Its more like reading a Batman series and being asked "so which Robin this was" and you just freeze because you cant remember if it is Dick, Jason, or Tim, you just know there is a Robin, so they go "Ah, you never read it!"
this is true. the amount of times i’ve forgotten the names of friends after not seeing them for a few months. not ultra close friends, but people i had known for well over a year
Haven't read Don Quixote myself, but that being the case, I'm guessing OOP just read too quickly and didn't really take it in that well.
I ADHD out while reading sometimes and if i read half a book in a day, there's a good chance I've missed some important stuff and will need to go back to understand things happening in the end.
Though names always get me, I'm on a Terry Pratchett thing at the moment and i find fantasy names insanely difficult to remember.
It's also a bit of a strage word that has no meaning, and thus easily forgotten. Not really relevant to the content of the book either, may as well have been called Buttons for all I care.
Surely, a follow-up question about the actual meat of the book would have helped
It does have a meaning. It means “strong” in spanish. Its supposed to reinforce the craziness of Quijote, since his horse is, in fact, very skinny and weak.
It doesn't mean "strong". "Rocín" means "nag/work horse" (as opposed to war horse) and "antes" means "before" (here like "before and first of".
Cervantes himself explains the meaning:
EN
"Four days passed as he tried to imagine what name he would give him... and so, after many names that he formed, erased, and removed, added, undid, and made again in his memory and imagination, he finally decided to call him Rocinante, a name that seemed to him lofty, sonorous, and significant of what he had been when he was a 'nag, before' what he was now, which was before and first of all the nags in the world" (that is, "skin and bones"), but which Don Quixote still saw as "a better mount than the famous Babieca of the Cid and Bucephalus of Alexander the Great."
ES
«Cuatro días se le pasaron en imaginar que nombre le pondría... y así después de muchos nombres que formó borró y quitó, añadió, deshizo y tornó a hacer en su memoria e imaginación, al fin le vino a llamar Rocinante, nombre a su parecer alto, sonoro y significativo de lo que había sido cuando fue “rocín, antes” de lo que ahora era, que era antes y primero de todos los rocines del mundo» (es decir «piel y huesos»), pero al que Don Quijote aún seguía viendo como «mejor montura que los famosos Babieca del Cid y Bucéfalo de Alejandro Magno».
To be fair, its not exactly a common word, even in spanish. A normal reader would not think much more of it. Although a bit of extra analysis would tell you that its supposed to be a honourable sounding name.
Right, except humans are more complicated than that. If you did such test to me, you'd think I'm retarded, when in reality I just have short term memory loss. I literally don't remember what I read 20 seconds ago.
Personally speaking, there a dozens of books I could talk about in great detail extensively, including the overall narrative, themes, setting, and yet I could not tell you the main character’s name
If anon read the whole book in two days, it's likely they were speed reading. Going very fast, absorbing the text, but not as deeply as you would if you took longer to read the book. It's a genuine tactic for reading faster, to sort of skim the lines and let your brain fill in the blanks of the text. It's how a lot of voracious readers just pound out multiple 200-400 page books a week. OP could have very well read the whole book, loved it, but never spent enough time really absorbing it to commit any one character's name to memory on command.
It honestly reminds me of the fake ADHD test from South Park.
They do something like stick a bunch of kids in a room and read them war and Peace and then ask a completely random question about some random part of the book.
If the kids didn't know the answer they had ADHD because they couldn't pay attention and had to take Ritalin.
I had a horrible literature class in college where we read like two thirds of Hamlet (we didn't even have time to finish it) and then the tests were just random unattributed lines from the play asking who said it and for the context. Absolute dogshit methodology
If this is real, it’s a bad teaching moment. Better teaching moment would have been, “No worries Anon, everyone blanks sometimes, let’s try a different question!”
Idk I remember reading a 500 page book that I took in the 8:30 and finished reading in like 15:00. It depends on how fast do you read and how good you are at not being distracted.
Really? We had to suffer through so many full versions. We even had to fully memorize a scene from Romeo and Juliet, and then perform it in front of the class (mind you this was AP lit, not theatre)
Don’t get me wrong, Shakespeare is considered one of the best writers to ever live for a reason. I do enjoy his work. But god damn can it be a drag to get through, especially in highschool.
