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    <body><![CDATA[Nyambung postingnya Nanto soal buku bekas, nah ini <em>strike gold</em> gw, terjemahan <em>Don Quixote</em> oleh Abdul Moeis (1933), cetakan ketiga (1955). [Mia dan Roos sudah liat buku ini di rumah]<br/><br/>Ini terjemahan luar biasa, kocak bukan main seperti versi aslinya. Karena sendirinya seorang sastrawan, Abd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36659692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In short: it's a frickin' classic of world literature. Read it.<br/><br/>In slightly longer, but still short: an amusing and infamous first fifty pages with lots of hit-or-miss thereafter. The second half gets dreadfully stale, but has an interesting ending from a literary analysis standpoint.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2349244">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My final review of Book I is actually over here - <br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51931271" title="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51931271">http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/519...</a><br/><br/>I am leaving this &quot;review&quot; stand, largely because the comments attached provide a record of my Via Dolorosa through Book I over the past month. The entire &quot;Quik Quixote&quot;,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49081259">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whew. I did it. I'm ready to run the New York Marathon, climb Mount Everest, swim the Mekong River, and hunt the nefarious arctic narwhale, now that I've read Don Quixote in its entirety. And I am truly a better person for it.<br/><br/>Until now, I've only read Don Quixote in small doses, reading ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14449611">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[DON QUIJOTE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br/>Did crystal meth exist back in the 1500's? because I think that's what Don Quixote was on. <br/>I began reading the Spanish version of &quot;Don Quijote De La Mancha&quot;. <br/>What inspired me was a vintage mint condition copy I came across and purc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69557870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a kid did you ever dream about being a knight like the ones in the books you read?  Well in Don Quixote, a delusional 50 year old man starts trying to fulfill this dream.  Journeying through Spain with his squire Sancho Panza, Don Quixote finds many &quot;adventures&quot; that to most people woul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/249363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Cervantes' massive 400-year-old novel may seem to be a challenge analogous to the titular errant knight's ill-advised confrontation with the windmill, however, as with Quixote's famed inanimate opponent, appearances are deceiving. Despite its age, Quixote holds up remarkably well: the charac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12096167">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[อัศจรรย์ดีที่คิดว่าหนังสือเล่มนี้เขียนขึ้นตั้งแต่สมัยพระนเรศวร<br/><br/>ชอบน้ำเสียงคนเขียนบรรยายเรื่องได้ต...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56251755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I've ever read in my life, as it should be.  Smollet's translation, though I obviously have not read the Spanish, truly does seem to capture the rambunctious feel and intent of Cervantes.  My own writing has improved immensely just from reading this book, as well my voc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24907635">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really regret leaving my edition of this book on the curb when I moved out of that Brooklyn apartment. I was like, &quot;Oh, super translation and lovely red cover, but it's really heavy and it's not like I'm gonna need to reread *Don Quixote* any time soon..... I need to quit being such a materia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7460298">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     I did it.  It took me about a month, but I have read the entre book of Don Quixote.  I can't find many people who have...<br/>     At first, I really did not like this book.  Being written a long time ago, it is not a quick read.  Many characers are introduced and all want to give long speeche...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42123113">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a tough one.  So violent!  But, now I'm glad I got it over with.  I can't say I loved it or even that I liked it but I do have some amazing quotes, and to say that he isn't a literary genuius would be wrong indeed.  I acutally met someone who did not know who Don Quixote was.  This was quit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51968606">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considered the first Western novel, Cervantes 940 pages cover just about every novel-writing technique used ever since. Great story-telling and amusing swipes at other plays, poetry, pastoral and chivalric writing. Plus special darts at a writer who wrote a fake Don Quixote, part 2 between Cervantes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44106879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining, funny, bawdy, inventive, comic, ironic...this is one fantastic piece of literature.  It stoops occasionally towards slapstick and toilet humor, but other than that it is sheer genius.  Cervantes was inventing the modern novel as he went along.  All the forms the modern reader is used t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17732314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although Don Quixote and Sancho are both amusing characters I got desperately bored of them within the first 100 pages of this book. It was only near the end that I started to really enjoy it again, with the addition on stories that didn't circulate around Don Quixote. All in all a pleasant read, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48084305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My goal was to read the book at an age younger than was Cervantes when he wrote it (70). Barely made it. If you are interested in the wind mills, it happens in the first few pages; and Broadway is right--you can reduce the point of the book to that one scene. However, now that you are old and have r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4691029">more...</a>]]></body>
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