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A review by searoomba
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Jack D. Zipes, Johnny Gruelle
2.0
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.