I have to use spreeder for my reading. Without it, I'm probably clocking 150wpm, with it I can maintain 500-550wpm for casual and 350-450 for peer reviewed papers; with full comprehension and recall.
1000wpm is possible, but I can only get the gist of what I'm reading and can't do it very long.
when i starting to read metro trilogy i liked it so much and reading was the only thing i ddi in middleschool i finished the whoel trilogy in 3 days in school
Tbh this is me when it comes to character names though. Book or movie, I can't ever remember names specifically, and it makes people question whether I've actually read the book or not.
"Yeah I liked Lord of the Flies. It was crazy when that one kid was elected leader, but later they kill that one kid and that other kid gets hunted".
I've never read the book. Is the name of the horse really obvious, like 'Hedwig' is for Harry Potter's owl, or is it really niche and never mentioned, like Neville Longbottom's pet frog >!Trevor< ?
The horse is literally the second most referenced character in the book. Forgetting the name could be excused, we all draw a blank from time to time. What is ridiculous is the number of people here acting like remembering a horses name is too much to ask. Same fuckers can recite 400 pages of brony erotica from memory.
A video game genre characterized by an rng system to acquire many things, these things can range from (in most games): characters, weapons and other gear, etc.
I think the word comes from these japanese things called "gachapon" where you insert a coin and turn the knob to obtain a random little figurine
"A gacha game (Japanese: ガチャゲーム, Hepburn: gacha gēmu) is a game, typically a video game, that implements the gachapon machine style mechanics. Similar to loot boxes, live service gacha games entice players to spend in-game currency to receive a random in-game item."
Yeah, that’s a different book. Adventures of Don Quixote it’s called. Anon said Don Quixote, which is 1000+ pages. The abridged version is titled differently.
I can finish a 300 page book in about 10 hours and I read like 4 a year. If they are really into literally I would say it is not a stretch that they could read it in 2 days
there's no fucking way this guy read the whole book in two days. i just finished it for the first time a few days ago, after starting it at the beginning of last semester. and that was an ABRIDGED version.
Trick questions like that made school a little more tolerable. My JROTC unit's senior aerospace science instructor once asked a cadet what color George Washington's white horse was. She took a solid two minutes to say brown. Good thing he didn't ask who's buried in Grant's tomb. Some teachers, like OP's, just want to watch the world burn. Others, like mine, can sniff out the less capable students and entertain the class.
Literally how I felt getting a mental block during an exam question that would have let me pass the class, an answer I got the moment I stood up after time was over.
In elementary school, I was a pretty good reader, so when we read books during class, I'd often read ahead of the kids reading out loud. This one time, I was actually keeping up with the class when the teacher told me it was my turn and said something along the lines of "page 43, second paragraph, third sentence" - I assumed she wanted to skip a few lines or something, so I panicked and started counting paragraphs. She let out a disappointed sigh and then told someone else to start reading. It was exactly where the kid before me stopped. Had she just told me to keep going, I'd have had it right. Still haunts me to this day.
the_capibarin@reddit
Obviously fake, but asking one random name as a way of checking whether a student has read the book is insanity
Regular-Cup9528@reddit
It’s one of the two other main characters in the book. The question basically checks if you read the first chapter.
Lazy-Conference-1560@reddit
The ammount of times i genuinely forget a main character name is bizarre
rycerzDog@reddit
Brains just do that. I mean, shit, you can sometimes even forget common words for a bit.
iamverynormal@reddit
It’s like reading Batman and forgetting who Robin is
Zelcki@reddit
more like, reading Batman for the first time ever and have never been exposed to it in any way
windowpuncher@reddit
More like reading Batman and Robin and forgetting who Robin is
mergelong@reddit
No, that would be more like reading Don Quixote and forgetting who Don was
Zelcki@reddit
More like Don Quixote reading Batman and forgetting who the horse is
TWK128@reddit
Or Alfred.
gamehenge_survivor@reddit
This sub has read about 4 books total. Three were scratch and sniff.
BipolarMadness@reddit
Not really.
