“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
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I really tried to give this book a chance, but I disliked it so much I knew if I didn’t power through I’d be stuck on it until the year ended and that would be such an annoying way to miss my goal. 

The main character gives up wealth, safety, and security for frivolous pursuits in a way only someone who has never known true challenge can. I felt like the writing was just so overdone and almost intentionally difficult to follow out of some weird classist gatekeeping. That might be my projection. 

The whole leaving a plantation to find more slaves was just gross. I could barely follow the plot and skimmed a good portion of this text. 

I’ve seen Castaway and I feel like it’s an insult to Tom Hanks to remind people it was somewhat inspired by this book. Maybe the only redeeming quality is how beautiful does clothbound edition is and that it’ll look really nice on my shelf. Absolutely not the book for me.