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egajdosik's review against another edition
5.0
I just love Washington Irving's writing. I'm grateful to him for providing the United States with it's own folklore and fairytales.
annatheavid's review against another edition
I really enjoyed Washington Irving's writing style! I generally enjoy works from around this period because they are so eloquent and melodic without simply being verbose for the sake of being verbose. I actually read a horror story!! lol And there is a horror story that isn't a horror story!! Can it get better than that? And you come away finally knowing the story of Rip Van Winkle! Overall for me a very enjoyable read.
bwilhoite8's review against another edition
2.0
Wasn't a fan of the authors writing and too much detail.
carolsnotebook's review against another edition
4.0
My favorite part of this version is the illustrations by Gerry Embleton. There are so many little details in the picture - gnomes and elves in the clearing with the strange men, a wizard watching over Rip on his way home and a little gopher delivering bottles of milk to mushroom homes. Even thought the war is left out of the story, we do see a man in uniform listening to Rip's tale. Even the clothes the villagers wear change styles from "before" to "after."
I'll have to read the original one of these days, but this is the story I remember from when I was a kid.
I'll have to read the original one of these days, but this is the story I remember from when I was a kid.
pasparugovna's review against another edition
5.0
A fun, witty and quick juxtaposition upon the metamorphosis pre-to-post the american independence war.
egajdosik's review against another edition
5.0
I just love Washington Irving's writing. I'm grateful to him for providing the United States with it's own folklore and fairytales.
jomarch436's review against another edition
1.0
I had thought this book was going to be great. I liked the illustrations, they remind me of folk art. It was very easy to understand, unlike a lot of other books written so long ago. Everything was going great. And then the book just ended. I thought the whole point of the book was going to be that Rip realized you can't just not do any work your whole life. But there was never that point, and worse, his son is now just like him. I also didn't like how the wife was villianized just because she didn't want him to be so lazy. I guess obvious sexism was just a part of the way things were, but it still wasn't pleasant to read.
livdrinkstea's review against another edition
Read for my American Literature class and it wasn’t bad.
dead_unicorn's review against another edition
2.0
Overall I didn't like his writing style, I didn't really like that he was the narrator telling you a story instead of you being in the story and most of his stories just rubbed me the wrong way. I really didn't like the way he talked about women. They were all "sweet untouched flowers" or "old ugly shrew"
Rip Van Winkle: Wow this was strange. I didn't get the point was it just suppose about doing anything to get away from your wife? He was a lazy young man that would do literally anything to not do any of his own work and one day goes for a walk and meet a strange man who gives him a strange drink and makes Rip Van Winkle sleep for 20 (or around that) years. I mean he slept through his wife's death and felt relieved. I didn't get it nor did I like it!
The Spectre Bridegroom: This one was cute. It is a story of a misunderstanding where a groom heading to meet his future bride is killed and using his dying breath to tell another man to tell the family of his bride to be that he has died and while that man goes to deliver his messages is mistaken for the groom. After meeting the young girl that the dead man was to marry he fell in love with her. I think the story would have been better if the reader didn't know from the beginning that the man who went to meet with the family wasn't the intended bridegroom and if the reader was ticked into think he was actually a ghost.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: This was nothing like how I thought it would be! I have seen adaptions of this story and they make it seem more like a ghost story than it actually is! It's all just a prank because two men were fighting over which would marry the heiress. This took too long to get to the point and Ichabod only really thought about food.
The Adventure of the German Student: Um ok necrophilia, why?
The Devil and Tom Walker: I liked this one it about if you are a shitty person going to church won't save you from the devil if you continue to be a shit person, you have to do good works to be a good person.
The Adventure of the Mason: I liked this one, it shows that sometime it pays to do just an honest day's work (and then some shady shit)
The Legend of the Rose of Alhambra: I kinda like this one it was a love story kinda, it was about a girl who is heartbroken getting a magic lute that wins her fame and reunites her with her true love. It was kinda cute but I think she forgave her lover way too quickly
The Governor and the Notary: Didn't get this one at all.
Governor Manco and the Soldier: I didn't get the point the soldier was imprisoned for making an outrageous story about how he ends up with some money and ends up seducing the Governor handmaiden to get out and runs away with her. It was meh
Rip Van Winkle: Wow this was strange. I didn't get the point was it just suppose about doing anything to get away from your wife? He was a lazy young man that would do literally anything to not do any of his own work and one day goes for a walk and meet a strange man who gives him a strange drink and makes Rip Van Winkle sleep for 20 (or around that) years. I mean he slept through his wife's death and felt relieved. I didn't get it nor did I like it!
The Spectre Bridegroom: This one was cute. It is a story of a misunderstanding where a groom heading to meet his future bride is killed and using his dying breath to tell another man to tell the family of his bride to be that he has died and while that man goes to deliver his messages is mistaken for the groom. After meeting the young girl that the dead man was to marry he fell in love with her. I think the story would have been better if the reader didn't know from the beginning that the man who went to meet with the family wasn't the intended bridegroom and if the reader was ticked into think he was actually a ghost.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: This was nothing like how I thought it would be! I have seen adaptions of this story and they make it seem more like a ghost story than it actually is! It's all just a prank because two men were fighting over which would marry the heiress. This took too long to get to the point and Ichabod only really thought about food.
The Adventure of the German Student: Um ok necrophilia, why?
The Devil and Tom Walker: I liked this one it about if you are a shitty person going to church won't save you from the devil if you continue to be a shit person, you have to do good works to be a good person.
The Adventure of the Mason: I liked this one, it shows that sometime it pays to do just an honest day's work (and then some shady shit)
The Legend of the Rose of Alhambra: I kinda like this one it was a love story kinda, it was about a girl who is heartbroken getting a magic lute that wins her fame and reunites her with her true love. It was kinda cute but I think she forgave her lover way too quickly
The Governor and the Notary: Didn't get this one at all.
Governor Manco and the Soldier: I didn't get the point the soldier was imprisoned for making an outrageous story about how he ends up with some money and ends up seducing the Governor handmaiden to get out and runs away with her. It was meh