Don Quixote

I just now finished this incredibly awesome book. The first part of it I just thought was amusing but not particulary insightful or brilliant. But the second part blew me away. Damn, I loved it so much. And I just wanted all of his friends and family to leave him alone and let him be a knight errant in peace. The ending really made me sad too.

Anyone else really enjoy it? Not enjoy it? Have no interest whatsoever in it?

 

I haven't actually read the book yet but I'm familiar with the story. Lotta symbalism.

Ever hear the soundtrack from the Man of Lamancha? "To dream the impossible dream..."

 

I've actually never seen that movie. Is it good?

 

I don't know if they ever made a movie, it was on broadway forever. Haven't seen the play either but I've heard the soundtrack. My mom was really into musicals. "To Dream the Impossible Dream" was one of my favorite songs when I was a kid.

 

I believe " the Man of LaMancha" was a movie about Don Quixote.

 

That is very true. It has Peter O'Toole in it I believe. The only movie I have seen about Don Quixote is "Lost in La Mancha" about Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to make a movie about Don Quixote.

 

That is sweet Naykid, I don't think I've ever heard the song though.

 

I wish I could remember all the words.

"To dream the impossible dream,

To fight the unbeatable foe

To bear the unbearable sorrow

To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong

To love pure and chaste from afar

To strive when your arms are too weary

To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest

To follow that star

No matter how hopeless

No matter how far

To be able to act

Without reason or pause

To be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true

To this glorious quest

That my heart will ....."

That's all I remember. The music's incrediable too.

 

I actually think that I would really like it. I really like the lyrics. I'll have to find it on the net or something so that I can listen to it.

 

Don Quioxte..My favorite book in the whole entire universe, in its time it was the first of its kind.
The estranged wanderer so connected to his dreams of chivalry and justice.

I read this book just for the hell of it even though ive read it twenty bazillion times, the story never tires. I could go on about it forever,
I truly beleive in the codes of chivalry and all the hubub of Don quioxte

 

It is a beautiful novel. I was definitely in love with Don Quixote by the end

 

Great Book!!!!!

 

Yes, it is a good book. And yes, contrary togeneral opinion, I'd have to agree the second part was better than the first.

It actually resembles a modern novel very much. Unnaturally so.

 

I only read a quarter or so, loved what I read, but it just made me really sad that he was so retreated in this fantasy existence (didn't finish so forgive me if I made the wrong conclusion) so didn't continue.
But after seeing the movie Big Fish, I came to the conclusion that happiness is happiness, even if it is imagination derived...
Im gonna start again

 

I love it! It's one of my all-time favorite books. I love the fact that my roots are in the home city of Miguel de Cervantes. When you are in Spain, I recommend you visit some of the places related to the book, including Alcalá de Henares (Miguel's hometown) and, of course, the windmills of La Mancha.