“Robinson Crusoe” is Painful to Read

I have been reading “Robinson Crusoe” to my son at night, and I don’t think I’ve read a Classic as painful as this. The sentences are long and rambling. Daniel Defoe takes paragraphs to complete a single sentence or thought. I like the description of the scenery and how the MC works to survive in the wild, and the basic “Man vs. Nature” plot is great. I was excited to begin reading, but did the author just transcribe someone’s stream-of-conscious talking? I admit I don’t know the backstory. Was this a real-life experience or just a very vivid imagination? I’m not looking for spoilers, but tell me if I’m missing something here. Seriously, every other sentence goes on a tangent. It’s written in the first person, and if someone was telling me a story like this, I’d be saying, “Get to the point” at least a hundred times.