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English 45B
Rating: 3/5
Pages: 422
Started: 31 January 2024
Finished: 5 February 2024
Summary:
Explorer Lemuel Gulliver finds himself marooned on a series of islands inhabited by strange creatures: an island of people only a few inches tall, a land of giants, a land in the sky, and a place where loquacious sentient equine beings have power. In each new land, his perspective is irrevocably altered.
Thoughts:
I hated the first two chapters of this book--I was bored, saw no point in reading a fantastical novel without compelling characters or a suspenseful plot. But the final chapter was interesting; the moral questioning was a bit more overt and there seemed to be a lot more character and emotional stakes in that part. It was interesting to compare this novel to Robinson Crusoe throughout though, and I appreciated the fact that this book was a far-less-racist political commentary even if it was a bit boring.