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<blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 1299106" data-attributes="member: 509">I'm about 1/3 through the first volume (of two) of Don Quixote. I know the story pretty well (after seeing numerous TV and movie versions), but I got both volumes for christmas from my dad. Started reading it on New Year's Day. Although fun, it's a slow text.Not much has happened yet, except a row of humourus scenes where Don Quixote gets humuliated. Still, I'm gettin' a bit restless, so I'll probably take a rest of the book and revisit it in a couple of weeks or so.On Christmas Day I read The Science of Superheroes by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg (my extended family seems to be finally gettin' it into their heads that I'm not goin' to grow out of this stuff <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> ). While a quite interesting read, not much of the material was news to me and I don't agree&nbsp;with their assumption that the lame science in superhero books has much to do with the lame sale figures (I might think differently if all those big movies that are all the rage had any better science, but alas, they do not).Sometime between christmas and new year's I read Mephisto by Klaus Mann.&nbsp;While entertaining and probably quite important for it's time, I can't shake the feelin' of Deja Vu. Idealistic Artistic Type sells out to the Fascist Regime (tm). Probably saw the movie sometime.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Viking Bastard, post: 1299106, member: 509"] I'm about 1/3 through the first volume (of two) of Don Quixote. I know the story pretty well (after seeing numerous TV and movie versions), but I got both volumes for christmas from my dad. Started reading it on New Year's Day. Although fun, it's a slow text. Not much has happened yet, except a row of humourus scenes where Don Quixote gets humuliated. Still, I'm gettin' a bit restless, so I'll probably take a rest of the book and revisit it in a couple of weeks or so. On Christmas Day I read [i]The Science of Superheroes[/i] by Lois H. Gresh and Robert Weinberg (my extended family seems to be finally gettin' it into their heads that I'm not goin' to grow out of this stuff :D ). While a quite interesting read, not much of the material was news to me and I don't agree with their assumption that the lame science in superhero books has much to do with the lame sale figures (I might think differently if all those big movies that are all the rage had any better science, but alas, they do not). Sometime between christmas and new year's I read [i]Mephisto [/i]by Klaus Mann. While entertaining and probably quite important for it's time, I can't shake the feelin' of Deja Vu. Idealistic Artistic Type sells out to the Fascist Regime (tm). Probably saw the movie sometime. [/QUOTE]

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