April 5th, 2009
So I finished my book. It was pretty good, the way they went into detail about the strange people he comes into contact with was really interesting. I think that how off-the-wall some of these things are is how I stayed interested so long.
For his next voyage he went to a place called Laputa. To me, this voyage wasn't as good as the ones before. He set out on another adventure on August 5th, 1706. His ship was then attacked by pirates, and then they abandoned him near a small rocky island near India. But he was rescued by the flying island of Laputa. They had sent down a chain with a chair attached to the end of it and pulled him up. It was a kingdom that was fully into math and music. They described "The Engine" which sounds a lot like a computer, and they also talked about aerial bombardment, so they would take advantage of the flying island. He ends up going to a magicians house and talking to him about ghosts and historical stuff. He also sees the struldbrugs, who are a group of immortals who look super old. They seem to be considered unfortunate. Gulliver is taken to Balnibarbi to wait for a Dutch man to take him to Japan. He ends up getting home and he is determined to stay there forever.
Even thoguh he said he would stay home forever, he sets out on another voyage. This time its to a voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms. I have no idea how that is supposed to be pronounced. His crew is still all full of pirates and he gets abandoned in a landing boat and the first people he comes into contact with are a race of hideous deformed creatures. He meets a horse and comes to find out that they horses (Houyhnhnms) are the rulers of the creature things (Yahoos). Gulliver becomes a part of the horses household and comes to admire them. Then there is a meeting with the horses and they decide that he is just a Yahoo, and that he is also a danger to their society, and he gets banished. He is rescued by a Portuguese ship, and comes to realize that the captain is a Yahoo, and he is actually a really nice person. He returns home and spends the rest of his life at home, kind of away from his wife. He also talks to horses a lot at the stables.
Okay, so over all it was a pretty cool book. It had really good ideas and for the most part it kept me interested.
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