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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on May 1, 2018 3:21:48 GMT
finally thinking about checking it out...
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Post by mikef6 on May 1, 2018 4:41:05 GMT
It’s very long. It is in two parts, making it at least twice as long as two or three modern novels. Most people barely make it past the tilting at windmills and Sancho Panza getting tossed on the blanket.
BUT!!! If you stick with it to the end you will have no doubt that you have experienced genius. But for the modern reader it takes patience (which I rarely have but surprised myself when I read Quixote) and endurance, but is worth it.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 1, 2018 5:10:48 GMT
as mikef6 said .. it's long .. very long ...and not as much fun as the Broadway Version (not the filmed one) of Man of La Mancha ! Read it ages and ages ago and have not been tempted to read it again, but realize that I probably should. |
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Post by President Ackbar™ on May 1, 2018 5:35:13 GMT
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Post by darknessfish on May 1, 2018 8:44:53 GMT
As has already been noted, it's very long, and I found it very repetitive. To be honest, in my view the first book on its own would've been worth the effort, the second book doesn't really add an awful lot, other than a lot of words.
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 9:34:48 GMT
Yes and i did not care for it.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 1, 2018 10:37:12 GMT
The first half only.
Quite enjoyed it. Not sure why I didn't read part 2, as it's supposed to be even better.
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on May 1, 2018 21:05:56 GMT
ok, thanks folks!
starting it tonight!
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 2, 2018 14:23:07 GMT
ok, thanks folks! starting it tonight! Load of shite, isn't it?!  |
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on May 2, 2018 14:50:26 GMT
ok, thanks folks! starting it tonight! Load of shite, isn't it?! 3 chapters in, solid. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 2, 2018 23:33:43 GMT
nutsberryfarm 🏜3 chapters in...
If you don't post your book report in the next couple of days, we will completely understand ! 
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Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on May 4, 2018 13:25:29 GMT
nutsberryfarm 🏜 3 chapters in...
If you don't post your book report in the next couple of days, we will completely understand ! 7 days away, it's solid stuff. |
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Post by Roberto on May 4, 2018 17:00:03 GMT
I don't know what that is. Does it have anything to do with Don Peyote? |
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Post by Bargle on May 5, 2018 10:58:08 GMT
I read it back in my teens. Enjoyed it as I recall.
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Post by yougotastewgoinbaby on May 6, 2018 4:18:03 GMT
I read it years ago, and loved every single page of it. I should probably read it again...regardless, it's reputation speaks for itself.
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Post by amyghost on May 12, 2018 16:32:00 GMT
Read it first when I was in my twenties, and recollect how eye-opening it was to be laughing aloud at jokes written several hundred years ago. I've read several translations since and it remains a favorite book, like War and Peace, Vanity Fair, and all of Jane Austen, one of those novels to be periodically re-read and savored over the decades.
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Post by divtal on May 12, 2018 23:13:16 GMT
Kinda, sorta ... and, a long time ago. In a French "lit" class, during my first year of college, we read Le Cid, which is Pierre Corneille's translation, from Cervantes. I didn't, exactly, "zip" right through it.  I like the suggestion, though. |
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Post by lunda2222 on Jun 6, 2018 19:43:32 GMT
Read it when I was 12 years old. Don't remember that much about it. And looking back, I'm pretty sure it was a condensed children version too.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jun 6, 2018 19:57:20 GMT
Mambrino's helmet.
I read it.
Remember finding it amusing but not much details stick in the memory. Not sure if I read the whole work or just the first book.
Moby Dick-now that's a tough book to get through.
I stuck with it.
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