Review to follow. This would be for the SECOND part of DQ.

I first finished Part I of Don Quixote fifty years ago, and, although I never got around to reading Part II, over the years I managed to convince myself that I had. I suspect this may be true of many other readers as well, for when people share their favorite parts of the story, they invariably mention the battles with windmills and wine skins, the inn courtyard vigil and the blanket toss, but hardly ever bring up Don Quixote's vision in the dark cavern, the manipulations of the Duke and Duchess...

A colourful baroque canvas of Seventheenth century Spain. Prepare to fall under a spell when you pick this up, but also leave all your 21rst century political correctness behind: here is a world of pure virgin maidens, evil heathen Arabs, blessed Catholic Inquisition, noblest kings and lords, subhuman Turks.It got rather repetitive after a while but I really loved it. I'm used to reading novels situated four centuries in the past, but rarelly have I read a book actually written 400 years ago! Ho...

Sardonic and tongue in cheek. An amusing and touching tale of the final exploits of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

This is the only book that has ever caused me to cry because I was laughing so hard. I can't believe a novel written so long ago and translated to English can still entertain so well. One of my all time favorites and without a doubt, a timeless classic.

Probably the best book in the world! Don Quixote voted best book ever Don Quixote is the world's best book say the world's top authors The top 100 books of all time Dostoevsky on Don Quixote:'There is nothing in life more powerful than this piece of fiction. It is still the final and the greatest expression of human thought, the most bitter irony that a human is capable of expressing; and if the world came to an end and people were asked somewhere there: ‘Well, did you un...

It's hard to make a summary of what I liked about this. Even more daring than its first part, Cervantes must deal with the release of a fake second part, and the intertextuality becomes deeper as the layers between reality and fantasy erase.We can witness the transformation of Quixote in a "sane man" but also dwell into secondary motives like, the conformation of a government, the motives of carnival and theatrical representation in two opportunities, the way the characters seem to treat Don Qui...

This one sucked, too.

Book two of Don Quixote is even better than the first, largely due to the meta fiction element the author introduces in response to the unauthorised sequel written by another author published before his own was released. The ending is also genuinely moving. A book truly worthy of the ‘classic’ label’.My next book: The Avengers vol. 7: The Age of Khonshu

Well, well, I did enjoy this, having determined not to read this, having been underwhelmed by the first book. But ...Cribbing from SparkNotes:"On one level, the first volume of Don Quixote is a parody of the romances of Cervantes’s time. Don Quixote rides out like any other knight-errant, searching for the same principles and goals and engaging in similar battles. During these battles, he invokes chivalric ideals, regardless of how ridiculous his adventures may be. On another level, however, the...

There’s a remedy for everything except death andHolding the power and the staff, I’ll do whatever I want andThey’ll come for wool and go back shorn! and whenThe lucky man has nothing to worry about,The foolish remarks of the rich man pass for wisdom in the world!(from the rich collection of Sancho Panza's proverbs)I read somewhere how you should read D.Q. three times in your lifetime: the first time it will make you laugh, the second time it'll make you think, and the third time it will make you...

I accidentally read this the right way. What this means is that I accidentally read Volume 1, took a five year break, and then read Volume 2 instead of reading them both together as most publishers have currently printed them rather than how Miguel Cervantes wrote them (actually pretty similar to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women). (I mean, technically, I could’ve waited ten years instead of five to read the second volume since that’s how much time passed between his writing them, but let’s not b...

SURPASSES PART I IN BOTH COMEDY AND PLOT, ALONG WITH SOME EXCELLENT EARLY "FAN SERVICE"I was willing, but not necessarily excited, to proceed with Part II after reading Part I (see my review from 28-Sep), but I quickly became surprised that I enjoyed Part II much more than Part I--a solid 4-star read! I won't re-hash my thoughts or synopses, but just plunge into why this volume is better.*EARLY "FAN SERVICE": Miguel de Cervantes, as I understand it, was an instant success following the publicati...

I read Parts I and Part IIFirst off, how do give one of the great contributions to western civilization anything but 5 stars? It was written 400 years ago and its protagonists, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, and their story are loved and well known to people all over the globe. It was arguably the first novel, and no one else would replicate that achievement for over a hundred years. I had not read _Don Quixotte_ since my university days, and I was surprised how little time Quixote and Panza actu...

I really enjoyed this book. I saw how people are manipulated by hope. How those that manipulate with hope often sound very convincing of things that they really do not have to give. Often people may believe in the reality of their hope to such an extent as to see it as having been attained. There are a lot of illusions that people buy into when they adopt a rigid way of thinking. I also liked watching the relationships between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. It reminded me of a parent child relati...

Today I finished Part 2 of the full "Don Quixote" epic. Given the year that this book was written, it is remarkably funny, and I found that it aged extremely well. I thought that "Book 2" moved at a much better pace than "Book 1." I didn't dislike the extra stories within the story found in "Book 1," but "Book 2's" plot (which didn't have these extra entries) allowed the story to feel like it was building towards something instead of being simply a road novel.

A person is to read this 3 times in his life as explained in the Prologue by Cervantes: Early, Middle and Late Age. Those are the three phases Quixote goes through until the end of the story. This is a must read in Spanish, as most translations lose the beauty of the original language which Saavedra used.

I liked it more than the first part, full of action and fun, less love stories.

Be sure to read my review of Part I before reading this. I won’t repeat what I said there.Part I was published in 1605. Part II was published in 1615. Part I was an immediate success. While Cervantes was working on Part II, a spurious part II entitled “Second Volume of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha: by the Licenciado (doctorate) Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda, of Tordesillas” was published. That book is very hard to come by today. No one knows the actual identity of Avellaneda...

“CHAPTER 74 How Don Quixote fell sick, made his will, and died.” That chapter heading was the most satisfying and exciting of the entire book. Don Quixote de la Mancha Part II is, as it says in the title, the second part of Miguel de Cervantes’s satirical adventure novel. It continues the sallying forth of titular character Don Quixote and his squire, Sancho Panza, as they meet with people of various backgrounds and participate in humorous exploits. What makes the second part different from the