Over 400 years old, nearly a thousand pages long in my Penguin translation, how many people still read this classic? And yet, in the midst of the arcane references, there is a 'buddy' story here that feels so fresh and modern I could at times have been reading dialogue between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Try it, if only for the zing between Quixote and the exquisite Sancho. ( )