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I use this as a stand for my laptop for over a year, is it worth reading and putting another book under my laptop?

I will not entertain people who tell me to buy a laptop stand I have no patience for them.

>> No.22068941

>>22068820
It's funny cause I do the same with an anthology of romantic poetry (except I've read most of it)

>> No.22068958

It has some nice stories

>> No.22068982

>>22068820
Merchants, Cooks, Millers, Reeves, Friars, Franklins, Pardoners, Wife of Baths prologue

Read these because they are the only ones people actually care about and they give you an idea of the bawdy nature of the work. The rest of the tales are marginal.

>> No.22069077

>>22068820
Chaucer is sort of like if the muses were incredibly bored, and gave a fat beer belly bastard - one that livens up a pub 3 times a week, pounds down pint after pint, and has a face incredibly wrinkled from always laughing- the most sublime poetical gifts.
It's a great read, though he gets incredibly wordy in the intros to each story.

>> No.22069093

>>22068982
i dont think ive ever selectively read only parts of a book not including re-read
why would i do it with this

>> No.22069206

I have that edition too. You should buy a laptop stand so it might actually keep the laptop in place, because this book is small and fairly soft.
Anyway, no, it's not worth reading, it's a "translation" into modern English. Get the original.

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>>22069206
>You should buy a laptop stand

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>>22069215
>I want my laptop to fall over all the time because it's standing on top of a tiny squishy paperback

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>>22069224
umm noo ACKSHUALLY its balancing on chaucers canterbury tales and two full containers of dental floss it never falls over

>> No.22070136

>>22069077
One of his storytellers is literally a drunken pub worker- the cook.

>> No.22070237

>>22068820
Chaucer is considered to be the greatest middle English poet, and by some still to be the greatest poet of English literature as a whole and it is for good reason. It's hard to think of any one poet as innovative as he was, even Shakespeare stands in Chaucer's shadow. Just open it and it read it, read the first tale and decide whether you want to read the rest of it. You're holding my favorite edition, too.