Rob Martin’s Reviews > Don Quixote > Status Update

The story telling in this book is remarkable. The story lines that all just intertwined were such a pleasure to read. I’m not sure what’s making me fly through this book, the translation or the plot, but it’s great. It’s so funny how fine the line of madness is. Don Quixote is a very smart man who rationalized himself into irrationality.

The princess bride?? Inconceivable. This has to be the book that inspired that

Poop jokes are literally always funny

I love this book. Short digestible chapters with funny adventures and life lessons. Crazy how old it is

End of part 1: this book keeps making me laugh. It reminds me so much of Monty python, I have sir bedevere’s voice going when I read dialogue from Quixote. The knight not being allowed to complain of pain is literally the black knight embodied. ‘Tis but a flesh wound.

Chapter 7: now I know who sublime was talking about in Santeria

Chapter 6: I did not enjoy that lesson on 16th century Spanish literature. 24 notes in a 5 page chapter, most of them citing sources I really didn’t care about

Chapter 4: I wonder how all the people in the book know Quixote is bonkers. Was his way of speaking that dated for this time? I have a perfect image of this don. Cervantes does a great job at characterizing him

Chapter 2: why is this book so funny. Cervantes does a great job at making this seem cartoonish. Reminds me of Monty python. I wonder if this was the inspiration

Prologue: this was a difficult read. Sonnets and weird fill in the blank type poems talking about things in the book I have no reference to

1: so easy to read compared to the prologue. Turns out sir chicken thigh is a middle age man obsessed with the medieval equivalent of twilight? Hysterical