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A true classic, really well-written, laugh-out-loud funny at times, and absurd throughout. I especially loved the way Cervantes made commentary on himself and his plagiarist.

Still, not gonna lie, I struggled to get through the book. It‘s too long and repetitive, and it felt like a slog to get to the good stuff.

But I finished! And thus I shall embark upon a pastoral life. Or just start another book. 😃

⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

#1001books

Simon Vance is one of my favorite narrators and he‘s fabulous on this recording on Don Quixote.

That said, when he reads for Sancho, he sounds a LOT like Noel Fielding as Tony Harrison.

So, while Sancho is really nothing like Tony (he knows nothing of the crunch), after about 30 hours, I am starting to picture Sancho like this. Only on an ass.

🤣

Confession: I‘ve never paid much attention to Don Quixote, and assumed it was some epic, stuffy, serious classic. It‘s on the #1001books list so I decided to read it anyway.

Imagine my surprise to find that, while it is epic, it‘s not the least bit stuffy. I‘m laughing a whole lot at the exploits of the knight of the rueful countenance and Sancho and his ass.

Am I doing this wrong, or is it supposed to be absurd and hilarious?

When you trying to read for the #wintergames but your dog decides to lay on it and stare at you until you give up. Fine, pup, I just wont ever finish this book.

@LibrarianRyan #teamelectricsex

Embarking on a quest to revive chivalry suggests that Alonso Quixano (better known as Don Quixote de La Mancha) was #LivingForLove

#Movember @Cinfhen

A #classicIhaventread (yet). #gratefulreads @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Sancho Panza is awesome.

Day 19 - #GratefulReads #classicyouenjoyed

@OriginalCyn620 @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Yes I abandoned this one and yes I have it 2 stars anyways. I actually love Don Quixote and Sancho. I loved it every time they bantered or fought giant windmills and charged at people who he thought were the “enemy” and be all
Bumbling. Those are the bits I Loved and how positive he always stayed, searching for love.

But the short stories throughout took me out of the story. So I bailed

#GratefulReads This is my favorite novel #Over500Pages
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

Oh, Don Quixote! You‘re on my to read list, along with so many other #chunkster classics! I do know of his reputation...tilting at windmills, thinking he is a knight, etc. #TheSwordFight #SoaringScores

#SebastianKitty wanted in the photo too! #catsoflitsy

I‘m stuck in the 20th century as far as literary critique of this one goes; critics in that era came to view the story as a tragedy, where Don Quixote‘s simple idealism is rendered useless by a harsh reality. Sure, there are plenty of quick quips and slapstick encounters, but really, the truth at the heart of the story is terribly sad. Full review here: http://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/don-quixote-miguel-de-cervantes-saavedra/ #ClassicBooks

Saying hello to Don Quixote and Sancho Panza on the It's A Small World Ride! Or, nerdspotting, as I now like to call it when I find bookish references out in the world 🤓
#disney #waltdisneyworld #magickingdom

This book has been on my TBR forever. I may read it this year. Here‘s the Don Quixote sculpture on our campus.

#quotsysept19 @TK-421
#Iron

#RedRoseSeptember Don Quixote is definitely a #PoorMisguidedFool, lol! 😂
@arlenefinnigan @cinfhen

When I asked which #chunkster to read for the rest of the summer, the votes overwhelmingly came back in favor of Don Quixote! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Edith Grossman is a personal hero of mine, and her translation of DQ (of course) got gushing reviews, so that's the edition I'm reading 😁 My weekend is today/tomorrow, so I'll definitely be diving in before I'm back at work!

I‘ll be honest, my 3rd day with Don and I‘m tired of his antics. Thankfully only Part I is assigned.

We‘re in my summer “office” reading - her book isn‘t assigned however, lucky duck. 😎

Hands down, one of my FAVORITE BOOKS IN THE WORLD!!

“Everyone is the son of his works.” 👌🏾

Up next for assigned reading and writing.

