I finally finished it!!!

[imoan]

I finally finished Don Quixote for my challenge. I've read some "tough" books so far for this challenge... But NONE of them gave me as hard a time as this one! It's such a weight off my shoulders to be able to FINALLY move on with my challenge! I started Northanger Abbey today... Onward and upward!

[PinkSquirrel]

Woo hoo! That's awesome. I love that you just stuck with it even though you really had to work to get through it.

[EllieArroway]

Congrats! Northanger isn't my favorite Austen but it's sooooooo much easier than Don Quixote.

[curmudgeon]

Congrats! I tried twice, and well, finishing is quite an achievement.

[GilliC]

That's awesome! I made it about two- or three-hundred pages in and got so fed up with it. I felt like it was the same thing over and over and over. Then I lost my copy and never bothered to replace it.

At the risk of sounding like an NBC cliche, does it ever get better? Or is the entire thing just a series of "Don Quixote does something stupid and gets himself in trouble." Over. And Over?

I feel like I would have enjoyed it more if I understood the subtle social and political message that was written into it, but on the surface level it was too |-)

[charlatti]

Congratulations! Well done, you! (And yay for Northanger Abbey. I read it in college, so it's been quite a while, but I remember enjoying it.)

[panicked]

Don Quixote is on my list too! Man of La Mancha is my favorite musical (based on DQ), so I'm actually looking forward to reading it. Good for you for finishing it! What challenge are you doing? I'm reading the College Bound Top 100 list.

[writingwithheld]

Congratulations! I was terrified that we would read that in my Spanish literature class, but luckily we did not.

Jun 4, 2012 8:04:41 GMT -5 panicked said:

Don Quixote is on my list too! Man of La Mancha is my favorite musical (based on DQ), so I'm actually looking forward to reading it. Good for you for finishing it! What challenge are you doing? I'm reading the College Bound Top 100 list.

I use this list for my basis as well. I'm not really devoted to trying to finish it in a given time frame, though, so I'm not sure if it really counts as a challenge.

[aurora]

Well done! Sounds like it never really got better for you (as it didn't for me - I was also very relieved to finish).

[5kcandlesinthewind]

Congratulations on finishing it!

[whitepicketfence]

Whoo hoo!

[imoan]

GilliC- I hate to disappoint you... but you're spot on. That's exactly how I have been explaining it to friends "oh look- Don Quixote is delusional and gets mixed up into some delusional fight with an inanimate object. Oh look- Don Quixote gets his ass handed to him. Oh look- Don Quixote's delusional again and picks yet another fight with an inanimate object!" So yep- the entire book was like that. There was no big revelation... how it started was how it ended. It was something like 1200 pages of Don Quixote being psychotic.

[imoan]

Jun 4, 2012 8:04:41 GMT -5 panicked said:

Don Quixote is on my list too! Man of La Mancha is my favorite musical (based on DQ), so I'm actually looking forward to reading it. Good for you for finishing it! What challenge are you doing? I'm reading the College Bound Top 100 list.

That's a great list! Good luck!

I started a challenge for myself... I'm reading all the books mentioned (in order) throughout all 7 seasons of Gilmore girls. I started in September, and I'm only on episode 7 of season 1 (and I am a VERY fast reader). You can click on the pic in my sig- it links to my blog about my challenge.

[charminglife]

Jun 4, 2012 10:48:04 GMT -5 imoan said:

I started a challenge for myself... I'm reading all the books mentioned (in order) throughout all 7 seasons of Gilmore girls. I started in September, and I'm only on episode 7 of season 1 (and I am a VERY fast reader). You can click on the pic in my sig- it links to my blog about my challenge.

That's a really interesting challenge - how many books did they mention in the course of the show?

[imoan]

Jun 4, 2012 10:50:55 GMT -5 charminglife said:

Jun 4, 2012 10:48:04 GMT -5 imoan said:

I started a challenge for myself... I'm reading all the books mentioned (in order) throughout all 7 seasons of Gilmore girls. I started in September, and I'm only on episode 7 of season 1 (and I am a VERY fast reader). You can click on the pic in my sig- it links to my blog about my challenge.

That's a really interesting challenge - how many books did they mention in the course of the show?

I honestly refuse to count them. I don't want to psych myself out. I have a list that I obtained off of the internet (that someone had compiled), however it's kind of a fluid list. Before I start each episode, I do a viewing of that episode and update the list accordingly. I only really remove books if they're actually specifically referring to the movie, or if there is a better reference to that book later in the series. Otherwise, I've actually found myself ADDING books that whoever compiled the list missed as a reference.

[duckduck]

Good for you!

I am determined to get to that one someday. It might be my "I Swear I Will Read This in 2013" book.

[imoan]

duckduck- I'll give you a lot of credit. It's not a book that I'm glad I plowed through... although I like that I didn't give up when the going got tough and that I can say I read it. But the payoff wasn't quite worth it. LOL!

[duckduck]

Jun 4, 2012 13:10:54 GMT -5 imoan said:

duckduck- I'll give you a lot of credit. It's not a book that I'm glad I plowed through... although I like that I didn't give up when the going got tough and that I can say I read it. But the payoff wasn't quite worth it. LOL!

Hah, like Ulysses for me!

A couple of the characters in Louisa May Alcott's Rose in Bloom have this running bit going in reference to Don Quixote and ever since I read that book I've felt the need to read it. So I've been putting it off for like 15 years now and feel guiltier every year! Sigh.

[mayflowers22]

Yay!

[sporklemotion]

Congrats!

[imoan]

Little_Moxie... I'd say it averages around 5 per episode.. But there are some episodes that have upwards of 20.

[bookbunny]

Congratulations! That is awesome!

[duckduck]

Jun 4, 2012 21:13:42 GMT -5 imoan said:

Little_Moxie... I'd say it averages around 5 per episode.. But there are some episodes that have upwards of 20.

I knew it would be a lot, but wow!

[imoan]

Jun 5, 2012 12:33:39 GMT -5 @littlemoxie said:

Jun 4, 2012 21:13:42 GMT -5 imoan said:

Little_Moxie... I'd say it averages around 5 per episode.. But there are some episodes that have upwards of 20.

Holy crap! You are impressive!

I'm not sure how impressive I am... given how long it took me to read Don Quixote. But THANK YOU!

I actually just announced the next book on my blog...
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Muuuuuuuuch better!