A review by appelsientjie
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

3.0

I can see it used to be really good, but as a modern person it's sometimes just annoying to read. Like, you have these great absurdistic, satirical episodes, and then suddenly it's all poop and pee jokes and misogyny. For example, I loved the part where Pantagruel meets this Parisian student who can only speak in Latinisms. That's great writing! But when it comes to farting, I'm not so impressed anymore after the 50 jokes about it.