farnz 's review for:

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

2.0

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I started reading this book because It was the lunch period and I was bored. This being an iBook, it was the only accessible book to keep me busy. And I hated it. There were aspects that I liked such as the concept of the Lilliputians and the flying island and so on but the narrative was so annoying that I just couldn't care for him at all. I HATED the narrator. He was such a pompous ass. The Houyhnhnms pissed me off and so did the constant use of the word, 'Master'. I often found myself bored and calculating how many pages out of 846 were left which is never a good sign. The writing was so bland. And let me just say that my opinion of the king in the second part increased with his refusal of such a "great" opportunity. Although we were told these kings and queens were great I never really cared or had any respect for them. They just annoyed me for the most part. And that ending. The freaking narrator abandons his family his whole life and then continues to think he is superior to everyone else and that the whole of human kind is a worthless pice of shit that doesn't deserve to exist. He can't even stand to see his family. He doesn't even want to see them in the same room.

Some further thoughts:

- Interesting view on politics.
- some funny parts.
- how many languages does he speak? It can't be easy for a man or woman of that age to learn to learn so many languages so easily.
- just listen to your wife and stop going on the sea
- Glubbdubdrib was interesting. A necromancer prince. Spirits of Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Caesar and Pompey, Brutus to converse with.
- What would you do if you were born immortal? Immortality portrayed very unpleasantly.
- “This is enough to say upon the subject of my diet, wherewith other travellers fill their books, as if the readers were personally concerned whether we fare well or ill.”(76%)
Nice line but that didn't stop you from giving boring directions and talking about sails.