Alison's review
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Woo-hoo, Brooke owes me a beer (which I'll feed to Karl)!
I don't know if it was because I was tired (I only read it in bed before going to sleep at night), but after 6 months I'd gotten through only the first 100-odd pages. But then it (or I) started flying. The first thing that got me was the cat joke (im in yr cavalcade saturizing yr litrary deloojuns), then the rapidly escalating violence, and by the time Sancho got tossed in a blanket, I was laughing out loud every few pages.
Nothing amuses me more than cat jokes and blanket jokes, but a close second was the self-consciousness in Part 2. It's probably because I rarely read earlier than the 19th century (and me, married to a medievalist! Shame), and seldom read works translated from other languages, but I saw happening a lot of things I'd associated only with 20thC experimental and postmodern fiction: Don Quixote and Sancho discovering that they're characters not only in DQ Part I, but also in a spurious sequel that they...more
I don't know if it was because I was tired (I only read it in bed before going to sleep at night), but after 6 months I'd gotten through only the first 100-odd pages. But then it (or I) started flying. The first thing that got me was the cat joke (im in yr cavalcade saturizing yr litrary deloojuns), then the rapidly escalating violence, and by the time Sancho got tossed in a blanket, I was laughing out loud every few pages.
Nothing amuses me more than cat jokes and blanket jokes, but a close second was the self-consciousness in Part 2. It's probably because I rarely read earlier than the 19th century (and me, married to a medievalist! Shame), and seldom read works translated from other languages, but I saw happening a lot of things I'd associated only with 20thC experimental and postmodern fiction: Don Quixote and Sancho discovering that they're characters not only in DQ Part I, but also in a spurious sequel that they...more
If you finish this book I'll buy you a beer. -Brooke
I just pasted my review of this from an old blog, with no major spoilers. But you can always wait until you finish it, as you seem to be finishing 2 books a day these days.
Yup! !Yup! Yup! (this one made me terribly happy when I got around to reading it)
