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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'd give it a weak 3/5 stars? Or perhaps a strong 2/5.
It's very interesting to see how modern fairy tales began, and how aspects of certain tales were borrowed from others. However, the repetition of the stories does start to grate on you. "Oh look, a tailor/farmer found a princess, and did an odd thing, and is now a prince, and also those people who wronged them have now died very violently."
On the whole I did enjoy reading (most of) it, but you can definitely see how the stories would be better orally, and spaced out, instead of read one after another. I could also have done without the ... veeery blatant racism.
It's very interesting to see how modern fairy tales began, and how aspects of certain tales were borrowed from others. However, the repetition of the stories does start to grate on you. "Oh look, a tailor/farmer found a princess, and did an odd thing, and is now a prince, and also those people who wronged them have now died very violently."
On the whole I did enjoy reading (most of) it, but you can definitely see how the stories would be better orally, and spaced out, instead of read one after another. I could also have done without the ... veeery blatant racism.
If it didn't have a king, a distraught stepmother/abused stepdaughter/jealous siblings, or an enchanted creature, it wasn't in these stories.
Funny to read the original version of these stories and see how it compares to the versions that we think we know so well.
Funny to read the original version of these stories and see how it compares to the versions that we think we know so well.
Loved, loved, loved this! I've always known that the fairy tales that we have today are the sanitized version. So I've always wanted to read Grimms' to find out what I was missing. Apparently quite a bit. There is a little of everything in here: revenge, anger, sadness, death, true love and happily ever after. In many of the tales you can see the basis of the tales we know today but believe me our versions are a pale imitation. Do yourself a favor and read this!
This took me back to my childhood, I almost know all those stories or parts of them
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Find an edited, annotated, and condensed edition. This work is tedious and repetitive.
Giving this a score out of five feels even more arbitrary than usual. I quite enjoyed it, so...3/5? (5/5 for cultural and folk-historical importance though, obvs).