/lit/ - Literature

>>12382356
>getting good 3/4 of the way in.
There's no such thing.
Don Quixote was good from the beginning.

>>12382356
It gets good when the priest starts reading stories?

3/4th of the way in is when DQ gets good?
I hope they find a cure for your type of retardation son.

>>12382356
>tfw skipped chapter six

The opening of Don Quixote is one of the best openings of all time.

That book is pretty good the whole way through, the last half of part one is the only part Id say MAYBE is a little weaker than the rest

>>12382356
This shit was good start to finish. Read like Monty Python with a Spanish theme.

Part one is a repetitive, poorly executed slog of a read. Part two is like it was written by a completely different author who actually knew what he was doing

>>12382410
That's halfway in though

>>12382699
>>12382758
I honestly liked part 1 more. Part 2 spent too much time with the Duke and duchess

>>12382356
>>12382758
here's your (you) 's

>>12382395
This. OP is a faggot as usual

>>12382395
Exactly this. Engaging from the start.

>>12382762
But that's the best part? Separating Pancho from his master led to the two characters' best moments.

>>12382762
I also enjoyed part one more. Part two is a like books inside a book, though the stories are extremely well written and interesting, but yeah, part one is fun and funny as hell.
Also, is there any scene in the western canon funnier than Sancho taking a shit sitting close to Quijote?

>Don Quixote, hearing it, said, “What noise is that, Sancho?”
>“I don’t know, senor,” said he; “it must be something new, for adventures and
misadventures never begin with a trifle.” Once more he tried his luck, and succeeded so well, that without any further noise or disturbance he found himself relieved of the burden that had given him so much discomfort. But as Don
Quixote’s sense of smell was as acute as his hearing, and as Sancho was so
closely linked with him that the fumes rose almost in a straight line, it could not
be but that some should reach his nose, and as soon as they did he came to its relief by compressing it between his fingers, saying in a rather snuffing tone, “Sancho, it strikes me thou art in great fear.”

>>12383895
>is there any scene in western canon funnier than a poop joke
I fucking hope so

>>12383948
Then post a better joke faggot

>>12383948
obviously you have not read it, and it is even more obvious that a butchered, isolated excerpt of a 800 pages book is not going to have the same effect as it would if you were reading the whole thing

>>12383948
It's a pretty great poop joke, though

i liked part 1 better than part 2

>>12383819
>Pancho

>>12383975
>you have to read a whole book to appreciate a poop joke.

Ive read the whole book and enjoyed it but what you just said is fucking retarded.

>>12384203
I liked part 2 better than part 1

>>12384322
>everything i've been told to believe is being challenged! I'd better devastate this wrong-thinker by pointing out a simple mistake

The weakest parts of Don Quixote are definitely the parts that don't deal with either of the duo. Who gives a fuck about Cardinio and his Moor waifu or whatever.

>>12383975
>"it's a SOPHISTICATED poop joke"

>>12382356
Pale Fire goes from good to fucking god tier about 3/4ths in

>>12383895
>Quixote’s sense of smell was as acute as his hearing
What is it with Don Quijotes senses anyway? That malnourished nigga is in his 50s, reading all night every night by candle light, and yet he as eyes like hawk and ears like a cat.

>>12385216
>he didn't like the Novella of the Man Who Was Recklessly Curious
pleb

The insulted and the injured. Not 3/4 but aren't half way is where it's gets really good before that it's just character building.

>>12384383
sancho's goofyness builds up as his relationship with quijote develops and as they go through the adventures. Just reading the joke alone is extremely different than reading the book from the beginning.
Its a book, not a stand up comedy.

The Holly Bibble

Anything by Mishima

>>12384763
>I'm unable to perform even the simplest of tasks. Why should anyone listen to what I have to say?

>>12386339
Where do I find a good solid copy of this? Amazon has these cheap looking prints and looks awful

>>12386894
Are you fucking stupid? Hundreds of pages of Sancho's character development makes his time as a governor hilarious because THAT required a whole book's worth of build up to really nail the joke. You couldn't see why that whole scenario was funny unless you really knew the character. The poop joke is just a poop joke

>>12383819
>Pancho

>>12383948
>>12383967
Not him, but the diarrhea scene in Love in the Time of Cholera was a gut buster.
>Sir, it looks like cholera.
Lol

Infinite Jest gets good about 600 pages in but the next 400 are amazing