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Mar 05, 2013 05:04AM
Join me and Alexandra and Janet! I just started on audio and am liking it already. I like a guy who would sell off his land to buy books!
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Here we go. Is there anything I need to know about buddy reading or is it basically just reading the same book at the same time while having others to hang in there with you?
Alexandra, how far in are you? I'll try to catch up. I have a drive this afternoon that will help. My only goal is to finish for the March Challenge, so by end of month. I can go fast or slow depending on what we need, and I'm sure it is free on kindle, so I can go back and forth if I need to.
I'm also reading this this week I'll try to stop by but I'm fast with these chunksters
Travis of NNY wrote: "I'm also reading this this week I'll try to stop by but I'm fast with these chunksters"Don't try to stop, necessarily, just talk with us about it! Love all this DQ energy!
Thanks, Judy, this is easier than I thought. I´m glad that you´re joining us!Beth, I am currently around page 500 (I´m reading the free kindle-version) but I´ll just wait until you´ve caught up. It´s a quick read I think. I also want to read it for the March challenge so there is plenty of time to finish it...
I pucked up the audio book for $5 last month and then this challenge popped up. I always wanted to read it since as a boy on sunday morning I use to watch the cartoon the adventures of don coyote
From Wikipedia about don coyote: "these crusaders of chivalry rode the countryside fighting for truth, justice, and beauty." I have never seen the cartoons, Travis, but I am sure I would have loved them. I have always wanted to read Don Quixote, and have it on my TBR list, but as Janet said in another string, "I am so overbooked" and I am already doing another buddy read.
here is the theme song of Don Coyote, looks like it only ran two seasons I would of been 8 and 9 years oldhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKj8qI...
Thank you for sharing the link, Travis. Too cute! I was busy playing soccer in an over 30s league on Sundays, at that time (1990), and had a house full of teenagers at home then. I do not think we had cable and I doubt it ran on our local TV stations. Fun times to remember then though!
I had CBS, ABC and PBS and on a clear sunny day a canadien channel I think CKWS
Okay, I can start DQ soon, probably tomorrow. No need to wait for me. I'll check in when I have some progress to report :)
Judy, I am there too! Sadly, today won't be a big reading day
I am around page 800 and so far loving this book. It is so humorous I wish I had time to write down exactly where DQ tells Sancho I don't understand you. Well my lord if thou dost not understand me no wonder thou thinkest i make no sense. But rest assured that thy dost understand thine self and assure you that all of which thy speakest dost in fact mske perfect sense. Or something like that. I have read parts of the. Man of la mancha growing up but never the whole thing the story of dq has been one i have always enjoyed and have not been disappointed reading it in length
I don't know if it is just the translation, but it feels so marvelously accessible even though it was written so long ago. I agree that it is really funny. Such a pleasurable read!
I feared older books for a long time but lately I have found many of the translations to be quite readable and with so many classics available free on audioboo. And kindle I have been reading many classics lately.
I agree, it really is a pleasure to read. I was so afraid to tackle these 900 something pages but I went through the first 500 so quickly... And I agree to Beth, one hardly notices that the book was written so long ago.
I admit I burn through audiobooks. If this were in print my progress would be much slower. In some ways it's a book of short stories, but since it always returns to the quest of don quixote not quite a book of short stories. In some ways it reminds me of Les Mis how Hugo goes off on rants and many side stories then returns to the main story of Jean Val Jean. I'd say it is written in a fashion combining the style of Les Mis with a book of short stories even though it was written long before Les Mis that would be my best attempt to explain its style.
I was thinking that the multiple little stories were kind of 1001 Nights like!
I´m finished. Wow, I really liked Don Quixote. Now I am wondering what took me so long to tackle this book. I was surprised though, that the world famous chapter about DQ fighting windmills was not that big event in the book...
Dons most famous acts all seemed to take place in the first part
I am about a third of the way in at this point, in the canyon with the gold.
Have you met Sancho Panza yet? There is a funny part ahead of you...
Oh yes, he is along for the ride for quite awhile now.
I love the back and forth between them!
I agree as well. They are a such a funny couple! Would never have thought that this book was so much fun!
