A review by icallaci
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

3.0

I've read 600 pages out of 1,000 and I quit. All the stories are very similar, and virtually all involve "love," which apparently meant kidnapping and rape more often than not in the 1300s. And everything is solved by either coincidencidental interventions or by the woman (who has just been raped) falling in love with the rapist because he's just so good at "making love" that she decides he's the man for her and they live happily ever after. Not all the stories follow this pattern, but enough of them do that I can't keep reading the same thing over and over and over. I understand things were different back then, but I've had enough.

P.S. This review is brought to you by the same person who loved Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.