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chaibby's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
funny
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.25
ketu's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
pbobrit's review against another edition
4.0
Not going to write too much about this, as I have a couple of papers to write on it for school and fear I will be written out HOWEVER this book is great. One of the first Italian vernacular prose novels, made up of 100 novellas (10 stories narrated by 10 characters over 10 days), set and write in the days of the Black Death. This is in my opinion the humanist equivalent of Dante's Divine Comedy, but sadly it it has not been treated as such until the last 30 years. This book works on so many levels, it is great read, the stories always entertaining but infused with so much hidden meaning. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good and often bawdy tale with depth. Also given it's structure it is one you can digest slowly.
zozoisgolden's review against another edition
4.0
Wickedly funny and insightful.
Boccaccio uses humor, double entendre's and euphemisms to weave tales of love, fate, fortune, religion, hypocrisy and the shortcoming of the religious leaders of his day (he's outright brutal to them).
I would love to give this a longer review.
Boccaccio uses humor, double entendre's and euphemisms to weave tales of love, fate, fortune, religion, hypocrisy and the shortcoming of the religious leaders of his day (he's outright brutal to them).
I would love to give this a longer review.
hulttio's review against another edition
4.0
5 months and 18 days later, not to mention nearly a year into this pandemic whose massive effects I never could have anticipated, I have finally finished the entirety of The Decameron!