The book I am reading is Gulliver's Travels by Johnathon Swift. The book was published in 1700's and is 318 pages long. I will be doing a four part blog of every 80 pages. This is my first entry of the blog. Gulliver has shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput. He eventually gets tired and decides to fall asleep on the ground, then wakes up to find himself tied down. He struggles and get his hands free then unties his hair bonds eventually stopping because of the soldiers volleying arrows at him. Well personally I thought it was hard to get into and it conviently has parts that can help with the blog entries.
It gets better as it goes on and Gulliver really gets to enjoy Lilliput and asks Reldresal and others about the history of war between Lilliput and Blefuscu and is told to devise a plan to help fight them off from attacks. His plan is a harpoon style contraption that surprises many Blefuscu peopl making some run before he ties the ships together and bring them back to Lilliput and is greeted as a hero. Gulliver eventually learns more on Lilliput and becomes friends with many which I thought was cool. The Lilliputians are well educated as he describes and the customs of them such as death and law. Gulliver is then sentenced to treason between the two and is to be publicaly urnation from not following the emperors orders. I do not really understand the dialect and style all that much and it has been very descriptive rather than a satire. I do have some second thoughts but it has been nice in the word play aspect but can be improved. It was made in the 1700's which i have to take into consideration. It has been good to this point and I look forward to reading more and hoping it will flow better and get more adventurous and humorous.
Audio Book for Chapter One
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