As with any collection of stories, I found myself very engaged with some and dragging myself through some others. I really appreciated Pyle's voice and loved what he did with these tales. So many of the characteristics and virtues of this era are somewhat foreign to us now, but can yet inspire chivalry and courtliness and true affection to this day. I also found it really neat to finally read some King Arthur myths and it was easy to see how language, custom, and these ideas permeated into works by Tolkien and others. Overall, not my most "fun" read, but I learned a lot and would absolutely read these to my son.