ThymeOperator’s Reviews > The Canterbury Tales - Translated into Modern English: The Complete Collection - All Volumes in One > Status Update

The Tale of Canon's Yeoman - yawn

The Second Nun's Tale - YAAAAWWWWWWWN

The Nun Priest's Tale - interesting

The Monk's Tale - pointless, not even a tale

The Tale of Sir Thopas - amusing if you've read the kinds of things it's satirising - the interruption is even funnier

The Tale of Melibee - absolutely insane, albeit amusing for it, especially the reaction to it in The Monk's Tale Prologue

The Shipman's Tale - crazy

The Prioress's Tale - easily the worst story in the book so far, totally racist and up itself

The Physician's Tale - oh my actual god

The Pardoner's Tale - moralising aside, the twist end to this one made me laugh

Franklin's Tale - this was pretty twisted.

Also, it staggers me that anyone believes the myth that people used to think the Earth was flat when not only is there an abundance of documents charting complex astronomy and astrology going back 5,000 years, but this story refers to the planets as spheres and outright says the world is round, a century before Columbus.

The Squire's Tale - some good lines in this, but where's the rest of the story?? Typing issue, or Chaucer never finished it?

Okay, he never finished it. Interesting take on it in this article: https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/02...

The Merchant's Tale - insane

There was a huge typeset error, too, where about 10 pages suddenly repeated themselves