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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
It was quite good - nearly got four stars. I just found that while the political commentary was fairly accurate, it was also rather obvious. Maybe writing has become more subtle in the last few centuries, which altered my expectations.
It's surprising that a children's book *this* short and *this* well-regarded can be insanely fucking boring. I guess that's just how it is sometimes.
Read for:
EN1004: Explorers and Revolutionaries - Literature 1680-1830
I found this really difficult to get into and in the end, I didn't actually finish it. I must try again sometime.
EN1004: Explorers and Revolutionaries - Literature 1680-1830
I found this really difficult to get into and in the end, I didn't actually finish it. I must try again sometime.
adventurous
slow-paced
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift – Honestly, this is a good adventure story even if you don’t understand the political commentary of the day! Happy Reading!
adventurous
funny
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Certainly reflective, and its fun to try to see exactly what Swift was parodying/satirizing with each new society.
"The dog died on the spot, and we left the doctor endeavouring to recover him, by the same operation. "
And as the dog died, so dies my willingness to continue reading this book. So I DNF it. (at about 1/3)
And as the dog died, so dies my willingness to continue reading this book. So I DNF it. (at about 1/3)
“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
READ 2019
This was a bit of a pain to read, but I'm glad I managed to get through it! I read this for school, and we filmed a video based on it. Gulliver was a travel YouTuber... It was fun. We picked this book because it seemed like one of the easiest to make into a short movie, when I would have probably preferred to read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
As I'm not used to reading literature from the 1700's, it was a little more challenging than I'm used to, even if it's supposed to be quite a light-hearted and adventurous story. Some parts I remember nothing of, because we didn't include it in out script, but the Brobdingnags (I don't even know how to spell it), the Lilliputs, and the horses (DO NOT ask me to write what they were called, I have no idea where to even begin) were all quite fun. A bit dragged out maybe. But you can't really compare adventure novels from 1726 to ones from almost 300 years later, so if you think about it from the time period it was written in, this book was probably quite fresh and fun, and that's why it has become a classic today. Read at own risk ;)
READ 2019
This was a bit of a pain to read, but I'm glad I managed to get through it! I read this for school, and we filmed a video based on it. Gulliver was a travel YouTuber... It was fun. We picked this book because it seemed like one of the easiest to make into a short movie, when I would have probably preferred to read Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
As I'm not used to reading literature from the 1700's, it was a little more challenging than I'm used to, even if it's supposed to be quite a light-hearted and adventurous story. Some parts I remember nothing of, because we didn't include it in out script, but the Brobdingnags (I don't even know how to spell it), the Lilliputs, and the horses (DO NOT ask me to write what they were called, I have no idea where to even begin) were all quite fun. A bit dragged out maybe. But you can't really compare adventure novels from 1726 to ones from almost 300 years later, so if you think about it from the time period it was written in, this book was probably quite fresh and fun, and that's why it has become a classic today. Read at own risk ;)
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Hermoso relato de las aventuras de un intrepido aventurero en sus multiples salidas al mar. Gulliver se encuentra en sus viajes a diversas civilizaciones que reflejan los defectos de la sociedad de una manera satírica. El libro, a pesar de tener una interesante historia, de momentos se vuelve demasiado descriptivo y hace que uno pueda llegar a perder el hilo. En la edicion que leí me molesto el hecho de que tuviera las medidas de longitud inglesas y no las internacionales, haciendo que sea complicado entender las medidas reales.