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    <body><![CDATA[Required in college for my English degree.  Muddled through and ended up enjoying it with the help of a great professor.  Even memorized the prologue in Middle English.  (smile)  Big points with silly  boys.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I am going to try to read Canterbury Tales in Middle English. The rhymes are so much better then the &quot;translated&quot; versions that I have read. I am thinking of Neville Coghill's, which is heady stuff or a 1902 translation I read awhile back which was, to my mind, more simple and earthy like ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46971834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[they are funny, but a little strange and sometimes scandalous haha there are only a few that i would read.. the beginning where he describes all the dif. characters is good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[YEs I read this book for Brit. Lit Class.  well you might find it boring but there are some pretty cool parts in the tales. sexually interesting, and hilarious.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious!  A must read.  If you haven't met the Wife of Bath, you haven't lived. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Canterbury Tales</em> was a great project of the Middle Ages -- it's unfortunate that Chaucer never got to complete the vast enterprise before his death.  If you have the time and patience, reading though the tales in Middle English is a special experience.  But for the time-strapped, pick up a prose...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1471290">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[We read all these tales in college and my teacher, who was a Chaucer expert, made us do oral presentations where we had to quote lines using the old english style. It was so awesome and hard to understand. It sounds like German.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have only read the prolouge and a few tales. The tales are okay. I appreciate the size of the project the author is tackling in attempting to write two tales for each traveler. Geez... well, some of the tales are pretty funny. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I forbid anyone to read these tales in modern English. Half the fun of reading them is trying to translate the Middle English. These are great earthy tales of fairies, knights, and fiery hot pokers to the rear. Good stuff.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A must read for anyone wanting to get the fullest representation of the historical development of the English language and storytelling. Sound out your pronunciations, folks!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Salacious, funny and interesting. I love the middle english. I read it for a Brit Lit class in college and really enjoyed it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This version is in middle english but it can be read without knowing the language.  I suggest reading it modern englsh]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What can I say?! I'm an English major.  Loved them ---- Chaucer was spot on for character description. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This still cracks me up.  Snarkolicious, but so few get the jokes these days.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one in Old English as well.]]></body>
    
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