Look at the adorable bookmark my little brother got me in Spain! I‘m in love. 😻

10 books that have been on my TBR for at least 2 years:

Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Beguiled by Thomas Cullinan
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
The Door by Magda Szabo
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
A Parisian Affair by Guy de Maupassant

At a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to remember, there lived a little while ago one of those gentlemen who are wont to keep a lance in the rack, an old buckler, a lean horse and a swift greyhound.
#DonQuixote #MiguelDeCervantesSaavedra #firstline #openingline #funkopop #popvinyl #FreddyFunko #Alice #book #books #bookmark #bookmarks #bookmarket #bookmarkets #bookmoment #bookmoments #Classics #Fiction #Literature #SpanishLiterature

I went on my first #audiowalk today! Woot!! If you guys are on Garmin Connect- look me up! I‘m raven_lovely

Audio baking this morning with Don Quixote - 36 hr audio version. 😳

This tome held me up at FAA security. They searched my backpack, pulled out this book, and flipped through its pages until they pronounced it “Good.” I said, “It is good. It‘s Don Quixote!” 😊Blog Post: Let's Talk About Don Quixote: https://www.greatbookstudy.com/2019/06/time-to-talk-about-don-quixote.html

Made it to page 500 this morning. Woohoo! #gilmoregirlsreadingchallenge

DQ and Sancho are too much! I am enjoying this classic despite the fact that it‘s taking me forever to read. But I do wish I could read it in Spanish and that I had an advanced degree in Spanish history and culture. 😂 I am sure so much goes over my head. #gilmoregirlsreadingchallenge

Four of my favorite novels where the narrator has a tenuous connection to reality. All four are highly recommended & unique approaches to reality. #WhereIsMyMind #MayMovieMagic
@rohit-sawant @Cinfhen

one of the funniest book

This is my current work Audio book. IMO it‘s a great ‘work and read‘ book because I can listen to it without losing focus on what I need to do. Parts of it have made me laugh/ but mostly I enjoy it as background noise. I know a #classic should probably be enjoyed with a cup of tea and an armchair- but ya gotta work with what ya got!

I finally finished!! ✔️ I'm rather proud of myself. I mostly read it in 20 page chunks, which was about all I could manage at a time

I will say I liked the first half better than the second, and that there were way too many characters for me to keep track of properly 😂
Altogether a pick! #classics

(Also, Happy May the Fourth!! ♥️ #starwarsday )

Is often said that we have no satisfactory translation of DQ. To those who are familiar with the original, it‘s savours of truism or platitude to say so...It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly unmanageable, or that the untranslated words...are so superabundant, but rather that the sententious terseness to which the humor of the book owes its flavor is peculiar to Spanish, and can at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue.

A rare photo of my 16-year-old #Sancho spending time on my lap. Usually, he prefers his heated bed. #spoiled #dogsoflitsy

I'm at page 557 out of 930!! Cheer me on??! 😂

There's a movie coming out now in the US based on this book I think only in theaters one night. April 10. And Adam Driver is in it!!! I guess the movie has been in production for a really long time- It's called The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

It took a minute (I persisted because my sister Sara loves it) but I'm finally getting into Don Quixote.

I‘m just reminiscing about the summer that I read this wonderful, crazy, funny book. Sancho Panza is one of my favourite characters ever. 😊

Well isn't that interesting...

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/5-favorite-books-of-albert-einstein

#QuotsyMar19 Day 25: History as the #Rival of time. This remains one of my absolute favourite books of all time.

Getting ready for my trip to Spain!

The first on the list and probably the one I‘m most proud of, because I read it in Spanish! (It took me 7 months.) Pictured with my fantastic Litographs T-shirt! #thewelleducatedmind #classics #greatbooks #spanishliterature

I am in the process of putting together a list of books I've read in my twenties to re-read - some I liked, some I didn't - to see what I will make of them a decade or more later. I've been re-reading books regularly of course, some of them many times (for example Anna Karenina) but I want to do this in a more planned way, to run in tandem with my lifetime reading plan. (Right now based on 1001 books / Guardian 1000 books + assorted plays).

#wondrouswednesday @Eggs

1️⃣ Strawberries!! 🍓
2️⃣ Currently reading Don Quixote, 940 pages (super small font 😳)
3️⃣ Saga! Also, Paper girls, Misfit City, and (not a series) the Prince and the Dressmaker
4️⃣ don't really know 🤔

So excited to have finished this beast of a book this morning. I must say I enjoyed it more than I anticipated. It‘s a fun but really long read.

Now that I‘ve learned the literary origins of the modern day sitcom with its flat, ridiculous characters that never grow or change, I‘ve got all that I could possibly get from this silly tome. Bailed a fifth of the way in.