Gulliver's Travels is one of those books that stands clearly as one of the great classics of English Literature. Gulliver's progression from one fantastic world to the next slowly instills a change in the narrator and brings him to the point of despising his own country and even the human race. Though it is really well done, there were a few times that I found the allegory very hard to interpret. Some of the most obvious satire took aim at the corruption of the judicial process, the madness of legislators and the avarice of humanity. At times I found myself laughing out loud especially with some of the descriptions of lawyers and state-funded science programs (the cure for colic was worth the price of the book). The final adventure was in some ways the most ridiculous but was also the most revealing. The satire takes a very serious and sad turn and I was left feeling a little melancholy about my own race.
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