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• fellowniusmonk · Dec 18, 2021 · Recommends

  …robot series, foundation and short stories starting with The Last Question. Jules Verne Mark Twain, various stories but particularly the Diary of Adam & Eve The Jungle Book by Kipling Lost Horizon Robinson Crusoe Dune Series Enders Game and sequels. The Odyssey The Count of Monte Cristo Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card because it helped me understand that a cultures internally consumed fiction tells you about…

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• yesenadam · Jan 8, 2018 · Mentions

  Stevenson's Treasure Island has a one-legged West Country pirate with a parrot on his shoulder - Long John Silver. The parrot was taken from Robinson Crusoe. The Arrr apparently dates from the 1930s movie versions. Stevenson wrote: "Treasure Island came out of Kingsley's At Last, where I got the Dead Man's Chest—and that was the seed—and out of the great…

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• Normille · Jun 7, 2020 · Critical

  …stick; women faint at the drop of a hat, men fall to their knees, beating their breasts, crying and wailing their devotion in front of all present and everyone eulogises at length on 'good vs. evil'. ROBINSON CRUSOE [1719] I didn't realise this one was that old, til I looked it up! Another cracking story but, to an even worse extent than Dracula, suffers from the attitudes of its day. Crusoe is such a pious, pompous…

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