Robinson Crusoe - Mille feuilles

Paperback, 416 pages

Castellano language

Published March 17, 2016 by Alianza.

ISBN:: 978-84-9104-321-8

Inspirada en un suceso real, "Robinson Crusoe" se convirtió desde el mismo momento de su publicación en un éxito de público. Clásico de aventuras por excelencia, la novela narra el naufragio de un marinero que, único superviviente, se ve arrojado a una isla desierta. Allí, con la sola ayuda de su capacidad y de su ingenio habrá de enfrentarse a la naturaleza, a la soledad y a los peligros que acechan en las islas vecinas. Inspirada en un suceso real, "Robinson Crusoe" se convirtió desde el mismo momento de su publicación en un éxito de público. Clásico de aventuras por excelencia, la novela narra el naufragio de un marinero que, único superviviente, se ve arrojado a una isla desierta. Allí, con la sola ayuda de su capacidad y de su ingenio habrá de enfrentarse a la naturaleza, a la soledad y a los peligros que acechan en las islas vecinas.

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Ji FU reviewed Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

18th century Christian Fiction

4 stars

I really liked Robinson Crusoe. Much more than I expected to. It had a much deeper spiritual component that I had not expected, though maybe religion was just always part of life for Europeans of the 1700s. Robin(son) was a disobedient young man, even if "a good guy" in the eyes of the world. When he was shipwrecked and landed on his island of despair he went from not caring about Religion, to being mad at God, to knowing God never existed, to praying for his needs, to celebrating a sabbath, to being thankful that he had survived, to actually reading his Bible, to a true personal relationship with Jesus to bringing the only man he met to the same, and struggling how to live as a Christian in the world God put him.

At one time I thought it may have been the best Christian Fiction I ever …

I really liked Robinson Crusoe. Much more than I expected to. It had a much deeper spiritual component that I had not expected, though maybe religion was just always part of life for Europeans of the 1700s. Robin(son) was a disobedient young man, even if "a good guy" in the eyes of the world. When he was shipwrecked and landed on his island of despair he went from not caring about Religion, to being mad at God, to knowing God never existed, to praying for his needs, to celebrating a sabbath, to being thankful that he had survived, to actually reading his Bible, to a true personal relationship with Jesus to bringing the only man he met to the same, and struggling how to live as a Christian in the world God put him.

At one time I thought it may have been the best Christian Fiction I ever read, it felt so much more real than dumb stories like the Left Behind series or radicicolous stories like the Amish Romance series, until the last third or so of the book when it got kind of racist and violent, and adamantly anti-Catholic. While there are many racist and violent people who call themselves Christians now-a-days I don't believe that was ever the plan of the prince of peace, and the Catholic Church is the Church He founded.

But even with all I am amazed how much Defoe kept me "turning the pages" of my audio book in a very interesting story, told almost completely without any additional characters. I have a hard time believing the claim that this was the first ever English novel, but it would make sense why all of the older stuff we read in school were plays (which were meant to be seen not read) and not novels.

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