Kevin's review
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
I'm actually listening to this on CD and it has been "translated" from it's original "Old English" to a bit more modern English. And I must say, I am grateful that it has been, they provided a snippet of what it might have actually originally sounded like and I could barely understand a single word! It was amazing!
I couldn't finish this. Perhaps it's the translation. Perhaps they didn't translate it enough. Perhaps it's just the content. But I just didn't care for these stories.
The first one about two knights in prison fighting over the love of a girl that doesn't know they exist (and from the timing of story, it appear that they fell in love with this girl when she was 7 or 8 years old! And they're grown men!) And then when they get out of prison they continue to fight about it, then the king gets involved, then the gods get involved. I had a hard time identifying with any of these characters.
The next was riske and strange and so was the one a...more
I couldn't finish this. Perhaps it's the translation. Perhaps they didn't translate it enough. Perhaps it's just the content. But I just didn't care for these stories.
The first one about two knights in prison fighting over the love of a girl that doesn't know they exist (and from the timing of story, it appear that they fell in love with this girl when she was 7 or 8 years old! And they're grown men!) And then when they get out of prison they continue to fight about it, then the king gets involved, then the gods get involved. I had a hard time identifying with any of these characters.
The next was riske and strange and so was the one a...more
