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Don Quixote
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April 1, 2021
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September 1, 2021
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What Members Thought

~Calyre~
Il vaut mieux gagner de quoi vivre en plaisant au plus grand nombre que gagner la gloire en ne plaisant qu'à quelques-uns.

Je vis en mourant, je brûle dans la glace, je tremble dans le feu, j'espère sans espoir, je reste que je pars.

Une large et profonde rivière divisait en deux un vaste domaine. Sur cette rivière, on avait jeté un pont; au bout du pont, il y avait une potence et une salle où siégeaient en permanence quatre juges chargés d'appliquer la loi édictée par le propriétaire de la rivièr
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Jeremy C. Brown
Jul 27, 2012 rated it really liked it

“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!

There were parts in the first book that were tedious a
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Robert
Sep 04, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, fiction
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Jan 24, 2012 rated it liked it
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May 20, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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Jc Roushar
Jun 11, 2012 rated it liked it
Olga
Jun 27, 2012 marked it as to-read
Alicia Withers
Jul 13, 2012 is currently reading it
Natalia Branecka
Sep 13, 2012 rated it really liked it
Cactusland
Oct 01, 2012 rated it it was amazing
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Ryan Shuman
Oct 03, 2012 marked it as to-read
Ermira
Mar 04, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Jess :)
Mar 13, 2013 marked it as back-burner
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Nicole
Mar 30, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, purchased
Sam Winslett
May 18, 2013 marked it as to-read
Batgrl (Book Data Kept Elsewhere)
Aug 07, 2013 marked it as owned-and-waiting-to-be-read  ·  review of another edition
Kim
Aug 29, 2013 rated it did not like it
Shelves: didn-t-finish
Sammy
Feb 17, 2014 marked it as to-read
Jacob
Mar 08, 2014 marked it as to-read
Veronica
Jul 03, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition