false <![CDATA[Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165639555m/7733.jpg 7733 431 Shipwrecked castaway Lemuel Gulliver's encounters with the petty, diminutive Lilliputians, the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the abstracted scientists of Laputa, the philosophical Houyhnhnms, and the brutish Yahoos give him new, bitter insights into human behavior. Swift's fantastic and subversive book remains supremely relevant in our own age of distortion, hypocrisy, and irony. <br><br> Edited with an Introduction by Robert DeMaria, Jr. 2394716 book 1726 Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics) total:12333|5:2056|4:4109|3:4394|2:1371|1:403| 12333 43043 16211 617 2 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 11:48:58 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 18 11:49:44 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 5 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988 Wed Dec 05 12:24:13 -0800 2007 Wed Dec 05 12:31:26 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 5 false false Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 03 08:58:30 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 10 07:37:08 -0700 2009 This book was sheer torture.

The writing was dry and bland and boring.
Swift had some really interesting ideas - An island of people no larger than your finger. Another island with people that are 60 feet tall. A floating island, an island of scientists, the island of ...more...]]> 2 2 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 21:24:06 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 16:52:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Jan 24 20:52:16 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 20:52:41 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Tue May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 17:50:24 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 10:48:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Nov 23 05:20:01 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 05:44:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Wed Sep 12 11:58:22 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 12:02:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Nov 12 06:59:56 -0800 2007 Sat Jan 26 17:59:29 -0800 2008 2 1 false true Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 21:21:28 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 09 10:00:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false true Tue Oct 21 18:09:38 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 21 18:12:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri Sep 19 07:23:27 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 07:23:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 11:59:30 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 18 12:44:46 -0700 2008
The CCLaP 100: In which I read a hu...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1966 Sat Jul 05 06:13:40 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 29 06:11:10 -0700 2008 Gulliver's Travels must have been a freeing book to write, lambasting as it does much of polite society. It has the feeling of having come out all of a piece.

At the time I read this, I felt like I was living caught between Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Although his journeys to those two ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 09:17:26 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 03 10:49:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Sep 02 21:42:57 -0700 2007 Fri Feb 15 17:55:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Nov 24 17:59:11 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 26 18:46:29 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Jan 26 17:34:43 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 26 17:35:01 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 04 15:12:33 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 15:32:36 -0800 2009 Gulliver's Travels is a mythical book, that has Gulliver setting sail to go to different places. It is interesting to see how he copes with these situations and encounters, weather it be the finger sized Lilliputians or the giants people of Brobdingnag. Some of the adventures he goes on has him ensl...more...]]> 5 0 false true Tue Aug 11 07:51:09 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 07:51:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=7733