06-09-2014, 06:23 AM
(06-08-2014, 10:23 PM)puggsoy Wrote: I'm currently continuing Gulliver's Travels, I'd taken a long pause in the middle of Part 3 (near the end of him describing the various academies in Balnibarbi). Right now I'm in the middle of Part 4, where he explains a bunch of political stuff to his master Houyhnhnm.
As someone who read Gulliver's Travels before I went off to college, I have to say that it is a pretty good (although lengthy) read. It is very descriptive with the details (especially in the third part) and the satire of human society is very thought out.
Personally, I wasn't that interested with part three because the antics Gulliver went through dwarfed in comparison to his misadventures in parts one and two. By part four, though, that's when it becomes a lot more interesting for me and really makes you think about the human race as a whole.