[Sethomas]

I started reading, on a whim, an online text of Gawain and the Green Knight. Even though contemporaneous to Chaucer, I found it hard to translate (being in a vastly different dialect of Middle English) but the meter is beautiful. The whole style of story-telling, I just love it. The stories are good in themselves, but the presentation is everything. I could never tolerate reading The Once and Future King because I just failed to see the point. I don't care if it's a modern classic, it sucked.