Memories of your first novel

[Darrell71]

You probably know that Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels as a political satire, Sunskriti, even though it has come to be regarded as a children's story.
The Swiss Family Robinson was written by Johann Wyss and was intended for children.

Mega cringe. I'm glad I got that corrected. Me and my friends had been wrongly assuming for a long time that Swiss Family Robinson was written by Swift, though God knows why. I checked my copy now and saw that I was wrong. Really sorry. Still, I did enjoy SFR!
I know it is a political satire, but it's so incredibly boring, even as a satire. I mean come on, you just don't feel like turning the page!

Quote from Frank McCourt :
Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest English writers
Frank:I thought Jonathan Swift was Irish
Teacher : Does that means that if I am from The Virgin Island, am a virgin?

The population of Virgin Island would decline quickly in that case!

[Anita Bensoussane]

I'm glad I got that corrected. Me and my friends had been wrongly assuming for a long time that Swiss Family Robinson was written by Swift...

No worries. When you read a lot of books you're almost bound to get muddled occasionally. Just the other day I confused Tony by commenting on Eric Leyland's All Hands on Deck but referring to it (twice!) as Full Steam Ahead. I haven't even read Full Steam Ahead!

I know it [Gulliver's Travels] is a political satire, but it's so incredibly boring, even as a satire. I mean come on, you just don't feel like turning the page!

I must admit I like Gulliver's Travels, but you have to be in the right mood for it.

[Rob Houghton]

I must admit I like Gulliver's Travels, but you have to be in the right mood for it.

as opposed to the 'Left mood' ?

I must admit I've had Gulliver's Travels for years but never read it all the way through!

[John Pickup]

I must admit that I couldn't get into Gullivers Travels at all when I started it many years ago. I never did complete it.

[Chrissie777]

I felt the same.

[floragord]

The very first Enid Blyton novels I recall reading are the Faraway Tree trilogy, and in adult "literature" Alice Walworth Graham's THE VOWS OF THE PEACOCK and T E Lawrence SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM - not much variety there but both fabulous reads.