Its more like reading a Batman series and being asked "so which Robin this was" and you just freeze because you cant remember if it is Dick, Jason, or Tim, you just know there is a Robin, so they go "Ah, you never read it!"
elmandamanda8@reddit
It's more like reading Batman and forgetting who the batmobile is (his vehicle, his horse). Robin would be Sancho.
LonnyLich@reddit
Robin is a more common word in the English lexicon than Rocinante. Also Robin is a much more popular character in Pop Culture than Don's horse.
VPackardPersuadedMe@reddit
They have some sinilarities, both clearly get ridden by the protaganist.
Dekunt@reddit
Depends on the comic run or the year of release. There’s like 5 robins.
Res_Novae17@reddit
On very rare occasions I still forget my wife's name for a moment. It's one of those Alice/Alicia/Alison type names that has a bunch of variants.
windowpuncher@reddit
I forgot the word "adjacent" the other day.
I seriously got so mad at forgetting this fucking word I just milled on it for like two hours until I remembered, that's how hard I forgot it.
bisky12@reddit
this is true. the amount of times i’ve forgotten the names of friends after not seeing them for a few months. not ultra close friends, but people i had known for well over a year
Assblaster_69z@reddit
i once forgot the name of a friend that i not only saw everyday in class but hanged out with him for 4 years
QweenOfTheCrops@reddit
3 main characters. Don’t disrespect my boy Sancho Panza
Regular-Cup9528@reddit
Two other, I meant to imply that outside of Don Quixote after whom the book is named there are two more main characters.
lovethecomm@reddit
Bro I finished watching Fallout and I forgot the name of the black guy and the girl for a couple of minutes.
mogley1992@reddit
Haven't read Don Quixote myself, but that being the case, I'm guessing OOP just read too quickly and didn't really take it in that well.
I ADHD out while reading sometimes and if i read half a book in a day, there's a good chance I've missed some important stuff and will need to go back to understand things happening in the end.
Though names always get me, I'm on a Terry Pratchett thing at the moment and i find fantasy names insanely difficult to remember.
SpamFriedMice@reddit
I speed read and often times only remember the first letters of the main character's names.
This "test" wouldn't prove shit on me
minepose98@reddit
If you're not absorbing the information you're not reading, you're just looking at the pages.
aVarangian@reddit
if I'm tired I can end up reading without actually reading and then have to backtrack a page or two lol
sebastianinspace@reddit
that’s not speed reading, that’s called skimming.
Teknicsrx7@reddit
It would prove you didn’t absorb actual details of what you read
planetrebellion@reddit
Kafka must be great for you
the_capibarin@reddit
It's also a bit of a strage word that has no meaning, and thus easily forgotten. Not really relevant to the content of the book either, may as well have been called Buttons for all I care.
Surely, a follow-up question about the actual meat of the book would have helped
thoughtlow@reddit
I just read it 3 times and already forgot it.
I_am_lying_for_money@reddit
It does have a meaning. It means “strong” in spanish. Its supposed to reinforce the craziness of Quijote, since his horse is, in fact, very skinny and weak.
werty_reboot@reddit
It doesn't mean "strong". "Rocín" means "nag/work horse" (as opposed to war horse) and "antes" means "before" (here like "before and first of".
Cervantes himself explains the meaning:
EN
"Four days passed as he tried to imagine what name he would give him... and so, after many names that he formed, erased, and removed, added, undid, and made again in his memory and imagination, he finally decided to call him Rocinante, a name that seemed to him lofty, sonorous, and significant of what he had been when he was a 'nag, before' what he was now, which was before and first of all the nags in the world" (that is, "skin and bones"), but which Don Quixote still saw as "a better mount than the famous Babieca of the Cid and Bucephalus of Alexander the Great."
ES
«Cuatro días se le pasaron en imaginar que nombre le pondría... y así después de muchos nombres que formó borró y quitó, añadió, deshizo y tornó a hacer en su memoria e imaginación, al fin le vino a llamar Rocinante, nombre a su parecer alto, sonoro y significativo de lo que había sido cuando fue “rocín, antes” de lo que ahora era, que era antes y primero de todos los rocines del mundo» (es decir «piel y huesos»), pero al que Don Quijote aún seguía viendo como «mejor montura que los famosos Babieca del Cid y Bucéfalo de Alejandro Magno».
