Comments on: Bigger Than I Expected http://www.girldetective.net/?p=157 Reading, Writing, Movies and Mothering in Minneapolis, Mostly Tue, 12 May 2026 04:14:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: girldetective http://www.girldetective.net/?p=157&cpage=1#comment-2525 girldetective Fri, 22 Apr 2005 21:01:00 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=157#comment-2525 I made it through the translator's intro, which was charming, Harold Bloom's intro, which I found needlessly abstruse, and 50+ pages into the book itself, which I enjoyed, though it did hurt my wrists to hold the book unsupported. As a child, one of my favorite books was Little Women, which I read again and again. I was shocked as an adult to discover that I'd only ever read an abridged version, so I was in my mid-thirties before I read all of Little Women. I made it through the translator’s intro, which was charming, Harold Bloom’s intro, which I found needlessly abstruse, and 50+ pages into the book itself, which I enjoyed, though it did hurt my wrists to hold the book unsupported.

As a child, one of my favorite books was Little Women, which I read again and again. I was shocked as an adult to discover that I’d only ever read an abridged version, so I was in my mid-thirties before I read all of Little Women.

]]> By: Nopenname http://www.girldetective.net/?p=157&cpage=1#comment-2504 Nopenname Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:11:15 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=157#comment-2504 Don Quixote is really a very very good book, I've had the joy of reading it in both English and Spanish...AND I had an abridged version that I read when I was like 14 and I didn't realize just how much of it I was missing. They tend to leave out the different narrators and focus JUST on Don Quixote's foibles, and really the two narrators are the best part. Don Quixote is really a very very good book, I’ve had the joy of reading it in both English and Spanish…AND I had an abridged version that I read when I was like 14 and I didn’t realize just how much of it I was missing.

They tend to leave out the different narrators and focus JUST on Don Quixote’s foibles, and really the two narrators are the best part.

]]> By: duff. http://www.girldetective.net/?p=157&cpage=1#comment-2488 duff. Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:27:15 +0000 http://www.girldetective.net/?p=157#comment-2488 maybe there's an abridged version? :) i know it was of biblical proportions, likely why I don't think I've ever read the entire thing. i hope you caught V. Mars.... more kissing! woot! maybe there’s an abridged version? :)
i know it was of biblical proportions, likely why I don’t think I’ve ever read the entire thing.

i hope you caught V. Mars…. more kissing! woot!

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