Gulliver's Travels: 1400 Headwords

Pros: Swift's brilliant satire is exactly on mark

Cons: none

The Bottom Line: The BEST Satire ever written - and I mean that!

Review: Gulliver's Travels is a scathing satire written about 18th century England by the top satirist of his age.

Jonathan Swift is Gulliver - and is the one who travels the world and runs into people who symbolize specifically the British people...

Pros: Very entertaining and thought-provoking

Cons: None

Review: If you haven't had the pleasure of reading Gulliver's Travels, you are in for a treat. The story tells of Gulliver, a sailor who is shipwrecked on an island in which things are drastically different. He meets a race of little people named Lilliputians...

Pros: It's the classic, with a lot of support for modern readers.

Cons: The footnotes again, and sometimes Swift himself.

The Bottom Line: This is a very useful edition of the classic.

Review: Jonathan Swift, in the English-speaking world, at least, is synonymous with barbed, bitter satire. Perhaps it is partly the circumstances of history -- Swift's time is no longer a living reality -- and partly the result of a dumbed-down, in-your-face ...

Pros: Entertaining and imaginative story

Cons: Rambles in some places.

The Bottom Line: I would recommend this story to anyone looking for an intelligent, whimsical, and entertaining story. I think it has an undeniable appeal, that's lasted for almost 300 years.

Review: This story is basically a fictitious travelogue that chronicles the adventures of one Captain Lemuel Gulliver. The story was first published in 1726 as an autobiographical account, although most realized it was actually written by Swift. It is...

Pros: Well, it is a classic. Also, I thought a few of its concepts were briefly entertaining

Cons: Too wordy to be gripping and interesting, and too ridiculous to be taken seriously for the issues it addresses

Review: Let me start off on the right foot by admitting that this book, in all fairness, had a lot going against it at the time that I read it.

1. Although I'm an avid reader, I hate being told to read something. So when my English teacher slapped...