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Miss Jo wrote:I'm reading Grimms' Fairy Tales. The cover says "Complete and Unabridged" but I'm beginning to suspect that that's a lie. I've heard before that in The Frog Prince, the princess throws the frog against the wall and he awakes as a prince. But in the version in this book, she just wakes up one morning and he's a prince. And one of my teachers said that she has a version of Cinderella in which a bird pecks out the eyes of one of the stepsisters, but in my version the bird just sits on Cindy's shoulder and doesn't peck. I am outraged! I expected some really disturbing, gory stories!

If it's the same "complete and unabridged" version I bought, IT'S NOT! I looked up my favorite story in it (my grandmum used to read it to me all the time) and it was totally different! I was soooooooo mad! I need to find the old, old copy she used to read to me from. What does the cover look like on yours?

I have a book with all the Grimm tales...

and Yes in Cinderella the Stepsisters DO get their eyes poked out........

Pretty GREAT!

and the Evil Queen in Snow White has to Dance in Very HOT Shoes.........

on my cover it's got two people kissing.......

Mine doesn't have that, but the edition my grandma read me might... I wonder where we put that... Yes and Cinderella's step-sisters cut off their toes too.

this little piggy went to the market
this little piggy went to the game
this little piggy went to the dance
and this little piggy went...the hell outta here!!!!
hahhahahhahahahaha

I can thank Gregory Maguire and his great novel Wicked for my latest reading craze...fairy tale revisionism!

I read Briar Rose, by Jane Yolen, a retelling of Sleeping Beauty through the Holocaust. The premise is probably the most intriguing I've come upon for the novel, but Jane really fumbled the ball on this one. There wasn't enough story. In other words, this was a case of a bloated novel that should have just been satisfied as a thirty-page short story.

I don't know why Jane Yolen is called the Hans Christian Anderson of American. That's just insulting to Mr. Hans! It's these pesky fantasists that are just dying to annoint someone the saviour of the literary fairy tale. One problems guys: She's not it! If they want the fantasy genre to be taken seriously, they really need to stop maming classic fairy tales like this. I was interested in reading the rest of the Fairy Tale Series, but now I'm not!

PMcOuntry wrote:If it's the same "complete and unabridged" version I bought, IT'S NOT! I looked up my favorite story in it (my grandmum used to read it to me all the time) and it was totally different! I was soooooooo mad! I need to find the old, old copy she used to read to me from. What does the cover look like on yours?

The background is blue-striped, the title and authors are written in a cream-coloured rectangle, the pages are gilt-trimmed, the cover says "Collector's Library" with a picture of a sailboat.

Alice wrote:I have a book with all the Grimm tales...
and the Evil Queen in Snow White has to Dance in Very HOT Shoes.........

I knew I had heard somewhere that that happened! I was reading Snow White, waiting for that to happen, and guess what?

"When she got there [to Snow's wedding], and saw that it was no other than Snow White, who she thought had been dead a long while, she choked with rage and fell down and died."

Please! I'm choking with rage right now at this contemptible false advertising. I would never buy a classic book if it didn't say "Complete and Unabridged" on the cover, and would have never supposed that the publishers would so flagrantly lie.

Miss Jo wrote:The background is blue-striped, the title and authors are written in a cream-coloured rectangle, the pages are gilt-trimmed, the cover says "Collector's Library" with a picture of a sailboat.

Does your copy look the same, PMcOuntry?

Nope, mine has like an old picture of a half nekkid woman on it...

Our original one was deep red w/gold pages.

I haven't read a book in a long time so I decided to buy Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

I finished Where the Wind Blows by James Patterson last night...starting The Lake House soon. Trying to catch myself up before I read Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment.

True Believer by Nicholas Sparks

Prince Eric wrote:I can thank Gregory Maguire and his great novel Wicked for my latest reading craze...fairy tale revisionism!

That's what I just read.

Wicked was such a good book, and the music from the broadway show is amazing, I can't wait to see it someday, that and Avenue Q

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe!

Miss Jo wrote:

Alice wrote:I have a book with all the Grimm tales...
and the Evil Queen in Snow White has to Dance in Very HOT Shoes.........

I knew I had heard somewhere that that happened! I was reading Snow White, waiting for that to happen, and guess what?

"When she got there [to Snow's wedding], and saw that it was no other than Snow White, who she thought had been dead a long while, she choked with rage and fell down and died."

Please! I'm choking with rage right now at this contemptible false advertising. I would never buy a classic book if it didn't say "Complete and Unabridged" on the cover, and would have never supposed that the publishers would so flagrantly lie.

Wasn't the story written on the DVD of Snow White PE. I remember reading it when I borrowed the DVD from the library.

I just started Moby Dick. I didn't realize it was a difficult book to read but I'll be sure to get through it. After that I'll probably read, Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Alice wrote:I have a book with all the Grimm tales...

and Yes in Cinderella the Stepsisters DO get their eyes poked out........

I am learning about the Grimm Brothers and Grimm's linguistic laws.

A teacher in gradeschool read Cinderealla to the class.

I just started reading sheet music. Does sheet music count? lol I'm about three or four chapters into The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. I have this image of Demi Moore wearing a Puritin dress. I'm weird.

A is for Averice, or Angel? Good question.

Bye

getting ready to read the Fantastic Four

Little House on the Prairie