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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
If Sancho Panza isn't your favorite character, we read very different books. Because despite having his name on the cover, even Don Quixote pretty much admits by the end that the squat, mildly greedy peasant farmer is a warm, funny, and insightful human being -- and a fantastic governor. It boggles my mind Cervantes took as long as he did to bring him into the story.
It also boggles my mind that "Part 1" is the more famous part, because "Part 2" is miles better. It's like Cervantes realized that Don Quixote and Sancho are so much more noble, if misguided, than all the assholes who live in the real world. After a while, watching the poor sadsacks get the crap beaten out of them in Part 1 gets to be a real drag -- so much that you welcome when Cervantes decides to tell stories about characters that have NOTHING to do with Don Quixote.
By the end, I really did care for the two dopes and was sad to watch their second sally come to an end. But oh-my-goodness is this too long! So many scenes go on and on and on, and then a scene a lot like it follows...and goes on and on and on (if you liked the one scene how Don Quixote mistook the inn for a castle and didn't pay his tab, just hold on! You're in luck!). The idea of Don Quixote is fun, the text of Don Quixote can be a real chore.
But hey, I got to read about Sancho Panza being an amazing governor, and getting the hell out of politics the first chance he got, and returning to the more safe world of Quixote's batshit insanity. So all in all, not a bad book.
It also boggles my mind that "Part 1" is the more famous part, because "Part 2" is miles better. It's like Cervantes realized that Don Quixote and Sancho are so much more noble, if misguided, than all the assholes who live in the real world. After a while, watching the poor sadsacks get the crap beaten out of them in Part 1 gets to be a real drag -- so much that you welcome when Cervantes decides to tell stories about characters that have NOTHING to do with Don Quixote.
By the end, I really did care for the two dopes and was sad to watch their second sally come to an end. But oh-my-goodness is this too long! So many scenes go on and on and on, and then a scene a lot like it follows...and goes on and on and on (if you liked the one scene how Don Quixote mistook the inn for a castle and didn't pay his tab, just hold on! You're in luck!). The idea of Don Quixote is fun, the text of Don Quixote can be a real chore.
But hey, I got to read about Sancho Panza being an amazing governor, and getting the hell out of politics the first chance he got, and returning to the more safe world of Quixote's batshit insanity. So all in all, not a bad book.