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Gulliver’s Travels

Jonathan Swift

Start date: February 15, 2017

Finish date: March 15, 2017

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Jun 01, 2017 Grace rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mccrum-s-100-greatest, 2016-reads

#3 on my chronological reading of the McCrum list. Great and so glad that I finally read it (after trying about 10 years ago and giving up!)... As in Pilgrim's Progress, I see the effect on novels throughout history now. Struggling against the desire to give EVERY book on the list a 5, but I was going to give it a 4.5. But despite how difficult the reading was, it was truly a great read. Although almost excruciating in the number of things I had to define and learn historically!
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Oct 17, 2019 Annette rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-read, classic-challenge-2019, catching-up-on-classics-read, 2019

I have had this book on my shelf for a long time and I really looked forward to reading it. It was just ok and very slow going. I’m not sure which voyage I liked best but the third tale was the hardest to get through.

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