Anybody ever made it through DON QUIXOTE? I tried, honestly I did.

[raccoon]

I tried listening to it on audiobook. Got to CD #5 this morning...and then I couldn't take it any more.
It was the chapter where Don Quixote and Sancho threw up on each other. For me, that was the last straw--I thought,
why am I wasting my time with this?

I can see satirizing novels about chivalry; but why go on and on and on with it? :shrug:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. in three different languages, yes.

Remember that it was written as a serial, with chapters coming out one at a time. I think it is a very fine book.

In some ways, Lord of the Rings also starts slow, until you get into it.

[PassingFair]

2. Look for the Tobias Smollett translation.

I felt the way you do until I found his version....

[FSogol]

3. LOL, Better steer clear of James Joyce's "Ulysses" and "Remembrance of Things Past"

by Marcel Proust.

[raccoon]

6. Tried ULYSSES and put it down quickly. Thanks for the heads up about ROTP. nt

[FSogol]

7. If you want a suggestion of a great, great classic you will like, try "Lord Jim" by Joseph Conrad.

Or anything by Conrad.

[raccoon]

8. You must be psychic; I've been thinking about Lord Jim lately. I read the Classics Illustrated

version. In some ways I can identify with Jim.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Yes, somewhere around middle school.

[JackintheGreen]

5. Read and loved it in HS, but it is proof why

writers should not be paid by the word.

Read about 100 pages at a time, then put it down for a month or two. That's how it was published.

(but yes, he does go on and on and on, doesn't he?)

[BlueIris]

9. I'm...trying to try.

Haven't been successful yet. My copy is just...sitting there.

[fadedrose]

10. You wanna quit?

You don't need my blessing - just quit and find something you like better..life is short.

I never read Don Kehoty and I get along alright.

[raccoon]

12. I did quit.

:-) :hi:

Ita...life is short...too short to read something you're totally bored with.

Unless it's required for a class, but even then, there are Cliff Notes.

[DemoTex]

11. Donkey Oder?

I read it for a creative writing teacher at SMU a few years ago (when I lived in Dallas). It was a tough read for me.

[The Northerner]

13. I tried twice

and I'm considering a third try once I finish reading the novel that I'm currently reading.

[Enrique]

14. it starts getting good about page 800 or so

;-)