Don quixote which was a dream

It honestly was just boring and I didn't care for the way it was written, feminist retelling or not. Aug 11, David Blanchard rated it it was amazing Recommended to David by: denison aol.

This includes people who run universities, publishing companies, and the rewards system in the arts. Most people look at something that is not familiar and think it is wrong. Very few people are able to look at an authentic discovery and be grateful. Not sure what I just read fantstical descriptions in hopeless negativity. Sureal, felt a little lost and was glad it was over. Aug 09, Sarah rated it really liked it. I read this book on a plane. Don't do that. Actually, I take it back: do.

It's a good way to tell if someone is reading over your shoulder. Mar 09, Jane Gregg rated it it was amazing. The easiest of Acker's works to understand. You won't enjoy it, per se, but you will or should get it at least. Think Burroughs. Nov 22, Ryan rated it liked it Shelves: college-book. Last year I took a course in experimental fiction, and this book was one the syllabus.

I bought the book off of Amazon as soon as I could, but unfortunately, because so few people in the class could acquire it, we ended up not reading the book for the class. This is a political novel. Not just because it talks a lot about gender politics, and nuclear dis armament and ownership of women, Last year I took a course in experimental fiction, and this book was one the syllabus.

Not just because it talks a lot about gender politics, and nuclear dis armament and ownership of women, but because it literally involves politicians. And it involves their spouses as well.

And it involves those politicians and their spouses while they are fucking each other, while Death incarnate acts like a creepy fucking peeping Tom watching them doing it. So "Don Quixote" is a very political novel. As far as Kathy Acker's politics go, I can't say I disagree with them all that much.

But there's a problem with inserting politics into a novel, it's difficult to say that you dislike that novel without people assuming you dislike the politics. It's an annoying response. Awhile ago, I started to watch a lot of episodes of Penn and Teller's "Bullshit!

I was disappointed by what I saw going on. Whenever anyone said they disliked Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead or whatever because it was long-winded or boring, someone would come along and have a row with that person about the benefits of objectivism and Ayn Rand's weird brand of libertarianism.

In my mind, whether or not you agreed with her didn't matter when you judged the quality of her book. You shouldn't just excuse a poorly written book because you like a novelist's politics. I found it funny that this was the most common rebuttal. But I didn't enjoy it quite that much. Even though it was random in a funny and cool way, I feel like there was too much randomness to the point that the novel didn't have that much focus. Occasionally it's just incoherent. At one point, there is so much rambling about politics that there isn't much story at all and it was all downhill from there.

Her particular brand of feminism doesn't seem to be that complex, a lot of the time it amounts to saying, "Hey, dudes suck, eh? And though she details quite a lot of abuse, she seems to have this strange relation to it, because she acknowledges that she doesn't like anyone consistently good. It's difficult to sympathize with the main character if this is the case.

It might be her problem but it's not everyone's problem. And I really have to wonder why the book was called "Don Quixote". It's just a gimmicky thing to do. The two novels have very little in common. Dec 25, Michel Siskoid Albert rated it liked it. Punk poet Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is no easy read, and I do feel that she started losing me as the philosophical parables that make up most of the book piled up.

Far more than Cervantes' classic retold, this story of a woman going mad after an abortion and branding herself a knight deconstructs gender in an insightful way, and presents women's narrative as a largely male creation.

Despite Don Quixote herself usurping a male role from literature and Acker poaches from the entire history of lit Punk poet Kathy Acker's Don Quixote is no easy read, and I do feel that she started losing me as the philosophical parables that make up most of the book piled up. Despite Don Quixote herself usurping a male role from literature and Acker poaches from the entire history of literature, not this single work , getting out from under what men have decided women should care about is next to impossible.

Don't expect anything straightforward. I wouldn't call this a story so much as a manifesto, and that's perfectly legitimate, even if it did start to wear on this reader after a while. Jan 07, Tessa rated it it was amazing. I used to shelve books in my college library and one afternoon I stumbled upon this book. At the time I was extremely bored with fiction as a whole and had little interest in reading it.

The jacket description sounded interesting so I decided to start reading. I didn't stop. It was amazing. It made me rethink what fiction could be and changed my life in a major way. Jan 24, Kira rated it it was ok Shelves: xxth-c-literature , fiction-party. Apr 16, Greg Kemble rated it really liked it. Right up my alley, in that 80s postmodern pastiche.

Troubling, provocative, funny, depressing, confusing, challenging, rewarding Glad I read it again. May 06, Jasmin rated it liked it. Have read some other Acker books and enjoyed them much more. I found myself bored through much of the plotline, though I enjoyed the many dogs that became characters in the book. May 05, Bradley rated it liked it Recommends it for: empowered females, punks, rough and tumble types, also, students of experimental fiction.

Shelves: fictioncontemporary. Harsh tone, opens with an abortion- about a woman who decides the one thing she must do is fall in love with a man- cutting irony, disjointed narration, but unique and at times really captivating.

Jun 08, Hava rated it liked it Shelves: Good, but the hardest book I've ever read for fun. Jan 16, Marko rated it it was amazing. This is probably the best Kathy Acker book I've ever read. It's accessible, as much as her books can be. So fun! I love it. May 11, Leonard Pierce rated it liked it Shelves: fiction. Not at the heights of Acker's best stuff, but still a fine read, and a lot more widely funny than it seems at first glance.

Jul 01, Amy Christner rated it it was ok. I think I need to re-read this one Nov 09, Lisa rated it it was amazing. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one ». Readers also enjoyed. The United States Of America.

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