Don Quixote in World Library Top 100 Books of All Time

Jul 02, 2008 Deanne rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001bookstoreadbeforeyoudie, 1001-books-2008, classicliterature, comedy

Read this while on holiday with my brother and his family, bought back memories to him of his son at the age of 4, he's now 20. James thought the book was about a donkey called Oatie. Spent all the week telling them I was reading Donkey Oatie.
As for Don Quixote was reading it on the Norfolk broads so I got to do some tilting at windmills. Did feel the book was a bit too long. ...more

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Dec 12, 2011 Jon rated it it was amazing

Mad quest of reviving a defunct ideal chivalry ideology but brought back to earth by the White Moon Knight.

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Mar 12, 2024 J_BlueFlower rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001, 1001-read, norwegian-100, catching-up-read, ereolen

The adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Most of them imagined with very little connection of reality. Again and again the perceived world is bend to fit the imagination or ideal. “Enchanted” is the universal explanation. A horde of wizards is responsible for all
difference in what is experienced and the ideal. Don Quixote loves the “the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso”. A women very vaguely based on a village girl – in his imagination a princess. Sancho Panza plays into this fantasy by poin ...more

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Jan 02, 2019 Valerie rated it it was amazing

I started reading Don Quixote about seven years ago, but got sidetracked and quit. It took all this time to get my hands on the audio recording of the Grossman translation, but the wait was worth it. In the first place, the Grossman translation is worth the wait, but also in the meantime I read Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table in order to overcome pregnancy insomnia. (We named the baby Arthur, and I finished Don Quixote on Arthur's 4th birthday. My how time flies ...more

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Jun 12, 2012 Laura rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books-to-read, 100-books-of-all-time, fiction

I am over the moon to have finally finished this book. For a book that is so influential and important it is unbelievably boring. Long and boring. The main story of Don Quixote's adventures didn't interest me however there were a few of stories within the story that were good, although these were a minority. One good thing that I can take from reading this is that all my other books that I plan to read will shine in comparison! ...more

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Aug 28, 2010 Lost Owl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: top-100, classics

It's so familiar that reading it is like visiting the Lincoln Memorial; there is a feeling that prevents the wonder than should probably happen. I read book one; it did not disappoint but did not amaze. The second book is amazing. I have new friends. ...more

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