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Week 4: Part I, Chapters 40–52
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Dec 13, 2013 10:00AM
This thread is for discussing the last thirteen chapters of Part I of Don Quixote, which will take place (roughly) between February 03 and February 09, 2014.
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I started this week's section today and I'm still enjoying it. So far, so good.
Glad to see I'm not the only one getting a late start on this week's reading
I probably won't get chance to read this weeks until next week, but next week I have time off work so cna just spend an entire day on this! I find I enjoy it more in large sittings anyway.
Yeah I don't mind falling a bit behind, either. No biggie.
Well this concludes Part I of the book, and even though it ended with not a whole extraordinary amount of things happening, I have to say that I've really enjoyed it. The writing just pulled me right along, and proves a point I've always tried to make about writing quality which is that good writing doesn't always need to be ABOUT something interesting, nor does it need to be about anything in particular, but invariably it will have the result of piquing your interest in something that you'd otherwise find no interest in. Moby-Dick did it for me with whales, and now Don Quixote is doing it for me with knight errantry.Looking forward to Part 2!
So I finished this part last night. On the whole I am enjoying this but I am tending to find the extra stories to be more interesting than Don Quixote's tale (e.g the tale of Cardenio and Don Fernando).I did find the inn scenes to be a bit... easy I guess. This one location where pretty much everyone Quixote encountered in the earlier stories suddenly turn up again (and all at the same time) was a tad too convenient (I could understand some turning up there, but the barber and all the rest - I just found it to be bordering on absurd).
Yeah, I like the stories-within-the-story the best, too. The scene at the end where all the characters come together felt to me like a "season finale" type of thing. All in all I think this is a pretty weird book but I am still liking it.
You're right actually - it does have a season finale feel... It will be interesting to see if part two ends with a similar feeling.
