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| The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales | | by Lily Owens, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Jacob W. Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm | | Gramercy |  | | | | List Price: | $14.99 | | Our Price: | $14.99 | | You Save: | $0.00 | | | Release Date: | May, 1993 | | Media: | Hardcover | | ISBN: | 051709293X | | | Availability: | Usually ships within 24 hours | | Average Review: |  Based on 8 reviews. |
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| | | Average Customer Review: Based on 8 reviews. | |  The Real Stories.
These stories are a must read for all children. They are magical and intelligent, as well as, harsh and dark. However, if read over a reasonable period and with adult guidance, these stories provide invaluable life lessons that are more and more absent from our modern popular and mass market stories. | |  Sure To Make Children Cringe At Bedtime! - Unpleasant!
This collection of "classics" certainly is a departure from the Disney versions. As a native German with recollection of "The Grimm Brother's magic story telling", I do not remember traditional storytime this GRIMM. - The tales are mostly very dark and pessimistic. Somehow the center of each story is some poor person's affliction, either with extreme poverty, a physical or mental handicap or some other "evil" thing that sets them apart form society's norm. The writing style exhibited here is sophomoric; at times the reader feels asthough a 15 year old "slapped" these stories together for a boring class project (in which case I would grade this work a C-). Much of the plot seems absurd and far fetched, often leading to an utterly unsatisfactory conclusion. There are very few "gems" amidst this mish mash of oscure garble. If THIS is classic German (or any other kind of) story telling, I would suggest a quick switch to the Cartoon Channel instead of reading this drivel to any more generations of unsuspecting kids who simply deserve MUCH better. Put this one back on the shelf and forget it!** | |  OKAY STORIES, OKAY COPY
Not all the stories in this book are winners, and you can take a LONG time reading all of them. For the longest time I'd been hearing that Disney's version of these Grimm classics are much cleaner. No kidding. But being a hardcore fantasy reader, I like all the violence and dark senses of humor that the Grimm brothers have. Generally, for every 10 stories you read, you might find two that you like and one that you REALLY like. As for the actual book, the pages are apparently NOT acid-free, which means that it was cheaply made. It is still hardback, though. I'm not a HUGE Grimm fan, but there were enough illustrations for my taste. Along the same lines, I don't care if the works are out of order--what matters is that they're translated decently. I still hold that there is--somewhere--a better Grimm's book to be found--hence the 3 stars. Apart from all that, this is a good bargain bin book--which is where I found it. My favorite stories--so far--are The Frog Prince, Cinderella, The Three White Snakes, and The Youth Who Could Not Shiver and Shake. |
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