The prologue to the Canterbury tales

I'd say it's more like 3.5 stars, but we round up in my family.

Some great stuff and some duds, and that's perfectly fine. When I was really in the mood for this book, even a dud story didn't bother me because the feeling of the rhymes carried me along; it was almost like listening to music in a foreign language, pleasant for the sounds if not the content. The great stuff was a treat no matter my mood, and at times I actually gasped aloud in shock and delight at the raunchiness.

I also read this for my English class. Although I didn't read every tale, the ones I read were actually pretty good. Some of the tales I could see the ending coming, ie The Pardoner's Tale. It's still one of my favorite though, including the tale the Wife of Bath told.

I had to read and analyze this for school, so I wasn't too thrilled about that... However, I loved the Knight's Tale, and I thought the Miller's Tale was hilarious. Great collection of stories overall!

Interesting idea of stories from a band of pilgrims but it got old fast.

True story— I read this book my senior year as it was assigned by my English teacher. This was the third book we had read in the class. After reading this one, I walked away thinking my teacher was obsessed with sex and holy crap did my Catholic high school board know we were reading about folks getting it on high up on a branch of a tree. Yep... those were the good old days.