HammerOfJustice
Since: Apr, 2013
09/10/2018 00:00:00
Just read an abridged version for children. That\'s what I did. Leaves out all the Author Tract stuff mostly. And the man was a sailor, he had to be prepared should he be shipwrecked, so it\'s not unlikely he would know a few things a native with no access to European technology couldn\'t know.
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How did this become a classic?
I'm probably going to be chastised for saying this, but this is a terrible book, plain and simple, and for a variety of reasons. First, the book is incredibly contrived; an abnormal amount of usable items seem to survive from the ship, in improbably good conditions, and it seems a bit unlikely to say the least that a man who had been on this island for a few years could know more about how to survive on said island than someone who had lived there his whole life. Second, the author wastes impossible amounts of time describing things that don't need to be described, and droning on and on about menial events that serve no purpose. Third, the book is an annoyingly preachy Author Tract decrying the fact that most people aren't fundamentalist Christians. Ultimately, I couldn't tell you how this book managed to be remembered after even 30 years, let alone over 300. All I know is that if I were not required to read this for High School english, I wouldn't have.