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A review by margaretann84
Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
1.0
Worst. Book. Ever.
Okay, maybe not the worst, but a really boring, awful book. The actual story of Hans could be told in about fifty pages. The edition I read on Google Books was nearly three hundred pages long. I can appreciate it for the historical things--I've read enough books from this time period to know that the personalities of the Brinker children and some of the other boys are how the authors imagined children, and the "history of Holland" asides are in there to educate small children back in the day--but the book was much too long and drawn-out to actually be entertaining, especially for a modern reader. I wouldn't recommend this at all.
1/5 on here, 1/10 for myself
Okay, maybe not the worst, but a really boring, awful book. The actual story of Hans could be told in about fifty pages. The edition I read on Google Books was nearly three hundred pages long. I can appreciate it for the historical things--I've read enough books from this time period to know that the personalities of the Brinker children and some of the other boys are how the authors imagined children, and the "history of Holland" asides are in there to educate small children back in the day--but the book was much too long and drawn-out to actually be entertaining, especially for a modern reader. I wouldn't recommend this at all.
1/5 on here, 1/10 for myself