I_am_lying_for_money@reddit
Ah, alright, when I read it I was told it just meant strong, ill change my original comment.
werty_reboot@reddit
No problem, I can't count the times I learned something from a random comment.
the_capibarin@reddit
I meant has no meaning in English, as in "a foreign word"
sebastianinspace@reddit
lol how embarrassing for the commenter above you. they probably haven’t even read the book haha
I_am_lying_for_money@reddit
To be fair, its not exactly a common word, even in spanish. A normal reader would not think much more of it. Although a bit of extra analysis would tell you that its supposed to be a honourable sounding name.
TheMadManiac@reddit
Lol it does have a meaning, have you read it?
SpaceBug176@reddit
Right, except humans are more complicated than that. If you did such test to me, you'd think I'm retarded, when in reality I just have short term memory loss. I literally don't remember what I read 20 seconds ago.
I_am_lying_for_money@reddit
Personally speaking, there a dozens of books I could talk about in great detail extensively, including the overall narrative, themes, setting, and yet I could not tell you the main character’s name
driku12@reddit
If anon read the whole book in two days, it's likely they were speed reading. Going very fast, absorbing the text, but not as deeply as you would if you took longer to read the book. It's a genuine tactic for reading faster, to sort of skim the lines and let your brain fill in the blanks of the text. It's how a lot of voracious readers just pound out multiple 200-400 page books a week. OP could have very well read the whole book, loved it, but never spent enough time really absorbing it to commit any one character's name to memory on command.
sancredo@reddit
I mean, it's Don Quijote's horse. It's like asking what Harry Potter's ginger friend's name is.
Douch3nko13@reddit
Ron is a ginger?
sancredo@reddit
Don't tell HBO
Alasseing@reddit
No its not?
richtofin819@reddit
It honestly reminds me of the fake ADHD test from South Park.
They do something like stick a bunch of kids in a room and read them war and Peace and then ask a completely random question about some random part of the book.
If the kids didn't know the answer they had ADHD because they couldn't pay attention and had to take Ritalin.
Absolutemehguy@reddit
It's The Great Gatsby actually.
bitt3n@reddit
this isn't quite asking what the name of the whale is in Moby Dick, but it's close
dance_rattle_shake@reddit
The horse is a main character
Commercial_Shine_448@reddit
Basically how my literature teacher at the uni checked whether we read the book or not. One question about some insane detail.
I still remember some of them.
Darwin_Finch@reddit
The South Park episode about Ritalin has a joke about this.
Desert_Aficionado@reddit
I read half of Don Quixote 20+ years ago and I still remember the horses name.
MenitoBussolini@reddit
I had a horrible literature class in college where we read like two thirds of Hamlet (we didn't even have time to finish it) and then the tests were just random unattributed lines from the play asking who said it and for the context. Absolute dogshit methodology
Correct_Inside1658@reddit
If this is real, it’s a bad teaching moment. Better teaching moment would have been, “No worries Anon, everyone blanks sometimes, let’s try a different question!”
StandardN02b@reddit
Fake: Anon reads a 1500 page book in 2 days.
Gay: Anon still dreams with his male teacher.
Uncle_Raven@reddit
Idk I remember reading a 500 page book that I took in the 8:30 and finished reading in like 15:00. It depends on how fast do you read and how good you are at not being distracted.
And also being somewhere on a spectrum idk.
FN__FAL@reddit (OP)
School versions are usually shorter.
Lol3droflxp@reddit
Then you didn’t read it but you read a summary lol.
CardAble6193@reddit
oh god I fucking hate revision translations without disclose
--n-@reddit
No we definitely read real actual books for school...
-KoDDeX-@reddit
I read abridged versions of Shakespeare, it’s common
Sierra-117-@reddit
Really? We had to suffer through so many full versions. We even had to fully memorize a scene from Romeo and Juliet, and then perform it in front of the class (mind you this was AP lit, not theatre)
Don’t get me wrong, Shakespeare is considered one of the best writers to ever live for a reason. I do enjoy his work. But god damn can it be a drag to get through, especially in highschool.
Daysleeper1234@reddit
Where?
