Wordy Words on WordsIf you want a story like Treasure Island without the trickery, Robinson Crusoe without the personal or spiritual growth, or Gulliver's Travels without the satire, have I got a book for you! In it lies a story where not a single thing goes wrong, only one person shows any personal development, only one person gets sad one time (after ten years of being shipwrecked at that point), and everyone is unnaturally smart.
Or, alternatively, appropriately smart for their time? I can’t say for sure. If the intellects of the characters are representative of the average Swiss person of the time, our worldwide educational system has failed indeed.
The story has a family with such unnaturally good luck that, even when the crew of a doomed boat abandon them and they crash upon the rocks, their sleeping quarters are well above what might get wet so they went to sleep. In a storm so bad that the whole crew and every other person abandoned ship, never to be heard from again.
Then everything went right for over ten years. They never fought, they always got along, they never got desperate, they never ran out of ammo (they even went so far as to waste it by using three signal shots that everything is okay instead of, say, two), and almost all of their inventions were successful. They found on this uninhabited island, a huge field of hundreds of potato plants and they’re all good to be eaten right now! They found monkeys which they used immediately by throwing something at them which made the monkeys in the trees grab coconuts to throw down softly to the ground in mimicry.
Which wouldn't happen. Monkeys are mean.
The father is an encyclopedia of wilderness knowledge which comes in handy because the island that they’re on has boa constrictors, monkeys, tigers, bears, jackals, and a kangaroo. They successfully fight a shark and a whale under his guidance. He knows every plant, every tree, and, well, everything.
It’s just WEAK. I hated it.
#books #swissfamilyrobinson
Or, alternatively, appropriately smart for their time? I can’t say for sure. If the intellects of the characters are representative of the average Swiss person of the time, our worldwide educational system has failed indeed.
The story has a family with such unnaturally good luck that, even when the crew of a doomed boat abandon them and they crash upon the rocks, their sleeping quarters are well above what might get wet so they went to sleep. In a storm so bad that the whole crew and every other person abandoned ship, never to be heard from again.
Then everything went right for over ten years. They never fought, they always got along, they never got desperate, they never ran out of ammo (they even went so far as to waste it by using three signal shots that everything is okay instead of, say, two), and almost all of their inventions were successful. They found on this uninhabited island, a huge field of hundreds of potato plants and they’re all good to be eaten right now! They found monkeys which they used immediately by throwing something at them which made the monkeys in the trees grab coconuts to throw down softly to the ground in mimicry.
Which wouldn't happen. Monkeys are mean.
The father is an encyclopedia of wilderness knowledge which comes in handy because the island that they’re on has boa constrictors, monkeys, tigers, bears, jackals, and a kangaroo. They successfully fight a shark and a whale under his guidance. He knows every plant, every tree, and, well, everything.
It’s just WEAK. I hated it.
#books #swissfamilyrobinson
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