Good reading

[The Great Quail]

> Actually, I think it gets better after the first 100 pages or so.

My favorite parts of the book are toward the second half, in "Book II."
Written a few years after Book I, Cervantes addresses some of the criticisms
of the first book, and a lot of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza's adventures
occur because people *recognize* who they are -- having read Book I -- and
send them up in various ways.

Still, it does get pretty repetitive, but it's less digressive and tedious
than Book I. Though Cervantes has an axe to grind against some poor sod who
wrote his own "unauthorized" sequel. Man, I thought Joyce went overboard in
using his fiction to bash his enemies! He has nothing on Mikey C.

--Quail