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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
i have another great edition that has illustrations by salvador dali...it's amazing!
Listened to unabridged audiobook as I hiked through Spain on the Camino de Santiago. It was a good companion as I hiked past windmills and donkeys. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have had the patience for it sitting at home with a book. Very funny in parts despite 400 years on the shelf. There are large diversions in the novel where Sancho and Don are sidelined.
slow-paced
The speeches do ramble on at times, but damn, this is the funniest 400-year-old novel I've ever read (and funnier than many modern ones, too!). While Cervantes wrote it as a parody of "knight-errant" novels of his time, I find it amazingly timeless in depicting the way humanity pursues simple-minded, romantic notions of right and wrong, ignoring the complexity of the human condition. There's wisdom in the insanity, cruelty in the sanity, and steadfast refusal to update ones' mindset as new information presents itself.
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
ITS FINALLY OVER THANK GOD. I rly wish I'd read an edition that only included the first book bc the whole second book was just the author sassing some guy who wrote fanfic of his work
It happens that Don Quixote is actually two books, the first published in 1605 and the second in 1615. I read the first book but opted out for the second. Because it was written in the 17th century, the language is, shall we say, verbose for this 21st century reader. Given that, Don Quixote is a funny and endearing story filled with mishaps for our Knight-errant and his sidekick Sancho. Wikipedia tells us that errant indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric virtues, either in knightly duels or in some other pursuit of courtly love. That he is.
I read this book so long ago. I am now revisiting it as an audio book in Italian (my second language). The irony! The wit! The endless shaggy dog story until VOILA' (ok I know that is French) the pieces start coming together. The errant knight is actually fulfilling his mission and doing good, bringing those back together in love who had separated in anger, helping those find their meaning in life, allowing them to see they had been able to survive their travails.... MEANWHILE, all this happens as the question of what is true and real, or what is fiction or creation of reality stymies the bystanders and secondary characters, who actually seem to be like the chorus in Greek tragedies. It is a marvel, so modern that it is freaky. The world has become this actor's stage and all around him become part of the theater of life, and they cannot resist, some even resign themselves to having lived a bit differently. Don Q careens into lives randomly chaotically to mysteriously pick through chaos and discover complexity and meaning. What a delight, like having a box set of cliff hanger episodes.... 35 hrs. of stories within stories and plot twists and villans and "frienemies" twisted male 'thinking', women trying to get on with their lives as they reason with the men, to no avail many of the times... One of the rare examples of the Rinascimento in Spain.
Questo libro è stato per me troppo lungo, la prima parte era anche sufficientemente scorrevole, ma la seconda è stata troppo lenta.
Le avventure di Don Chisciotte sarebbero comunque state la base di un'ottima sceneggiatura per un film di Tim Burton, magari lo fa quando invecchia Jhonny Depp. Per il resto sono solo contenta di averlo letto per non fare come tutti quelli che lo nominano senza sapere di che parla, capita spesso con questi classici troppo conosciuti per essere letti.
Le avventure di Don Chisciotte sarebbero comunque state la base di un'ottima sceneggiatura per un film di Tim Burton, magari lo fa quando invecchia Jhonny Depp. Per il resto sono solo contenta di averlo letto per non fare come tutti quelli che lo nominano senza sapere di che parla, capita spesso con questi classici troppo conosciuti per essere letti.
adventurous
funny
slow-paced
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes