I read this a while back, some nine years ago or so. I remember liking it but not loving it. Any story about a guy stranded on an island is going to at least be somewhat interesting by default. There is enough adventure in here to make it a worthwhile read. Plus, it was written in the early 1700's which has always surprised me. It doesn't read like that old of a book. The book also has a lot of religious aspects to it as Robinson reads the Bible often and we get to read his thoughts about what he has read.
Well, here are a few quotes:
"For sudden joys, like griefs, confound at first."
"[W]henever they come to a true sense of things, they will find deliverance from sin a much greater blessing than deliverance from affliction."
"[W]e never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries."
"[N]othing but Divine revelation can form the knowledge of Jesus Christ, and of a redemption purchased for us, of a Mediator of the new covenant, and of an Intercessor at the footstool of God's throne; I say, nothing but a revelation from Heaven can form these in the soul; and that therefore the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, I mean, the Word of God and the Spirit of God, promised for the guide and sanctifier of His people, are the absolutely necessary instructors of the souls of men, in the saving knowledge of God, and the means of salvation."
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