I haven't been that into reading classic novels. I don't think I've read any Dickens or many other great authors, but I have been trading advantage of some of the free ebooks out there to do a bit of catching up. I try to always have one in my phone for those occasions when I need to pass the time.
Previously I've read Frankenstein and I just finished Don Quixote. I have to admit that is taken me over a year, but that shows how little time I find for this sort of reading. I will also have some other book on the go for reading in bed.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes was published in 1605 The translation I read is by John Ormsby from 1885.
I have to say it's a funny book. It's of the same era as Shakespeare, so you have to get used to the language style and there were a few words I had to guess at the meaning of. It is thought to be one of the first modern novels and was very popular in its time.
The book gave us the word quixotic and phrases such as tilting at windmills.
I was inspired to read it by this episode of Radiolab.
I log my reading on Goodreads
