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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
challenging
medium-paced
Just don’t think this was my cup of tea to be honest. Will try again with classics though.
Wow Swift kinda predicted AI!
Even though most of the specific satire went right over my head, the satirizing of the state of humanity (e.g., legal/justice system, politics, war etc.) deeply resonated. It was a bit dry and tedious at times, but the philosophical discussions (e.g., death/immortality) were interesting. I was chuckling along as well.
Highly recommend this for deeper analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohl5b...
Even though most of the specific satire went right over my head, the satirizing of the state of humanity (e.g., legal/justice system, politics, war etc.) deeply resonated. It was a bit dry and tedious at times, but the philosophical discussions (e.g., death/immortality) were interesting. I was chuckling along as well.
Highly recommend this for deeper analysis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohl5b...
Not one of my favorite classic stories and not at all what I expected. Of course, being Jonathan Swift who also wrote “A Modest Proposal”, it was bound to be a very strange journey into different lands created in the mind of Swift only and no one else. I found it hard to read because of the made of people and language that was not only hard to pronounce but follow along with Gulliver as he made he journey through the different lands. Trying to discern between the different people he encountered was hard enough without figuring in the time span as well.
I found it hard to believe that a man would travel as much and encounter this many extravagant creatures within the span of his life, leaving his happy wife at home with all their children. What wife would just accept that from her husband. I guess it is fiction but I found it tedious and long and drawn out and nothing I really enjoyed much of.
I found it hard to believe that a man would travel as much and encounter this many extravagant creatures within the span of his life, leaving his happy wife at home with all their children. What wife would just accept that from her husband. I guess it is fiction but I found it tedious and long and drawn out and nothing I really enjoyed much of.
Swift gør nogle skarpe observationer om menneskeligheden, men de er få og der er langt imellem dem... Alt rundt om guldkornene er desværre enormt kedeligt. Måtte trække mig igennem bogen.
Reading this after having read Robinson Crusoe has put it massively into perspective. I felt it was a really enjoyable story.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This book is such a drag and a perfect example of why we as a society need to tell men to shut up more.
I read it back when I was 13 or so and found it so boring. Listened to via CraftLit and it was much more enjoyable.
Conclusions: Swift does not like the Whigs. People are Yahoos and we like it that way.
Conclusions: Swift does not like the Whigs. People are Yahoos and we like it that way.