Another Great Classic!

I love this book! I can't believe it was written 400 years ago. The humor is extreme, the action is fun and the book is just a great read.
This book is broken in two sections. It was originally published as two separate books. Actually, it was first published as a cereal novel in a newspaper, I think.
The first section (book 1) was a little hard to follow at times, but never too difficult to take away from the pleasure. There are novellas in a few places. Some have claimed that these 'books in a book' stop the action and ruin the telling of the story. I disagree, and in fact, enjoyed the new stories and was refreshed for the returning of the original story. The novellas are still part of the story, too. For example, in one scene Don Quixote and Sancho are in an Inn and the owner tells them that one of his previous guests left behind a book that they might find interesting, and he read it to them. It was really good!
The second part of the book (book 2) was the best. The story flow was beautiful and new characters came and went with the old characters.
De Cervantes also filled the book with his own little 'inside jokes'. He named characters after people in his real life, and made fun of another author that had published a 'non-official' Don Quixote Pat Two book.
I never had the urge to read this novel before, because all I knew about it was that Don Quixote was a crazy man that attacked wind mills. In fact, that was only one scene from the very first part of the book. I think the whole scene took up maybe a page or two. It was a drop in the bucket of this book!
At 940 pages, this is offically the longest book I've ever read, knocking off the previous champ, Wally Lamb's "I Know This Much Is True", which weighed in at a hefty 901 pages.