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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.
It was weird and too long - sometimes it was torture to read. Maybe I will read once again later.
Oct 26, 2007
Stephanie
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Jul 26, 2010
Laura
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