read through contemporary eyes, but... yeesh. Through the run-on sentences (sometimes over half a page's length), racism, the constant learning, unlearning, and then re-learning of the same three lessons, the arrogance of the main character, the last ~15 pages of the book having nothing to do with the actual plot (Friday fights a bear? ...okay?) and the RACISM this book was the biggest chore to read I've ever had. And yes, racism is to be expected in books that were written this long ago, but in this book said racism was central to the plot.