Anyway, the story is about a man who heads out to sea and has some problems. He eventually finds himself shipwrecked on a deserted yet fruitful island and he makes his life bountiful over the course of a few decades. The island not only sustains him but brings him to god, inspires a sense of purpose in his wandering, aimless life, and eventually brings him great wealth and friendship.
Of course the most interesting part of the book for me was sprinkled throughout the story from beginning to end. It was the discourse on Robinson’s methods behind creating a comfortable life for himself. It was in the descriptions of how he cultivated the land, bred livestock, made bread, butter, and other processed foods, goods, and wares, and how he managed to replicate most every kind of common luxury of the times with the things he had around him. Very interesting indeed.
Of course it took me a long time to finish the book up so I was constantly losing drive to hear more but it was never boring so in that regard I would place the book, classic as it is, near the bottom of my ‘to read again’ pile… but I would definitely watch the movie it it were to ever come to the drive-in. :)
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