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Gulliver's Travels
by Nicholas Eliopulos, Jonathan Swift
Ahh the last of a series of books I needed to review, and this one was at least more recent than some others.
I'd been meaning to read this book for some time and have it in at least two formats, but I finally got around to it via audio format. I actually quite enjoyed it as an audiobook, which is not always the case. The story is quite well-known: an Englishman takes several journeys by sea and ends up in multiple places: sometimes the people he encounter are very small; sometimes the people he encounters are very large, and sometimes the most civilized individuals he interacts with are horses. (I'll bet David Hyde Pierce had a good time with those names and the horse language.) In commenting on the similarities between these other cultures and his own, Gulliver's narration provides us with Swift's clear and less-than-rosy commentary on English society, justice, and practices. Gulliver's description of the history and politics of some of these other cultures can be a bit tedious when it comes to easy reading, but it's clever nonetheless.
I'd been meaning to read this book for some time and have it in at least two formats, but I finally got around to it via audio format. I actually quite enjoyed it as an audiobook, which is not always the case. The story is quite well-known: an Englishman takes several journeys by sea and ends up in multiple places: sometimes the people he encounter are very small; sometimes the people he encounters are very large, and sometimes the most civilized individuals he interacts with are horses. (I'll bet David Hyde Pierce had a good time with those names and the horse language.) In commenting on the similarities between these other cultures and his own, Gulliver's narration provides us with Swift's clear and less-than-rosy commentary on English society, justice, and practices. Gulliver's description of the history and politics of some of these other cultures can be a bit tedious when it comes to easy reading, but it's clever nonetheless.