Finished: Gulliver's Travels (Swift). OMG, one of the most tedious books I've read yet! I just did not enjoy this book AT ALL. I thought maybe coming off of reading one adventurous book, I'd be in a mindset for another, but this book was just inane. I know it is supposed to be some big joke on the English classes, and politics, and the law, and such at the time, but I just couldn't get into it.

I never realized that Gulliver's Travels entailed more than him living amongst the little people of Lilliput. Gulliver had many more adventures...never being happy to stay home for more than a few months after each trying, at times life-threatening, journey. He was BMOC in Lilliput, but then was tinier than the Lilliputians were to him when he journeyed to the giants of Brobdingnag. He also made stops at a floating island where the inhabitants were all mathematically inclined, to a wizardly place who could call dead people back from the dead to chat with you for twenty-four hours, and to an island where the superior species was the horse, and the human-like creatures were called Yahoos.

I suppose my favorite of the lands was the horse-land, Houyhnhnms. I enjoyed the nature of the horses, and their way of life. Of course, this is the part of the book where Swift really let loose on how horrible the human species is in moral and character when he was describing his native land and fellow human beings to the chief of the Houyhnhnms. Anyways....honestly....this book was just not my cup of tea. I'm so glad to be able to check Jonathan Swift and Gulliver's Travels off my list. I hate to say that about any book, though. :-(