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michaelclorah 's review for:
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
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.