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Ok, maybe I liked this tale as a child, but I tried to re-read it and it is just so unbelievable that I can’t even suspend my disbelief. I don’t even know if kids today would judge some of this stuff!
Not only do they have all the tools and livestock they need because they saved it from the ship…I can buy that, but they end up on an island with monkeys, flamingos, cactus that can be used as thread, pineapple, and kangaroos. Oh PLEASE! When I got to the kangaroo I had to place it down.
Everyone is just a bit too pious and a bit too pleased and repentant when they’re reproached for minor offenses. I can attribute this to the time period it was written in…trying to teach lessons.
The minister father who is extremely knowledgeable about all of the items that could be used in a variety of ways that they find on this “magic island” is the narrator of the tale and it just doesn’t cut it.
I realize that it’s a children’s tale, but even at that, everything is a bit too convienient for my taste. I mean they have cured ham, cheese and butter for pity’s sake!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The tale is of a self-reliant family tree who manages to make the best from the situation when they are ship-wrecked on a South-Pacific island. But the tale is less about overcoming right misfortune and more about the family tree cleverly utilizing the implausible wealth of artifacts, flora, and fauna that they manage to find in one location. No challenge or inconvenience arises that cannot be solved by some hard work and another miraculously convenient find. Furthermore, even in the surprisingly abundant surroundings of the family tree, it seems impossible that they’d have enough time and energy to truly accomplish so many feats to maintain their high standard of living in these hard surroundings.
I was also disappointed by the additions by another leader later in the book. After the initial writing, many others added their own versions of the family tree’s continuing adventures and persons from Isabelle de Montolieu are contained in this edition. Her additions contradicted some events earlier written about by Wyss and I establish them less appealing.
Still, to a boy (as I was when I first read this long ago), the adventure of being stranded on an island while being able to accomplish nearly anything was captivating. It reminds me games I’d play with my friends as a lad. Not a terribly realistic adventure, but a fun one nonetheless.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I have read this book and i only liked som eparts i didn’t really get all of it and the authur didn’t really clarify it well. But for the most part it was a excellent book!
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
In the intervening two centuries since the first _Swiss Family tree Robinson_ volume was written by Johann Wyss, there have been many different variations of “sequels” and “second halves” written, and many editions that packaged persons in different ways.
This particular Kindle edition claims to transcribe the original volume, written by Wyss (a Swiss pastor) and rumor has it that combines it with a version of a “second volume”/sequel written by one Isabelle de Montolieu.
The first volume, written by Wyss himself, is a timeless classic — a small silly at times and a small fantastic, but still a fantastic tale. Every variety of New World plant and animal life is present on their island paradise; nothing terrible ever really happens after the initial shipwreck, and the whole first volume is basically a parable on how anyone who has Faith, Reason, and Industry will meet with success in life — a parable that teaaches the reader a not-insignificant amount of (19th century) natural science along the way. This volume was a favorite of mine as a child and it’s still a favorite now on re-read twenty five years later.
The second volume . . .ehh. It’s simple to tell the leader changed. There’s a lot more tension, the various family tree members meet with real injury and danger for a change, and overall it’s closer to an adventure novel than a parable. The problem with it is that this is the volume where the family tree encounters the, ahem, “savages,” and . .well, I’ll quote:
“And now, dear father, I reflect we ought not to call these people savages. They have the simplicity of childhood; a trifle irritates them, a trifle appeases them; they are grateful and affectionate. I find them neither cruel nor barbarous. . .
‘We must not, ‘ said I,’judge all of savage people by these, who have had the benefit of a virtuous teacher. Mr. Willis has already cast into their hearts the seeds of [Christianity]‘”
Sooo, the second volume isn’t exactly politically right by modern standards. There are also some pretty severe transcription errors — for example, a two-page conflict with bears, which I remember from my childhood as one of the high points of the entire book, is absent from this edition.(I notably don’t remember the involvement of “savages” at all, and suspect I read a different variant).
So, overall, I give this kindle edition three stars — lots of fantastic content, but probably not the best version out there. There should, at least, be additional free editions of this tale available online that include the missing sections, and perhaps at least one edition that doesn’t treat of South Sea islanders with such painfully jarring paternalism.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Okay. C. Jennings you talked about in your review that you did not even know if kids today would judge The Swiss Family tree Robison. I am a kid and I will tell you. No, I do not judge it, but, I do like it. You are not supposed to judge it or analyse the possobility of it. It is fiction.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5