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read for PopSugar Reading Challenge 2018: a book that is also a stage play or musical
I feel like such a champion for conquering this book. Not since The Count of Monte Cristo have I felt so good getting through an audiobook!
I really enjoyed my time with this book. I can understand how it's the first "modern novel" because despite being 400+ years old, it's a real joy to get through (this could be due to this translation being done in the 1800's). I laughed out loud quite a bit, and reveled a bit ...more
I feel like such a champion for conquering this book. Not since The Count of Monte Cristo have I felt so good getting through an audiobook!
I really enjoyed my time with this book. I can understand how it's the first "modern novel" because despite being 400+ years old, it's a real joy to get through (this could be due to this translation being done in the 1800's). I laughed out loud quite a bit, and reveled a bit ...more
“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
Oh this is a funny book! A funny, and very long and tedious at times books. Because it’s so long there really is a lot of “something good in it.” :-)
The best parts were the characters that described perfectly the crazy people in my own life and the arguably crazier people around them supporting them in their ridiculous decisions!
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