Rating: ⭐⬜⬜⬜⬜
Title: Gulliver's Travels
Author: Jonathan Swift
Genre: Classics / Fiction
Setting: Lilliput / Brobdingnag / England
Month Read: April 2022
Book Type: Paperback
Publication: Original: 1726
Publisher: Barnes and Noble Classics
Pages: 317
*PBS Great American Reads Pick
TRIGGER WARNING-
Abandonement / Sexual Content / Violence / Outdated References / Maybe Bestiality?
"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."
No Spoiler Summary:
Gulliver's Travels is a book about a Doctor and Sailor, and his adventures to several places. He writes detailed entries about the locations, people, and his life while on his travels.
Review:
I did a buddy read with @Reading_and_Wrighting and we did not have as good of a time as we did with Gone with the Wind. Most of our back and forth was about how we haven't read the book in a few days, or can this be over with, or how there were a few good things about the book, but it gets so old so fast.
This entire book is like being in a conversation of jokes that you don't get the references to. I just absolutely hated it. I'm also fine saying I just didn't understand the book, or the purpose of the book. At the end of the day I read it, and it can go be retired to a bookshelf now. I am surprised, that 4 books into the 'classics' I'm doing off the Great American Reads list, this was the first one that I really didn't like at all. I've been pretty lucky, and hoping my next few reads are great.
Recommendation:
For a travel book:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri
"Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions."
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