Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

[Rachel]

I recently read one of the classics, Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726 by Irish author Jonathan Swift. Although he takes a snarky satirical view of the political climate of his times and cleverly places it into an imaginative world, I still found this a difficult book to fully enjoy as a modern reader. Here is ⭐⭐⭐ my review

[Joanne]

Good for you for reading through it-personally have never made it through. I am trying to get over the fact, that just because it is "a classic" I have to read it. LoL, like the PBT Tag, if it does not work
for me, I am not doing. I do have a lot of respect though for those
of you who expand your reading to the limits. I enjoyed your review.

[Theresa]

I whole-heartedly agree with your review and it was well phrased!

I read this in full, unabridged, at leat 30 years ago, probably longer, and had the same reaction. At the time I picked it up to read I just remembered the abridged excerpts we read in junior high and thought it an entertaining adventure to a land with very small people and then very large ones. I was taken aback at what it really was! Did read whole and thought the supposed satire was not really there, that it was showing Swift's beliefs.

[Rachel]

Theresa wrote: "I whole-heartedly agree with your review and it was well phrased!

I read this in full, unabridged, at leat 30 years ago, probably longer, and had the same reaction. At the time I picked it up to ..."
Haha so true, I think I had read little bits of a kind of picture book version with my kids which looked pretty entertaining. The reality of the actual book, not so much!