书籍介绍
Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names have entered the English language: notably the minute inhabitants of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, and the Yahoos in Houyhnhnmland, where talking horses are the dominant species. It spares no vested interest from its irreverent wit, and its attack on political and financial corruption, as well as abuses in science, continue to resonate in our own times.
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我错了，以前我一直觉得大不列颠语言有什么油煤的地方啊果然还是中文最赤裸裸的有爱了，看了Gulliver's Travels 以后我直接跪了原来英文也可以这么有爱的！
有些句子和单词还挺好的...
无法容忍阔别五年妻儿最终终日与马为伴 注定失去的乌托邦究竟是见还是不见为好……
绝对不能否认他写的好。可是读得辛苦，步步小心，留神Swift的real intention，寻找瑰丽旅途的现实对照物。更别提当他把讽刺批判做到日月不明，让人无法分辨的时候，心中的痛苦纠结了。唉唉，遇到这样的技术狂人，读读像the modest proposal这样的小短篇就好了，不要和自己过不去。
被某榜单评为English novel no.1..不论思想内涵..文笔不能再好..适合在英文写作前抱佛脚用..Audio version搭配使用
为教课重读。虽然行文略长，但是读起来并不困难，很多地方确实很有趣，特别是narrator一本正经的讽刺英国政治文化的第四章（也是我要用来与Oroonoko and Interesting Narrative对比的章节）。但是正是由于本身的讽刺和戏仿，导致无法断言叙述者本身是否支持这种奴役行为，以及他本身建立的那种master-slave binaries (civilization vs. barbarism, good vs. evil, noble vs. indecent, rational and irrational etc.)是真的反应了人性的阴暗面还是在为正在扩张的英帝国的殖民寻求一种文本上的支持。
2015.11.26（整理记录自己看过的书）
A monument in literature. The satire is sharp and the imagination is wild, we can see many masterpieces originate from this work. An interesting fact: the computer science has introduced the big-endian and little-endian to describe how the data arrange.
几百年前的小书，让我们发现其实我们并没有进步太多
可能还是需要读下译本