camilacadibe's review against another edition
4.0
Well.
This book was exactly what I expected it to be.
Was it racist and sexist and disgusting in a lot of ways? Yes. But I tried to mentally prepare myself for that before going in, since those stories were told by all kind of people, no one knows how long ago.
I found out (by the narrator telling me) that the Grimm brothers did NOT write any of those stories. They were not writers, but collectors of tales, which I find SO interesting.
This book has the original tales. The gory, unrefined, weird and old tales. And It was as horrible and awesome as I hoped it would be.
There were so many times I went "dude what the fuck". And it happened for many reasons. There were times I actually did not comprehend what the hell was going on. There were times something so disgusting happened I could not believe any of this was ever told to children. There were times things were so unbelievable, made so little sense, that I couldn't deal. It was just... The weirdest book.
But even though it made no sense, I learned a lot from the story. I learned that kings have lots of weird ass ways to decide their Heir, that princesses are almost always gonna be under some spell/curse/enchantment, that it's okay for you to do/say/be any number of awful things, as long as you're handsome/beautiful, that maidens are all naive idiots who'll do anything to marry a prince, that if you want to find a prince all you have to do is wonder into some wood and kiss/kill some talking animal, that mothers and fathers and sons and daughters and brothers and sisters can be either some real fucking assholes or such loyal bitches even Percy Jackson couldn't compare... yeah, I learned a lot.
No but seriously, this was so weird and fucked up and gory and wrong, I loved it.
Totally worth the credit spent on Audible, no regrets!
This book was exactly what I expected it to be.
Was it racist and sexist and disgusting in a lot of ways? Yes. But I tried to mentally prepare myself for that before going in, since those stories were told by all kind of people, no one knows how long ago.
I found out (by the narrator telling me) that the Grimm brothers did NOT write any of those stories. They were not writers, but collectors of tales, which I find SO interesting.
This book has the original tales. The gory, unrefined, weird and old tales. And It was as horrible and awesome as I hoped it would be.
There were so many times I went "dude what the fuck". And it happened for many reasons. There were times I actually did not comprehend what the hell was going on. There were times something so disgusting happened I could not believe any of this was ever told to children. There were times things were so unbelievable, made so little sense, that I couldn't deal. It was just... The weirdest book.
But even though it made no sense, I learned a lot from the story. I learned that kings have lots of weird ass ways to decide their Heir, that princesses are almost always gonna be under some spell/curse/enchantment, that it's okay for you to do/say/be any number of awful things, as long as you're handsome/beautiful, that maidens are all naive idiots who'll do anything to marry a prince, that if you want to find a prince all you have to do is wonder into some wood and kiss/kill some talking animal, that mothers and fathers and sons and daughters and brothers and sisters can be either some real fucking assholes or such loyal bitches even Percy Jackson couldn't compare... yeah, I learned a lot.
No but seriously, this was so weird and fucked up and gory and wrong, I loved it.
Totally worth the credit spent on Audible, no regrets!
philosofer's review against another edition
adventurous
inspiring
lighthearted
mysterious
relaxing
medium-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
susycssl's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
dev921's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, Abandonment, Confinement, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Grief, and Kidnapping
joe2d2's review against another edition
5.0
the first printing of these tales - before they were scrubbed up and sanitized for children and christian morals. fascinating to see the echoes of ovid, mahabharata, and the 1001 nights in these german tales preserved through oral tradition.
ohhgoddd07's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A
5.0
queenkoko's review against another edition
2.0
I am honestly stuck on what I want to rate this, obviously there is no half star option but I am torn between giving this 2 stars, and 1.5 stars. Anyway, I wanted to give up by the end of February because I was kind of over this series. Some of the stories are just repetitive. So from March - June I would read a few pages here and there while doing my hair, but by July I wanted to get this book off of my "currently reading" list. Anyway, here is what I took from this series:
- Girls are stupid, girls are vain, girls can walk on a fruit or a vegetable without squishing it thus proving they are girls, and finally girls should marry men old enough to be their parent.
- Incest is okay between a father and daughter.
- A Dwarf is always magical, be nice to them.
- Animals sometimes aren't just animals, they could be magical, or even royalty.
- Witches are always old mean women.
- You must do whatever your parents tell you because they know everything.
- Don't wish for something out loud because there is a 99% chance it will happen.
- Kidnapping a child is okay if a child is bad.
- Oh, and you die in the end... a good portion of the time.
One star taken off for repetitiveness, one star taken off for having women look stupid a majority of the time, and one star taken off for the way they portray incest. I really want to take off .5 stars for just being annoyed with it, but I don’t think that would be fair. But hey, I am just glad I finished reading this.
- Girls are stupid, girls are vain, girls can walk on a fruit or a vegetable without squishing it thus proving they are girls, and finally girls should marry men old enough to be their parent.
- Incest is okay between a father and daughter.
- A Dwarf is always magical, be nice to them.
- Animals sometimes aren't just animals, they could be magical, or even royalty.
- Witches are always old mean women.
- You must do whatever your parents tell you because they know everything.
- Don't wish for something out loud because there is a 99% chance it will happen.
- Kidnapping a child is okay if a child is bad.
- Oh, and you die in the end... a good portion of the time.
One star taken off for repetitiveness, one star taken off for having women look stupid a majority of the time, and one star taken off for the way they portray incest. I really want to take off .5 stars for just being annoyed with it, but I don’t think that would be fair. But hey, I am just glad I finished reading this.
nazia_ahmed's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
3.0