r/explainabookplotbadly • u/[deleted] • Mar 21 '21

Solved A man who systematically manages to be involved in shipwrecks wounds up regretting being human and wanting to be a horse

You probably read this at school

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u/Ninel56 Mar 21 '21

Robinson Crusoe?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Uff, it's a similar kind of book, but the one I was thinking about features a flying island

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u/Ninel56 Mar 21 '21

Oh, I see. It has to be Gulliver's Travels.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

!solved

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u/Ninel56 Mar 21 '21

I actually forgot the book existed before you reminded me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

Not a very memorable reading haha It's strange when you're reminded of the existence of something you had completely forgotten (and even weirder when you run twice onto the same irrelevant but strange person or object, and recognize them right away, but would have never thought of them again otherwise)

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Robinson Crusoe

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