Robert Martin’s Reviews > Don Quixote > Status Update

I love books that make you questions whether insane people are actually insane. One flew over the cuckoos nest was another that did that for me. It’s so easy to drive yourself mad. Sometimes I think it’s the simple people who are truly the most sane. The more we try to understand, the less sense we have. It’s all perspective.

Poop jokes are literally always funny

I love this book. Short digestible chapters with funny adventures and life lessons. Crazy how old it is

Chapter 7: now I know who sublime was talking about in Santeria

Chapter 6: I did not enjoy that lesson on 16th century Spanish literature. 24 notes in a 5 page chapter, most of them citing sources I really didn’t care about

Chapter 4: I wonder how all the people in the book know Quixote is bonkers. Was his way of speaking that dated for this time? I have a perfect image of this don. Cervantes does a great job at characterizing him

Chapter 2: why is this book so funny. Cervantes does a great job at making this seem cartoonish. Reminds me of Monty python. I wonder if this was the inspiration

Prologue: this was a difficult read. Sonnets and weird fill in the blank type poems talking about things in the book I have no reference to

1: so easy to read compared to the prologue. Turns out sir chicken thigh is a middle age man obsessed with the medieval equivalent of twilight? Hysterical