| jerry wrote: |
i got about halfway through Cervantes' Don Quixote this Spring before setting down on my nightstand indefinitely. i have an unfortunate habit of putting books down when i determine that i've gotten the gist of the story.
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You are brave and persistent! The only way people read that book in Latin America (and I suspect Spain too) is because they force them! It was obligatory reading on 7th,8th and 9th grade. A chapter a day, 4 days a week! Everybody dreaded El Quijote, more than Algebra, mostly because it was written in old Spanish and it was very dull. We were supposed to "analyze" and interpret the story and there was not much we could come up with!. I don't think anybody reads it for fun. It is supposed to be one of the greatest works in Spanish Literature...not! Maybe the translation is better...
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