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Summary: From a middle school kid's point of view
Review: For a middle school kid I thought that The Chanterbury Tales wasn't that great of a book. The complex language and all the boring discussions made the book really dull. Some of the stories were far better then others. Happy Reading
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Summary: Wait long enough and anything becomes a "classic"
Review: Here is the lesson to be learned: write a few dirty stories, wait a few hundred years and everyone will say you are a genius and that what you wrote is classic. Really, there is nothing in Chaucer that I don't hear in any locker room of any local gym. Why is this stuff taught in classrooms? Because tenured professors think if it is written in middle english it must be some revelation into life. The same could be said of any anecdote told by any average joe, if only they would take it just as seriously.
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Summary: The root
Review: The Modern Library's Middle English edition of this book will let you enjoy the book as it was intended to be read. Any literate reader with passably good guessing skills will be able to understand most of it; the glossary in the back is incomplete but still helpful.The cadence and language will impress upon you how much this collection of poems defined, and continues to define, English language poetry. Anyone seriously interested in art should read this, and the Modern Library's edition is well worth every penny.
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Summary: better than Decameron
Review: To acknowledge the mastery of Chaucer you 've got to read "Decameron" by Boccaccio and "The Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius.Read them and send me news on the online-review. .
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Summary: A masterpiece
Review: "Canterbury Tales" is an amazing work of art, in my opinion. Chaucer not only tells stories which match the character's personality that tells them, he also writes it so the lines rhyme throughout. The Middle English version was almost impossible for me to read, but the translation immeasurably simplies it. Also, I am in debt to the glossary in the back of the book, which helped describe most of Chaucer's references that were unknown to me. If one does not want to read all nine of the tales, I recommend the Knight's Tale and the Wife of Bath's Tale. Do yourself a favor and read this masterpiece.
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Summary: Beware of the sycophant! (this and other caveats)
Review: In the Nun's Priease Tale, Chaucer utters the most startingly 4 words constructed: Beware of the sycophant! Each tale, like the latter, also contains a moral. The best book in the English language this side of Shakesphere.
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Summary: The original Gonzo journalist covers the Big Pilgrimage.
Review: G. Chaucer delivers a perceptive depiction of Old Europe in this raunchy classic. The lingo is exquisite and often NC-17. Not to be missed.
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Summary: You won't get bored often.
Review: This book is more a collection of short stories. Many of them are very funny, there was only one that I found my self getting bored with.
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Summary: A VERY IN DEPTH LOOK AT SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Review: CHAUCER EXPLORES THE DARKER SIDE OF HUMANITY IN THE CANTERBURY TALES. RELIGION IS TESTED, AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS PROVEN CORRUPT. STORIES INSIDE STORIES ARE IMAGINITIVE AND FUNNY.
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Summary: Tis wonderful for those of all ages
Review: Its a simply marvolous book to read to yourself or to your children. The enchanting stories stay in your memory.
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