Apparently I didn't feel the need to blog the beginning of my mission to read Don Quixote, but I wanted to make a note that I finally finished it the other night, about a year after I began. To make myself feel better, I'll point out that it's really two books. Yeah, I feel a lot better now.

Anyway, it's an amazing book, if not for the story, then for the idea of the story, if that makes any sense. Reading the intro was about the best thing I could have done to maintain incentive to finish.

Other books I've read in an effort to appear smart to the BART-riding intellectuals when I first got this job two and a half years ago (who I haven't seen since I started driving to work 2 years ago):

The Tale of Genji
The Odyssey
Les Miserables
The Count of Monte Cristo

Now I need another classic - any recommendations?