"There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it." 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 
 Oh this is a funny book! A funny, and very long and tedious at times books. Because it's so long there really is a lot of "something good in it." :-) 
 The best parts were the characters that described perfectly the crazy people in my own life and the arguably crazier people around them supporting them in their ridiculous decisions! 
 There were parts in the first book that were tedious and challenging to get through, but the characters grow on you, and especially in the second book I really began to appreciate it. It got quite funny when other surrounding characters would make fun of the main characters. For some reason it became funnier to me at this point, almost like a release valve. Others were agreeing with me on the ridiculousness of the main character's actions. I laughed out loud several times. 
 Oh Pancho and your sayings... 
 Anyway, I'd definitely recommend this book, and look forward to reading it with my kids some day, (an abridged version, though :-) 
 Here's some favorite quotes: 
 -"Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind." 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 
 "What man can pretend to know the riddle of a woman's mind?" 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 
 "Thou hast seen nothing yet." 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 
 "Destiny guides our fortunes more favorably than we could have expected. Look there, Sancho Panza, my friend, and see those thirty or so wild giants, with whom I intend to do battle and kill each and all of them, so with their stolen booty we can begin to enrich ourselves. This is nobel, righteous warfare, for it is wonderfully useful to God to have such an evil race wiped from the face of the earth." 
 "What giants?" Asked Sancho Panza. 
 "The ones you can see over there," answered his master, "with the huge arms, some of which are very nearly two leagues long." 
 "Now look, your grace," said Sancho, "what you see over there aren't giants, but windmills, and what seems to be arms are just their sails, that go around in the wind and turn the millstone." 
 "Obviously," replied Don Quijote, "you don't know much about adventures." 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 
 "... he who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is..." 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 
 "When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams -- this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness -- and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!" 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote 
 "It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up." 
 -- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote