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Grimms Fairy Tales: A Selection
by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Sometimes, you just have to hand it to people based on sheer innovation alone.
For example, the buttered popcorn jellybean may be disgusting on a level previously undiscovered by man, bringing together an unholy combination of unexpected texture and profoundly unpleasant taste in a way that should be reserved solely for punishing our society’s most reprehensible criminals, but don’t you have to acknowledge the sheer evil genius of those whimsical folks at the Jelly Belly corporation for making history?
Same goes for this book, which manages to make some of the most fantastic tales of all time straight-up boring.
This is hands down the worst and most tragic translation of the Grimm tales I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot of those glorified gentrifiers.
Where is the SPARK. Where is the FUN. Where is the OVERWROUGHT LANGUAGE and the REPETITIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF PRETTY GIRLS and the ADVENTURE.
This book sucks, but you kind of have to give it props just for managing to take something like “guy who doesn’t know what fear is gets up to hilarious hijinks in a haunted house and is handed a princess for it” or “girl highkey needs to get laid and so she accidentally discovers her husband is a bear and then it’s like oh sh*t we have to save this guy from the world’s ugliest woman”...and making it boring.
It is so unimpressive that it actually comes full circle and is impressive again.
Bottom line: Read literally any volume of fairy tales other than this one.
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the brothers grimm want what andrew lang has!!!
review to come / 2 stars
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going to be offline for a couple days. i'm trying to learn how to shudder and this king guy said if i stay in a haunted castle for three nights i can marry his daughter
For example, the buttered popcorn jellybean may be disgusting on a level previously undiscovered by man, bringing together an unholy combination of unexpected texture and profoundly unpleasant taste in a way that should be reserved solely for punishing our society’s most reprehensible criminals, but don’t you have to acknowledge the sheer evil genius of those whimsical folks at the Jelly Belly corporation for making history?
Same goes for this book, which manages to make some of the most fantastic tales of all time straight-up boring.
This is hands down the worst and most tragic translation of the Grimm tales I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot of those glorified gentrifiers.
Where is the SPARK. Where is the FUN. Where is the OVERWROUGHT LANGUAGE and the REPETITIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF PRETTY GIRLS and the ADVENTURE.
This book sucks, but you kind of have to give it props just for managing to take something like “guy who doesn’t know what fear is gets up to hilarious hijinks in a haunted house and is handed a princess for it” or “girl highkey needs to get laid and so she accidentally discovers her husband is a bear and then it’s like oh sh*t we have to save this guy from the world’s ugliest woman”...and making it boring.
It is so unimpressive that it actually comes full circle and is impressive again.
Bottom line: Read literally any volume of fairy tales other than this one.
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the brothers grimm want what andrew lang has!!!
review to come / 2 stars
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going to be offline for a couple days. i'm trying to learn how to shudder and this king guy said if i stay in a haunted castle for three nights i can marry his daughter