No one ever told me this compilation is so humongous. The translation by Richard Francis Burton is 16 volumes in total. The first book itself is relatively large and reading all 16 is too much, so I've stopped at the first volume.

The wrap around sure be familiar to most people. In short, Shahrzade m

What I learned from this book is that pretty much all women are deceitful whores, many of them are also witches, and they should all be put to death. As you can imagine, this message grew tiresome, and eventually, I decided I'd had enough. I only made it to somewhere in the vicinity of Night 20, but

Arabian nights tales has always have a special place in my heart, for its wonderful plot and unexpected events happened through each story.

Impossibly rich,, impossibly imaginative, one of the great treasure chests of world literature. It reveals a vast, densely populated hallucinatory landscape, the hallucinations being those of 8th-11th century Islam. The earliest group of stories were strung together in the 8th century and were proba

30 nights into this colossus of a tale containing a staggering amount of layers of stories, I have taken away the following:

Women are deceitful and unfaithful by nature, and it is a reasonable thing to kill them if they are found guilty of adultery. Better make sure that they are actually guilty _be

I couldn't stop singing songs from Aladdin while reading this. I was surprised by how engaging this was. I expected to like the stories I was familiar with and not many others, which is what has happened with most fairy tales I've read. I did like reading about Aladdin, Ali Baba and Sinbad, but I th

Reading some reviews of this book you either love it or you hate it, maybe I just didn't get it. I had set out to listen to the whole collection, a huge undertaking but I figured, what the heck, they seem to be important books so I'll check them out. The stories are fine but get somewhat repetitive

Started this ages ago and just got around to finishing it. It gets pretty samey as you go through it, particularly in terms of characters. There's really not a lot of depth to them - basically you've got the good protagonist who does the right thing and is tricked, the bad protagonist who does the w

This review is over Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.
I thought the classic story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was one that was both ironic and entertaining. It was ironic to me that the house servant of Ali Baba is actually the hero of the whole story. Ali Baba just seemed to be at the right plac

Update 3: I've read 15 volumes, only 2 left. Strangely, the two most famous tales from the Nights, Aladdin and Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, are not in Richard Burton's "official canon" but are rather in the supplemental volumes, in several versions by different translators.

Update 2: I have finished