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I started off really enjoying Don Quixote, and was quite surprised by the humor and especially the potty humor - I totally was not expecting that for something written in the very early 1600s. But towards the last 200 pages or so, I was ready for the adventures to be done, not because I wasn't still enjoying them but there seemed to be a lot of the same.
I gave it 4 stars, and would definitely go back and reread at least parts of it. Also, I love Sancho Panza, he's probably one of my favorite cha ...more
I gave it 4 stars, and would definitely go back and reread at least parts of it. Also, I love Sancho Panza, he's probably one of my favorite cha ...more
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
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
Oct 22, 2009
Nancy
rated it
really liked it
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latin-american-and-spanish
Jun 25, 2013
Jaclyn~she lives! catching up on reviews~
marked it as to-read
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Oct 06, 2014
Navi
marked it as literary-fiction-tbr
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kindle,
500-pages-plus
May 10, 2015
Peg Gjertsen
marked it as to-read
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did-not-finish,
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