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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
Not an easy book to read, the language, political metaphors and crazily insane detail can be a chore to get through. Push that aside, give yourself plenty of time, peace and quiet and you have yourself a pretty imaginative, if not slightly bizarre story! You've got to give it to Swift he has created a whole world of intricately strange and somehow almost believeable places and charterers...almost. I'm glad I read it, and when you take the context into account it's pretty impressive!
This is my second time through this novel. I read it once before my senior year in high school. The character of Gulliver is a doctor who constantly abandons his family in order to search for adventure and not be tied down. This of course leads him to his most famous adventure, waking up being tied down on the island of Lilliput. However, the novel goes into four other main worlds. Each world is a allegory for something happening in the world at the time of Sift's writing. Gulliver is one of the first man-child characters to be brought to life on the page, at least that I know of. The story is interesting and well written for a story of that time. I still enjoyed the story. I'm glad I revisited it for the reading challenge.
adventurous
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It is pretty good but a pain in the ass to read
This is a DNF for me. I was not grabbed, and based on the discussions and introductions, resent the protagonist way too much!
Can't and won't deal with the sexism
Read for uni, 3.5 *. I quite enjoyed this although it did feel a bit long sometimes. Maybe it has to do with the writing since it is written in the beginning of the 1700s.