A review by hank
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

4.0

Fabulous in pieces. I spent 5 months reading these stories a bit a a time, some to my kids, some just to myself. I think trying to read this start to finish would be tedious. I truly enjoyed most of the stories, weird, violent, cruel, moralistic and sappy. I half knew these were the basis for many Disney stories but didn't quite realize how many, sometimes the originals were better, sometimes, honestly the Disney adaptations were better. I read a few in the original German but since I don't speak German all that well that was a challenge. I would recommend everyone (ok maybe not everyone) get a copy of this book to pick up and read for short periods.