Books by Jacob Grimm
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review 1: It's not as easy as one would think, to review a collection of stories. Some of them were great, some were bad, and other again were just okay. My favorite story was, without a doubt, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. That's the one story that keeps popping into my mind, when I think...
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review 1: Grimm Fairy tales is a collection of short tales where good guys win and bad guys lose. A funny assortment of tales that involve animals both real and made up. All of the stories hold important life lessons for children. I found this book to quite interesting. The book is a colle...
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review 1: This book was the most interesting book I have ever laid my eyes on. The Grimm Fairy Tales is my favorite type of stories. They twist and turn the truth about fairy tales. The Grimm brothers were the original fairy tale writers in my perspective. They give the most gruesome tales...
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review 1: Interesting to see the originals that Disney worked their magic on. There's a similarity across some of the stories where you can see that perhaps they are mutated versions of the same original that have morphed as they were told. Also there are a number of fairy stories that I h...
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review 1: I had never actually read the original fairy tales that weren't disney based and didn't have happy endings. When I did I was like "now I understand where they all come from." Because growing up I always thought disney made these. These are pretty grim (pun intended). The way th...
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review 1: I usually love my fairytales but this book was literally just not one of the better collections of Grimm that they have out there. The majority of the stories within here were just a copy of a story that they had fifty or a hundred pages from there but with bits and pieces change...
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review 1: There are great classics like the Grimm Fairy Tales, Aesops Fables, the Kalevala, and the Greco-Roman myths should be read by everyone. They contain archetypes, morals and plot structures that you will encounter over and over again at the cinema, in the theatre, at the opera hou...