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  • If you understand going into Gulliver that it's satirical, you'll probably enjoy it. If you think of it as just an interesting adventure story, it will bore you to death. I'm a science studies student, so I was reading for Swift's satire on the Royal Society and other such things.
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    If you understand going into Gulliver that it's satirical, you'll probably enjoy it. If you think of it as just an interesting adventure story, it will bore you to death. I'm a science studies student, so I was reading for Swift's satire on the Royal Society and other such things.
    Taken as a whole, the book is a bit daunting. Luckily it's broken up into 4 parts, so I took it bit by bit. It was enjoyable, but probably not something I'd read again - at least not in its entirety.

    

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