Friday, July 22, 2011

Book 49: Don Quixote

It's strange that a book that was written over 400 years ago can still bring enjoyment to a modern audience whose world is so my different today than the world that is described in the book. I have never read another book about a knight that could surpass this one in humor and ridiculousness and I'm sure that no matter who reads it they will find at least one aspect in it that they enjoy.

Don Quixote was long. Very very very long. I loved the first part of the book. It was entertaining and really fun to read, so fun infact I wrote the beginning to my blog about it before I even finished the book. But then the second part came. The first 200 pages of it really didn't fit with the tone of the beginning of the book which I found rather odd but the pace of the story picked up after that and remained thus until the last chapter which was very depressing.

I give Don Quixote 8 lashes out of 10. Even though it dragged in the middle I really enjoyed reading the book.

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