I really liked Joseph and His Magnificent Coat of Many Colors - another classic given the 'Marcia Williams Treatment'. I loved its humor and accessibility so I was excited to try this one out. This wasn't quite as successful in my mind. It was surprisingly less funny (perhaps because the irreverence...
'Don Quixote' is a massive and uproariously funny book. People are not kidding. Edith Grossman does an excellent job of making an uncluttered and modern translation that reflects, as she puts it, the "crackling up-to-date Spanish" Cervantes wrote. As someone who tried reading Tobias Smollett's 18th ...
I don't really get this book at all, I don't think. I guess it was like one of the first things that resembled a novel that ever came out, when it came out. Maybe that's why it's so famous. But still, it must have something enduring to say for people to be still reading it today, mustn't it? The...
Well, this thing is good.I guess the goal of reviewing something like Don Quixote is to make you less frightened of it. It's intimidating, right? It's 940 pages long and it's from 500 years ago. But Grossman's translation is modern and easy to read, and the work itself is so much fun that it ends...
Wow! After more than a month reading it, I have finally finished Don Quixote. I found it to be very amusing. There were some parts where it was slow, but for the most part, I enjoyed reading about Don Quixote's adventures. I found the book to be very humorous, and it's definitely the foundation ...
Re-read details:Drama on 3- By Thomas D'Urfey.Don Taylor's radio adaptation of a play based on Cervantes's classic picaresque novel, commissioned to mark the 300th anniversary of Purcell's death in 1995. The play, with music by Purcell, Eccles and others, was first performed in 1694.Don Quixote .......
Whatever else "Don Quixote" is, I never found it boring. Parts of it were very funny, others had wonderful similarities with Shakespeare, some bits were more serious: it's like a mini library in a single volume. Wonderful. Overall, it has quite a shakespearean feel - more in the plotting and tales w...
I love this book. Cervantes had me rolling in stitches. I have often wondered if I am a modern day version of Don Quixote myself. Perhaps my brain has dried up from staying up to late reading away the night.
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