"Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift *****

•  Audiobook
•  Irish author
• Narration by David Hyde Pierce
• Originally published1726
• Review:  No wonder this novel is considered a classic which has been enjoyed "in the nursery" and in the library!  Jonathan Swift wrote a story in the 1700s which is absolutely timeless.  On one level this is a delightful fantasy romp to imagined lands with amazing inhabitants.  However, do not be deceived.  This is a philosophical treatise written with tremendous wit and a profound message about the author's desire for truth, indeed his bottomless pit of want for truth.  The author levels his satiric wit at the following topics and fires away:  religion, travel tales, politics, sex, relationships, colonialism, capitalism, prejudice, social superficiality, prejudice, stereotypes and more.  Anyone who has traveled to a culture which is vastly different from their own and reveled in the experience will likely appreciate this book, and those who have not but harbor strong opinions about those folks from another culture......well, it should be required reading! Go ahead, read it and laugh out loud, smile, wince, cringe, and love it!