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3.92 AVERAGE
3.92 AVERAGE
dark
fast-paced
Book 3 / 30 days Challenge
I feel like there are reviews longer than the actual book!
Honestly I can't say I had fun reading this book, I was actually grossed out at some parts which is so weird. I did laugh out loud because its just make you say "what the fuck" and nervous laugh about it, loved it and need to read more books from this author.
I feel like there are reviews longer than the actual book!
Honestly I can't say I had fun reading this book, I was actually grossed out at some parts which is so weird. I did laugh out loud because its just make you say "what the fuck" and nervous laugh about it, loved it and need to read more books from this author.
This is probably the greatest piece of satire that I have ever read, and possibly the one that effected the most change. By presenting itself as an honest op-ed piece, Swift was able to get people really talking about the problems of the poor, mostly Irish, lower class. By getting people to say "I would never!", he also got them to say "What would I?"
This is also a wickedly smart writing. Swift is one of my favorite writers, and that especially shows here. Being in on the joke makes A Modest Proposal hilarious. This easily sits on my shelf as one of my most influential works.
This is also a wickedly smart writing. Swift is one of my favorite writers, and that especially shows here. Being in on the joke makes A Modest Proposal hilarious. This easily sits on my shelf as one of my most influential works.
Swift's treatise lives up to its reputation, hilarious and somewhat offensive. His serious delivery of the prescription of eating Irish children still shocks and amuses, especially in its self-conscious spearing of prescriptive theorists. Change the name of the country and alter the situation a bit and the satire could be a contemporary work, if only we still had talented satirists. It was fun to finally read the essay in its entirety. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys jokes about eating people or who enjoy satire.
Cannibalism seems a great solution to too many poor people. Eat the children! The title essay was very good, fun satire with a clear and punchy message behind it, and I rather enjoyed the poem about city rain, but that last essay (An Examination Of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, And Enormities, In The City of Dublin) was seriously making my eyes glaze over, so something of a mixed bag overall.
If you like satire, have a tolerance for English from the 1700s and can take a joke it's worth a read.
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funny
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