Thread 24854603

Anything I need to know before I read?

>>24854603 (OP)
It was written a really long time ago

>>24854603 (OP)
2/10 at best unless you force yourself to find it funny.

>>24854603 (OP)
It's good up until the brown mountain. I stopped there

So at least a good 200 pages are funny at the start

>>24854603 (OP)
It's a crude and cruel old book.

>>24854603 (OP)
Relax your throat and polish your kneepads

>>24854603 (OP)
Spanish

>>24854603 (OP)
It is not supposed to be funny, its a tragedy.

>>24854603 (OP)
It's good and it's important and you should definitely read it but it's definitely not going to be as good as everyone has told you it's going to be and are thinking it's going to be in your head.

reading all these replies... what happened to this board?

It's a slow read, don't expect it to be constant tilting at windmills and whatever.

>>24854603 (OP)
>Anything I need to know
Just fucking read the book you monumental retard. Good christ. Why can't you people just actually engage with something without a primer first.

Grossman translation has fluid and engaging prose.

>>24854603 (OP)
it's too damn long and not interesting enough to justify the length

Get ready for the suken cost fallacy. I hope you've got a lot of patience. You're not gonna have much "fun" past a certain point.
I personally hate it tbf. It's aged terribly.

>>24854761
Indians and jews have become the vast majority of this site's user base.

All they ever read is epics of dudes riding across a rope swing over a poop gorge, while he's on his way to rape someone

see (any bahubali movie)

Is it a pretty straightforward read or is it closer to Tristam Shandy?

>>24854761
It's been like this for a while. I don't think anyone who comes here now actually reads, just like nobody who goes to /fit/ nowadays actually lifts.

>>24855363
can confirm, i started coming to /lit/ recently and i can't read due to severe OCD, i get stuck reading the same chapter 1000 times and never make any progress

i guess you could say i came from /v/ since that was my main board before coming here

>>24855363
God, working out is such a waste of fucking time. People dont want to admit its for vain purposes. The same as wearing makeup for women

>>24855363
>nooo you're not allowed to have a different opinion!!!
>you must parrot everything we say and praise books you dislike!!!
>m-m-muh wholesome safe space echo chamber!!!

>>24855444
I only respect different opinions when they come from white users.

>>24854603 (OP)
> Anything I need to know before I read?
Realize you were born in a spanish world

>>24855446
American board buddy, you're wasting your time here

>>24855363
I do and shall be the last dual /fit/izen and /lit/izen.
>>24855393
>God, reading is such a waste of fucking time. People dont want to admit its for vain purposes. The same as wearing makeup for women
silly

>>24854603 (OP)
He references lots of chivalry literature of its time. It isn't necessary to read them, but make sure to have an annotated version. It has some of arthurian legend and also lots of general literature (Greekroman mythology, christianity, I can't remember if it had nordic myth). So yea, Homer, Virgil, and Ovid should help you understand some references but as I've said before, you can just stick to the footnotes.
Try to read it with a blank mind, without preconceived ideas. The message is not only pretty simple but also directly said multiple times through volume 1.

>>24854712
I only felt bad for Quijote once, the first time he fell from his horse. Most of the book is written as a comedy.

>>24855393
Well lets be fair here. Working out comes with a lot of benefits besides just making you look good and unlike makeup it isnt "fake".

>>24854761
Yup it reads exactly like a tiktok comment section

>>24854761
Letting broccoliheads post was a mistake.

>>24854603 (OP)
Everyone who thought this book was about making the idea of chivalry or honor and the fascination with medieval virtues look stupid was objectively wrong and failed to understand the book.

>>24854603 (OP)
It's actually two books. One book was supposed to be enough, but an official sequel had to be written in order to disavow an unofficial sequel.

>>24856285
Yea. It really is just an exaggerated parody of a social problem from the time. Peasants didn't know how to read, so they thought of scriptures as real because only intellectuals could write them, even fantasy, mythology, or chivalry stories.

>>24854603 (OP)
Spain is to hot for the inhabitants to develope a sense of humour