Read "Don Quixote"

I want to read this along with Nabokov’s lectures on the book. They’ve both been sitting on my shelf, so I’m ashamed. Anyway, I want to experience a spectacular book right now and feel ready to get blown away. Here goes!

When I keep looking up Don Quixote in the library I keep getting reffered to other books that are a study of what Don Quixote means. So I got onto the internet and odered a cheap classics copy! Yay! So now I’m waiting for it to arrive.

Um. Thirty pages in.

...Is the first book on my ‘100 greatest books’ list – I just need to find a library that has a copy!

For now:

One chapter a day.
More when I have a more accurate estimation of my free time.

It’s been sitting on my bookshelf for years.
I only picked it up yesterday.

I started Don Quixote… twice.

I tried, I really did. I love the part where they went to the bar and there were girls and he thought they were “damsels” but really they were whores. And I cried when his family burned his books. I felt for him… but I can’t do this now. There are too many other books i want to read that catch me more. Sorry Don… some other day!

who says americans aint cultured!
google’d this book, concept sounds real interesting, especially considering the era of its conception!
the wind mills!
first step, to buy it!

I’m an engineering student, so I read a lot, but nothing that you could discuss casually and create some interesting conversation, unless you’re hanging out with really really dull people. Why Don Quixote? Well, it’s a classic for one, but no one of the glam ones such as War and Peace, or Moby Dick, while I’m sure they are great novels, I’d like to take the road a little less travelled for this one. I first learned about this book when it was referenced in the movie The Ninth Gate. After that I learned that it was a classic, and supposedly humorous. I’d actually like to eventually read a number of the so called classics, so I think I’ll make Don Quixote the first.

Yey, one of my top 20 reads !
One Hundred Years of Solitude, being No.1.