Don Quixote Read-A-Long March 2017 discussion

Share your thoughts below on Book Two.

Is there anyone using 'enchantment' more then usual in their daily conversations? Maybe it's just me...

Haha, I can see how that would happen!

I started Book Two a few days ago and I'm already noticing a bit of a difference in the writing style... it's almost like there are longer conversations and monologues in this section? We'll see.

Read the scene about Don Quixote and the lions yesterday and was smiling the entire time.

Poor Sancho! Love how he was all, "My poor master! !!! ... I'm still leaving on my donkey tho." I swear he will have to get treated for PTSD when this is all over. (Does it have to be over?)

Yes Miriam, I agree, the conversations are all very long-winded and drawn out, and so much happens... I think reading 30 pages a day has really helped me in that sense, they don't feel quite as long for me, but I can see how they could for others who read more chunks at a time.

I'm more than half-way through Book Two at this point and I have to say, I'm disappointed in the role the Duke and the Duchess have played so far.

Having fun and being 'amused' at Don Quixote's expense kind of cheapens things for me. It's not as funny or charming to see Don Quixote being manipulated and made fun of. Especially when Sancho is also involved, and it happens more than once. Several times in fact. It doesn't sit well with me, probably because at this point in the book I feel like I know Don Quixote and Sancho and care about them as human beings, and having them be the laughingstock isn't so great.

I wonder why Cervantes went in this direction. I've read that Book Two was not as well received, and I'm starting to wonder if it's because Book Two is so different.