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A review by penwiper
The Canterbury Tales by SparkNotes
3.0
Done at last. Lots of weird stories in this book. The knight's tale at the beginning is the longest and arguably the most boring of the lot, but that's coming off rewatching a Colosseum tournament in a show that lasted over fifty twenty minute episodes, so I was already done with mock battles. :-) That said, my goodness, Chaucer doesn't pull his punches in some places, especially with the Pardoner's Tale. Having just been studying Martin Luther for the past couple of months in Protestant church history I found it even more interesting. The Miller's tale was also weird and strange as promised.
The ending of this version is quite abrupt, and I'm sure that's deliberately done since the story was never finished.
The modern version of this is not translated word for word, it's more loosely based than that. I'd say the modern version is similar to The Message vs King James, but it helped me figure out what the heck was going on in some passages and gave some clues to some of the more mystifying bits. I like Shakespeare. I can read KJV. Chaucer is much harder to grok without a bit of help.
Well, I can say I read Canterbury Tales now.
The ending of this version is quite abrupt, and I'm sure that's deliberately done since the story was never finished.
The modern version of this is not translated word for word, it's more loosely based than that. I'd say the modern version is similar to The Message vs King James, but it helped me figure out what the heck was going on in some passages and gave some clues to some of the more mystifying bits. I like Shakespeare. I can read KJV. Chaucer is much harder to grok without a bit of help.
Well, I can say I read Canterbury Tales now.