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Chapter 2: honestly the whole premise of the book is fair. Taking all the Bible to be truth but dispelling other great books, regardless how asinine the events, is a dissonance that many still alive hold. All the things called fantasy in these books of chivalry are called miracles in the Bible. Holding one to be truth and the other falsehood is ridiculous. Sanity is relative.

Part 1 end: this book is so damn funny. Page 468 between don Quixote and the canon was the funniest exchange I could imagine. The entire lead up to him breaking his nose with bread is just perfect.

More poop jokes!!!!

Chapter 45 was the funniest chapter ive read yet. Cervantes did such a great job at personifying each person prior to that disaster, that I felt as if I were in the room

This is a beautifully intertwined book. I find the short back stories of these characters to be fun to read. It’s just enough to give you a thorough understanding of the side character so that they can watch sir thighpiece embarrass himself

The story telling in this book is remarkable. The story lines that all just intertwined were such a pleasure to read. I’m not sure what’s making me fly through this book, the translation or the plot, but it’s great. It’s so funny how fine the line of madness is. Don Quixote is a very smart man who rationalized himself into irrationality.

The princess bride?? Inconceivable. This has to be the book that inspired that

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