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Loving this specific edition (Oxford World's Classics ISBN 0192834835) -- good introduction and good notes.
Around page 60, I started to think maybe I should chalk this up to Nancy's Rule of 50: I'd read 50 pages, and...eh. I mean, it's a good story, and it has wonderful writing (or translating... or both), but I foresee this just being one anecdote after another, and with SO many books to read on my shelves and to-read list, do I really want to spend 940+ pages of "This lunatic is a lunatic"? Bu ...more
Around page 60, I started to think maybe I should chalk this up to Nancy's Rule of 50: I'd read 50 pages, and...eh. I mean, it's a good story, and it has wonderful writing (or translating... or both), but I foresee this just being one anecdote after another, and with SO many books to read on my shelves and to-read list, do I really want to spend 940+ pages of "This lunatic is a lunatic"? Bu ...more
a bit wordy, a bit flowery, but overall, fun! quirky! amusing! i felt quite sophisticated and debonair reading it, as if i was of the knighthood myself. finishing this book is an Accomplishment, if i do say so myself.
Reading this book one should not refrain from skipping some parts; it makes the good parts, i.e., the parts in which Quixote's imagination takes great heights, all the more enjoyable.
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Feb 19, 2011
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