From the Bookshelf of Never too Late to Read Classics…

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Start date: October 1, 2021

Finish date: December 31, 2021

Discussion: The Hefty Classics

Find A Copy At

Libraries

Group Discussions About This Book

Showing 2 of 4 topics — 910 comments total

The Hefty Classics

* 2025: Hefty/Husky Reading Schedule
By Piyangie , Classical Princess · 90 posts · 201 views

last updated Dec 31, 2024 06:53AM

2025: Husky: September - December: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
By Piyangie , Classical Princess · 34 posts · 30 views

last updated Sep 08, 2025 06:35AM

showing 3 of 3 topics view all »

What Members Thought

Jul 07, 2022 Sara rated it liked it

Shelves: allegory, italy, medieval, 14th-century

It took me almost a year to get through this collection of stories, doing them one at a time with spaces in between. A significant historical work, I could admire Boccaccio's writing, but many of the stories were difficult to engage with and I did not establish any feeling of connection to the storytellers who were fleeing the plague.

Glad to have read it, glad to have it behind me. It did not engage me nor entertain me as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales did, although that was what I was expecting wh ...more

37 likes · Like · see review

Aug 21, 2023 Annette rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-read, kindled-kobo, translated-to-english, catching-up-on-classics-read, 2023

Done! This book is too easily put down which I did multiple times. Probably the best advice I would give to someone thinking about reading this is to first read the Author’s Conclusion which appears at the End obviously. He states that If you have an abundance of leisure time then why not undertake this work; if not you may have better things to do :)

Like · see review