trit is currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
I’m male, from Canada. I’ve been a DailyLit member since August 29, 2010. My reading interests include history, fantasy, classic, and theory.
Books
- The Three Musketeers 72% complete
- The Count of Monte Cristo 81% complete
- The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 finished
- Grimm's Fairy Tales finished
- Burn This Book finished
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Robin Hood finished
- The Art of War finished
- Spirits in Bondage finished
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes finished
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Gulliver's Travels finished
Posts
Robin Hood - A lot of fun!
The book was a whole lot of fun to read, and an excellent book for daily lit, since it's easy to pick up each day. It does lack depth in the way that it is written, however-with fairly simple story lines, and not a great deal of depth in the characters.
Gulliver's Travels - Too negative politically
Gulliver's Travels, although well-written, displays a level of ignorance concerning human nature and political reasoning that renders it an almost entirely useless expense of time. The author criticizes certain systems and decisions made by various political leaders, without having an inkling to the purposes for the systems and decisions. Furthermore, the book represents the still popular trend of criticizing the political, economic, and judicial systems without providing any type of alternative or method for improvement. It is the hippie protesting the G20 and G8 summits, without having any ideas for improvement. After all, would it be better that we had no system and resorted to anarchy? Perhaps the 20 countries should not try to get together and at least make some movements towards improvement of the world?
Gulliver's Travels - Too negative politically
I am a political science student at Redeemer University College in my fourth year. I am planning on continuing on to receive my Masters in political science. I tell you this because I want you to understand where I am coming from in my review. I believe this book to be a rather skewed representation of British politics during the time that it was written. Britain had much to be proud of, but this book represents all that they had to be ashamed of-however, the positive aspects are left out almost entirely, which I believe is unfortunate. In addition to this, the writing style is not particularly engaging. So, not only is this book politically of-kilter, it is not all that engaging to read.