Mar 10, 2016
I give up. I've gotten 76% of the way through this book and I can't handle any more. It astounds me that a book with an intriguing premise, interesting setting, filled with action in one of my earliest favorite genres can be soooo boring. But I simply cannot read any more. I don't feel any connection to any of the characters, and I don't care what happens to them. Even the promise of exploring this long-lost continent ravaged by decades and centuries of neglect, savages and mutants is not enough to keep me going.
If I have to single out a specific point where I think that this book went downhill, it would be very early, when the author attempts a very clunky exposition of the values that the future culture lives by, and which include prohibitions on both writing and technology. So contrived and contradictory. Maybe there was a point to those draconian measures, but they hadn't been revealed by the time I quit the book. ( )

I loved the original Robinson Crusoe when I read it in high school and this one has some of the same themes of survival, but nicely transferred to a future time. An interesting future society and good characters. I liked it enough to pay full price for the second in the series. ( )

I received a free copy of this audio book in exchange for an unbiased review. I enjoyed this book. It was an original story. The narrator had a nice voice. He conveyed the emotion in the story well. I liked this book so much I am going to buy the Kindle edition of the book. I will be watching for the author's next work. I recommend Robinson Crusoe 2244. ( )

Robinson Crusoe 2244 started out slow and was confusing in parts. However, when the rebellion starts and Robinson makes his getaway, I found it difficult to set the book aside. It's two centuries after the world apocalypse, and life is much different for those survivors in England which now live under a supposedly Caste system. On the eve of the rebellion, Robinson discovers that his life-long girlfriend - the daughter of the highest official in their district - was not in love with him, but was, instead, acting on behalf of her father. Robinson's parents are suspect to growing the rebellion, and the daughter became his eyes and ears during the faked relationship.

Once Robinson escapes to a decimated United States - guided there by a set of coordinates that his mother had given him before disappearing two years earlier. He sets out and searches for his mother while learning to survive and avoiding the terrifying creatures that roamed the countryside in search of food. He is saved and befriended by an old man who takes him under his wing and then disappears one morning a few weeks later. The setting for much of the story is Washington D.C., where the author does a masterful job of merging the DC that readers know today with the ruins of DC two centuries from now.

Robinson soon discovers that a group of marauders who were sacrificing other humans to the infected creatures once a month, and then notices a spirited teenage girl in the group who was destined to die. He rescues her from the bad guys and becomes Robinson's girl "Friday." They learn from one another over the next several months and soon fall in love.

Both of their worlds suddenly come crashing down when attacked by soldiers from his home across the seas and the marauders who conduct the monthly sacrifices.

There is a cure available to end the global infection, and unknowingly, the missing puzzle piece is in a locket from his mother that Robinson wears around his neck. The regime in England suspects there is a cure, but, instead, want it destroyed to keep everything status quo. Who will win?

Book 1 ends at a crossroad. I have already purchased book 2 and will anxiously continue the tale after completing this review. Highly recommended. Great job, Mr. Robinson!

John Podlaski, author
Cherries - A Vietnam War Novel ( )

A remake on a classic, well done, action is fast and well told. Could not put it down ( )