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Aug 05, 2021chesswiz rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Gulliver’s Travels is about a traveler who finds many interesting islands. When I first read this book, I only remember reading the first two places he explores. On the first island, he is a giant compared to the Lilliputians. On the…
Mar 06, 2021The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
📕 Swift's most popular work is Gulliver's Travels. Everyone knows about the Lilliputians and the Brobdingnagians, and everyone also knows how hard it is to spell Houyhnhnm. Some feel that in referring to human beings as the "most…
Aug 05, 2020
The copy of the book that I received after requesting Gulliver's Travels was such a faint and small print that I could not read it. I am 80 years old and cannot read light gray on a yellowed page well at all. I have now re-ordered,…
Jul 26, 2020
Guliver’s travels is a surreal novel depicting English politics at the time. It was written in 1723 and is still popular to this day. The metaphors and analogies it uses to explain the political aspects of England are both surreal yet…
Mar 19, 2020Tarion_2020 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
These consecutive journeys of Lemuel Gulliver still resonate in the human condition.
Jan 11, 2020Highdald rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
When first published in 1726, much of the world was still a mystery and the fantastic lands and civilizations Gulliver stumbled upon were, perhaps, within the realm of possibility. It is good writing and a great glimpse into the British…
Jan 03, 2020
This is not at all an easy read and therein lied its appeal to me because I now enjoy challenging reads. I have read it not once, but 4 times already. I read many different versions of it. The one available in public domain has a nice…
Nov 16, 2019blue_dog_17792 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Great book. Parts 3 and 4, not so much.
Jun 04, 2019Anita_Dickey rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I read this book to fulfil the goal read a book that inspiried a common phrase or idiom. in this case the word was yahoo. (it was one of the books suggested for the prompt by the internet) i didn't find it horrible. i did read the abriged…
Oct 12, 2018Cowjuice15 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Love the stories, but difficult read, especially since the font is much too small
Aug 24, 2018lukasevansherman rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"How many villains have been exalted to the highest places of trust, power, dignity, and profit: how great a share in the motions and events of courts, councils, and senates might be challenged by bawds, whores, pimps, parasites, and…
Aug 13, 2018dennismmiller rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
In Swift's classic satire, the adventure-prone naval surgeon Gulliver finds himself repeatedly stranded in strange lands, where he meets the tiny Lilliputians, the giant Brobdingnagians, the ivory tower intellectuals of Laputa, and the…
Jul 21, 2018
I'm not Irish, but I can understand the idea of traveling to distant lands, and seeing people who are like you used as slaves. Get out of there fast before you are lumped in with them... Also, the real meaning of "Yahoo"? Maybe that…
Mar 03, 2018sillylittlechalupa rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This book was assigned to me as summer reading and I found it toneless, very long, and tedious. It was a book that I tried time and again to finish (just for the sake of the assignment), but the story itself was so uncompelling I found…
Nov 08, 2017scribby rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is, of course, often mistaken for a children’s book, and for obvious reasons. First there is a voyage to a land of little people, then to a land of giants, then an island floating in the sky and inhabited by comical mad…
Aug 11, 2016ArapahoeJeremiah rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
The book chronicles the adventures of world traveller Gulliver, and is a parody of travel books of the time. It’s divided into four sections that correspond with the four locations he visits. The first two are rather familiar — he’s…
Jun 20, 2014alysalle rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
It started out slow, but I thought Part 2 and Part 3 were much better than Part 1 and it is always interesting reading something that was written in a different time period to see what the perceptions of the world were at that time!
Apr 17, 2013kyivuk04 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
3 stars because it is a classic and because it was a good story idea. With that said, the writing style is often hard to understand and the storyline is very dull.
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Aug 14, 2012soccergirl8 rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
it really wasn't that good. the only parts that were fast paced and wanted you to read more were very short. however the idea of the book was very creative.
Mar 31, 2011vwruleschick rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
it was an OK read, although it was a little hard to relate as this was written in the 1770s. Got to give the author credit for his idea on this story in 4 parts about his travels and discussing who and what he encounters and how it…
Jun 28, 2008Dani rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
Boring, very difficult to get through.