Georgejeff@reddit
USA probably
throwaway556x4@reddit
I’m sorry to break it to you, but if you can’t read around 750 pages within 16 hours, twice, you’re an idiot.
Office_Zombie@reddit
...or just a slow reader.
I have to use spreeder for my reading. Without it, I'm probably clocking 150wpm, with it I can maintain 500-550wpm for casual and 350-450 for peer reviewed papers; with full comprehension and recall.
1000wpm is possible, but I can only get the gist of what I'm reading and can't do it very long.
Substantial_Bet_1007@reddit
when i starting to read metro trilogy i liked it so much and reading was the only thing i ddi in middleschool i finished the whoel trilogy in 3 days in school
slaydawgjim@reddit
I've managed a few 600+ page sittings whilst working night shifts.
When there is nothing else to distract you, reading is easy as fuck.
Rogue-Squadron@reddit
The horse’s name was Friday
Legal_Direction8740@reddit
Meanwhile ADHD peeps have to read the the first chapter 8 times in a row because we realize we didn’t retain anything
Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit
for me audiobooks helped the most
Legal_Direction8740@reddit
Same but I can’t do it while driving
bradberryprankh3h3@reddit
This attitude is probably my least favorite consequence of progress.
Letters_to_Dionysus@reddit
the fuck are you talking about
salesman71@reddit
Wdym? I thought the comment was pretty accurate
Legal_Direction8740@reddit
Who knows? Been struggling with it my whole life
Sierra-117-@reddit
I either can’t retain anything, or I hyperfixate and the entire world is dead to me. There is no in between.
--n-@reddit
Speak for yourself.
Legal_Direction8740@reddit
I am
--n-@reddit
You should.
But nah, you were talking about ADHD peeps in general terms. Hence the plural pronoun.
Legal_Direction8740@reddit
…yea? Reading without retaining any information on the page is a very common issue for ADD people
seaneihm@reddit
Tbh this is me when it comes to character names though. Book or movie, I can't ever remember names specifically, and it makes people question whether I've actually read the book or not.
"Yeah I liked Lord of the Flies. It was crazy when that one kid was elected leader, but later they kill that one kid and that other kid gets hunted".
Altruistic-Local-541@reddit
I have read it recently and all I could remember is that it was something with R
Dd_8630@reddit
I've never read the book. Is the name of the horse really obvious, like 'Hedwig' is for Harry Potter's owl, or is it really niche and never mentioned, like Neville Longbottom's pet frog >!Trevor< ?
gamehenge_survivor@reddit
The horse is literally the second most referenced character in the book. Forgetting the name could be excused, we all draw a blank from time to time. What is ridiculous is the number of people here acting like remembering a horses name is too much to ask. Same fuckers can recite 400 pages of brony erotica from memory.
EtchedKetchum@reddit
I'm so sorry to be that person, but Neville has a toad.
minepose98@reddit
It's more obvious than Hedwig.
Dd_8630@reddit
Oh my.
KalyterosAioni@reddit
It's practically as prominent as Ron being a Weasley.
RadioRoosterTony@reddit
Trick question: it wasn't a horse; it was a Don Qui.
BobDaRula@reddit
They made a book about a store in japan?
Then_Interaction4915@reddit
pirouy@reddit
Limbus fans :
Zaviolli@reddit
"i have come up with a post most ingenious"
Dd_8630@reddit
The fuck is Limbus
Frontier_animation@reddit
Gacha game that somehow got peak storytelling
Dd_8630@reddit
The fuck is gatcha
Da_Randomest_Name@reddit
A video game genre characterized by an rng system to acquire many things, these things can range from (in most games): characters, weapons and other gear, etc.
I think the word comes from these japanese things called "gachapon" where you insert a coin and turn the knob to obtain a random little figurine
KritiCow@reddit
RPGs with lootbox mechanics. Which means there's a spectrum from pure slop to peak storytelling like regular RPGs.
Girdon_Freeman@reddit
From Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia,
"A gacha game (Japanese: ガチャゲーム, Hepburn: gacha gēmu) is a game, typically a video game, that implements the gachapon machine style mechanics. Similar to loot boxes, live service gacha games entice players to spend in-game currency to receive a random in-game item."
