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Despite this taking me a couple of months to read (I should have bought a copy!), I adored this. It brought me back to my Monty Python days. Delightful foolishness from start to finish, with a serious dose of feeling.
No question, there was a point when I wished it was shorter (somewhere around the second library due date), but I'm glad I persevered because by the end, it's hard to imagine which episodes could have been spared.
What's most amazing of all is the fact of this novel's being written ...more
No question, there was a point when I wished it was shorter (somewhere around the second library due date), but I'm glad I persevered because by the end, it's hard to imagine which episodes could have been spared.
What's most amazing of all is the fact of this novel's being written ...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
Unfortuantely, I was way too familiar with the story of Don Quioxte before reading this book to get much out of it. Its still a 3 star book as I realize I wouldn't have received so much pleasure from the Don Quioxte story without the book, but the read was a slog to get through and became very repetitive and dull by even 25% of the way through.
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Jun 25, 2013
Jaclyn~she lives! catching up on reviews~
marked it as to-read
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Aug 03, 2013
Pip
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really liked it
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Jan 07, 2015
Ashley Jacobson
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really liked it
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May 10, 2015
Peg Gjertsen
marked it as to-read
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Sep 17, 2015
Maru Kun
marked it as to-read
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Nov 03, 2015
Karen O
marked it as to-read
