The fifty-fourth book: #1009 Roxana - Daniel DeFoe
All these comics have distracted me from reading novels recently, not helped by the at times mixed quality of these. Still, Daniel DeFoe has delivered on these stories with most of these stories - Robinson Crusoe might, in the end, be one of his weakest.
Roxana is certainly mixed in that sense. Quite a bit of it is engaging, but there are several areas with descriptions that don't hold up for me. I'm not as interested in the details of the household or how they live their lives - it's the drama and the stories that interest me. Luckily, there are several places where that holds up, and while, similarly, dialogue is still somewhat stilted, it feels a lot more readable in the places where they don't have paragraph long discussions. It's an interesting ascent and descent through social ranks, although they are themes he's explored before. It's readable, but by now I'm looking forward to something that's a bit different.