It's essentially gambling with Stockholm syndrome
13ActuallyCommit60@reddit
…..explain please
Regular-Cup9528@reddit
This adorable goober.
Swailwort@reddit
Don Quixote is a character in Limbus, her boots are named Rocinante.
The1stSkyWalker@reddit
Look up Don Quixote Limbus Company
hairyballsinmybutt@reddit
2 days? Isn't it like a thousand pages long?
dedmew51c@reddit
The elementary school version I read was 100 pages.
mattydeee@reddit
Did it have pictures?
dedmew51c@reddit
Many. It was this version
drak0ni@reddit
Yeah, that’s a different book. Adventures of Don Quixote it’s called. Anon said Don Quixote, which is 1000+ pages. The abridged version is titled differently.
dedmew51c@reddit
Adventures of Don Quixite has the name of the house in it. Both work.
dance_rattle_shake@reddit
Yes, and most translations are not easy to read. Kind of Shakespeareian
sillycritersenjoyer@reddit
I can finish a 300 page book in about 10 hours and I read like 4 a year. If they are really into literally I would say it is not a stretch that they could read it in 2 days
hairyballsinmybutt@reddit
I can read about 1.5 pages a minute so 90 an hour, but I have to lock in.
DahDollar@reddit
Rocinante
cappsy04@reddit
bullmooser1912@reddit
ThatFuckingGeniusKid@reddit
MessyGuy01@reddit
hornwalker@reddit
spali@reddit
Madame secretary where are you going with this?
KacerRex@reddit
Wherever the fuck I want to.
SKruizer@reddit
oh so thats why doflamingos brother is called rosinante
Communist_Ravioli@reddit
On my ship, the Rocinante,
Wheeling through the galaxies
Headed for the heart of Cygnus
Headlong into mystery
Kleiner_garten@reddit
There never was a horse
The-Only-Razor@reddit
The cane from Citizen Kane.
LemonFlavoredMelon@reddit
This guy reads
onarainyafternoon@reddit
Rockhard
softmetal@reddit
Que?
EuenovAyabayya@reddit
This is like asking someone to remember the name of the fox in Fellowship of the Ring.
retden@reddit
No, it's like forgetting the name of Pippin.
EuenovAyabayya@reddit
See, even you can't recall that his name is Peregrine!
emdave@reddit
That's his Government name - no one uses that!!
rayz0101@reddit
Just tell him some other obscure part of the book.
No-Expression-7765@reddit
Its the guy from one piece
LuckyLynx_@reddit
there's no fucking way this guy read the whole book in two days. i just finished it for the first time a few days ago, after starting it at the beginning of last semester. and that was an ABRIDGED version.
typewriter45@reddit
GALLOP ON, ROCINANTE, JUSTICE SHALL PREVAIL!
junkstabber@reddit
In 2 days? I call shenanigans.
Other_Acct_is_Banned@reddit
Trick questions like that made school a little more tolerable. My JROTC unit's senior aerospace science instructor once asked a cadet what color George Washington's white horse was. She took a solid two minutes to say brown. Good thing he didn't ask who's buried in Grant's tomb. Some teachers, like OP's, just want to watch the world burn. Others, like mine, can sniff out the less capable students and entertain the class.
FireDevil11@reddit
Literally how I felt getting a mental block during an exam question that would have let me pass the class, an answer I got the moment I stood up after time was over.
TheyCallMeAva@reddit
Dong Quixote
WHCW11@reddit
In elementary school, I was a pretty good reader, so when we read books during class, I'd often read ahead of the kids reading out loud. This one time, I was actually keeping up with the class when the teacher told me it was my turn and said something along the lines of "page 43, second paragraph, third sentence" - I assumed she wanted to skip a few lines or something, so I panicked and started counting paragraphs. She let out a disappointed sigh and then told someone else to start reading. It was exactly where the kid before me stopped. Had she just told me to keep going, I'd have had it right. Still haunts me to this day.
Blacksteel733@reddit
Ozymandias_1303@reddit
It's Roccinante. I know this from reading some of the Expanse books.
Desert_Aficionado@reddit
Read it in 2 days? The book is very long, unless he read the abridged version.
dedmew51c@reddit
Or this version
Raleth@reddit
Speed reader moment