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 Featured articles The City of Ember  The Chronicles of Narnia Recommended articles Featured reviewI didn't read this until I was 45, but I enjoyed it and was pleased to recommend it to my 14 year old son. It's not the easiest book to read by any means, because the spelling is quite different in many cases to modern spelling, and because there are no chapter divisions whatsoever, so you end up wondering where to pause. It makes a great adventure story, but it is also quite a thoughtful book as Crusoe muses on the grace of God (or 'Providence' as he calls it), that has saved his life from a shipwreck, even though he is marooned alone on an island with possibly no hope of ever leaving. My main criticism is that Crusoe is rather too perfect in his attitudes. He is occasionally sad, but he never admits to anger, depression, or indeed almost any fault at all. This seems rather unrealistic. Nevertheless, the book deserves to be read, 300 years after it was written, and I'd recommend it, especially to teenage boys. Want to know which book this reviewer was talking about? Click here to find out!
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