Read this in little bits and pieces at work, since it was the only book worth reading on the office bookshelf. Now I’m done with it, and, conveniently, I’m quitting tomorrow. Stayed just long enough.

I was amused. Funny book. The version I read had pictures (some of them were even in color!). I like how it can still be funny even centuries after it was written. Of course, every time I picked up the book, I either started having visions of Wishbone running after Don Quixote battling the windmills, or my mind’s resident Broadway cast started up with “To Dream the Impossible Dream”. Fun times.

Anyways, good book, easy read, recommended.

I can only take so much of Don Quixote doing crazy and/or stupid things that almost always result in him and Pancho Sanchez getting beat yet again. I’m enjoying it, don’t get me wrong, and somehow it never stops being hysterical (my coworkers must think I’m mad for all the outbursts during lunch breaks). But I haven’t picked it up in almost two months and I keep getting distracted by other things.

I’ll finish it one day!

Here I stand mourning the death of Don Quixote of la Mancha. His madness in committing himself to his profession gave me strength to commit myself to mine. Now I bid farewell to Alonso Quixano the sane. Thank you for the joy and sweetness your delightful madness has brought me. May my own peculiar madness be as sweet to me, and sanity find me praising God!

Here I stand mourning the death of Don Quixote of la Mancha. His madness in committing himself to his profession gave me strength to commit myself to mine. Now I bid farewell to Alonso Quixano the sane. Thank you for the joy and sweetness your delightful madness has brought me. May my own peculiar madness be as sweet to me, and sanity find me praising God!

This is a fairly long book and can get extremely tedious at times when Don Quixote goes into one of his spiels. But the crazy stuff they get into keeps it interesting. In the end, you’re wondering who the crazy one is. I think the ending is sad, mainly because it didn’t have to happen that way. But some people just like crushing dreams. Completed July 26, 2005.

Currently I’m nearing the middle of book two but I am determined to finish this, no matter how slow it gets in places.