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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
I am glad I read this book. I feel reading classics can only benefit you since they have endured for so long. The story was well written but it simply wasn't my thing. I didn't enjoy the places and people he ran into. It was almost a abstract or surreal kind of story which I don't care for. I still encourage people to read this because even though it may not have been my thing it might be yours!
When I first read it for school, I was intrigued by how a human mind can work that way and how did he even think of making books about floating islands and giant people. I was young and not into reading ok, I know better now that I've read books from everything like shatter me to the book Thief. My young was plain dumb
Now about the plot, hmm shall we say it was adventures it was interesting enough to keep me going on but in it is honestly way overrated. I found him unnecessarily rude and the one person narrative was getting on my nerves
But this is the first book that got me into reading and everything so I'll give it a solid 3
Now about the plot, hmm shall we say it was adventures it was interesting enough to keep me going on but in it is honestly way overrated. I found him unnecessarily rude and the one person narrative was getting on my nerves
But this is the first book that got me into reading and everything so I'll give it a solid 3
funny
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
The first two journeys were hilarious but the last two appeared a bit repetitive. However, the decay of Gulliver's character is quite fascinating.
Mi género literario favorito son las novelas para adultos jóvenes, y mi nivel de comprensión lectora es por ahí 5 puntos debajo del que se necesita para este libro. No porque las historias sean muy enredadas (yo diría que lo contrario) pero porque es DEMASIADO VIEJO. El inglés es viejo! Y británico! Y usan muchas mas k's y la gramática es diferente! Pero el humor es genial, y las críticas que hace (sobre todo a los políticos) siguen siendo relevantes varios siglos después. Es tan entretenido que fui capaz de terminarlo, así me demorara 30 minutos por página. Pinta escenarios absurdos y hermosos y quisiera haber vivido en el siglo 18 y tomarme una botella de vino con Jonathan Swift.
I began reading this, thinking it would be a fantasy novel about a sailor who continually finds himself shipwrecked in strange lands, with some carefully crafted but direct satire thrown in, but it’s so much more than that. From shitting on the floor in Liliput, to discussing interchanging the use of the mouth and anus while living with the Houyhnhnms, the whole book reads like Swift is coming to terms with a newly discovered coprophilia fetish. Swift loves writing about poop. The first thing he does when arriving at a house in Brobdingnag is run off to take a dump, and when he meets ‘scientists’ in Lagado, one of them is trying to make shit edible, another believes he can cure illness by shoving a bellows up your butthole and sucking the farts out while a third uses poop to solve political crime. That’s also not mentioning the golden shower, the voyeurism and so much more. Swift has a preoccupation with poop throughout the entire novel, and while I’m not one to kink shame, I can only deal with so much shit before it’s too much.
slow-paced
Did not particularly enjoy Gulliver as a character, but at least I have read it now. Hopefully it will gorw on me with some more meditating on it.
I thoroughly enjoyed the first 2 journeys and got hopelessly bogged down in the 3rd. I guess I'm just not clever enough for Swift's biting satire... I can handle the cruder physical comparisons, but the scientific and political commentary was both too heavy handed and too slow moving. At least the physical contrasts had some crasser humor.
I'd have given this one 3 stars if it weren't for the CRUSHINGLY boring 3rd journey, but at least the Yahoo 4th journey was pretty enjoyable. Probably because I like ponies.
I actually would have enjoyed some longer commentary essays in my edition. I'm certain I missed quite a lot of the point of the satire without any sort of expert analysis to smarten me up.
I always thought this was a book that people read for school, but I would be shocked if this were the case. I'm a pretty well-read person, but this was a bit tough to get through in parts. I think something like the Modest Proposal is really the best taste of Swift.
I'd have given this one 3 stars if it weren't for the CRUSHINGLY boring 3rd journey, but at least the Yahoo 4th journey was pretty enjoyable. Probably because I like ponies.
I actually would have enjoyed some longer commentary essays in my edition. I'm certain I missed quite a lot of the point of the satire without any sort of expert analysis to smarten me up.
I always thought this was a book that people read for school, but I would be shocked if this were the case. I'm a pretty well-read person, but this was a bit tough to get through in parts. I think something like the Modest Proposal is really the best taste of Swift.