A review by cubanpete
Tales from the Thousand and One Nights by Unknown

When she handed it to me, I lifted the cup to my lips, but instead of drinking, poured it hastily into the folds of my garments.

The Thousand And One Nights had been my long-standing favourite, maybe because I hadn't re-read it for some years. A correction is needed! Perhaps I was so in love with its exotic setting and crazy magical stuff that I somehow missed out on the rest. This time I found out that most characters are veritable morons, who make incomprehensibly bad decisions, and gender relations are at an all-time low. What a disappointment. At least I still enjoyed my favourite story where

a wall opens up, a woman comes out and has a conversation with fish that are frying in the frying pan

. When it comes to other characters in these tales, they deserve everything they got.