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2.0
I’ve tried to read the full novel of Don Quixote and couldn’t even make it through half (I found it boring but a classmate found it quite funny). Though I was able to make it through this much shorter graphic novel/illustrated introduction, my feelings toward the story have not changed. Don Quixote seems to be a senile old fool and the fact that he was not killed by his various “adventures” is practically a miracle.
800slim's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
rebus's review
4.5
The Western canon always preaches wrongly that this is the first true novel, but leave it to Eisner to take a long and largely too complex, chaotic and miserably unreadable novel and turn it into a charming SINGLY issue of a comic book (presented as a graphic novel it is but a modern single issue).
It's brilliant. He sums up the very essence of the book and is, as ever, the single master of gesture and human facial expression the field of cartooning has ever known (he displays so much that a lot of Cervantes lugubrious descriptive prose is not missed).
It's brilliant. He sums up the very essence of the book and is, as ever, the single master of gesture and human facial expression the field of cartooning has ever known (he displays so much that a lot of Cervantes lugubrious descriptive prose is not missed).
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