Grimm Fairytales By Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

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Re: Grimm Fairytales By Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

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I love reading their stories :) .
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I've read a few of these and it's always shocking to see what is and isnt the same as modern versions
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My brother and I grew up watching the fairy tales told by none other than Disney. As you can imagine, the sweet, sugar-coated version stook with us many years and even know and mature YA. Still, I can remember going through that phase - we all have gone through that phase - where everything seemed hidden. That phase where you probably asked more questions about the obvious and the impossible than when you were a toddler.

One day we just asked why did Snow White's story end that way? Why doesn't she ever confront the wicked stepmother? I wanted to know what happened after the little mermaid got married to her prince, did she ever miss the sea and her family? What of Cinderella's stepfamily, what consequences did they face after years of treating her so cruelly?!

Yeah, that phase.

So when my brother and I discovered so videos claiming to have the answers to the questions, we spent nearly a whole night learning about the first fairy tales. The Grimm fairy tales became a popular topic for a while and I've only read a few of them. I think what I like most about them, is the fact that even back then in the old, medieval days, the art of storytelling was meant to accomplish the same as today. The creation of the Grimm Tales kind of shows how little has really changed in this department. Stories have always reflected the environment back at us tenfold. It reflects our fears of wandering into the dark by creating shadow monsters of deceitful faires. It reflects our weariness of strangers by turning the most unthreatening old women into children eaters. It was a dark and unexplored world back then, much was to be feared and punishment was plentiful, through stories like the Grimm Tales the people at the time used their best tool to keep the children safe; their voice. In a way, we still do that today. Lady Llarona is a popular creepy told to children in the Latin/Hispanic region to be home before dark and not to play close to rushing rivers. When I was a kid, my parents told me that spirits lived in the dark so I would stay out too late. It was creepy but effective.

I think the same can be said for Grimm's Tale, creepy yet effective. :tiphat:
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I love Grimm's fairy tales! It's so interesting and reading the short stories is really fun. I am reading a watered down version to my son because they can be a bit grim...
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Post by berlin-brunett »

Growing up in Germany, Grimm‘s fairytales were a big part of my childhood and to this day I still love reading them. While as a kid I didn’t understand a lot of details about the stories it’s now fun and really interesting to get the „darkness“ behind the real stories. To this day it still bluffed me sometimes how well they’re written...
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I had a copy, I was reading it and then someone borrowed it and I never got it back. Fairy tales are, it seems, a lot scarier in writing than they are in films. I do recall "Cinderella" from the book. Pinocchio is kind of like these stories. Disney changes a lot.
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Grimm’s Fairytales is fantastic! I bought the book at the same time as an Edgar Allen Poe anthology, and spent quite a few nights after thinking “What the...?!” every few minutes. :lol2: I think it’s pretty cool to have adapted, kid-friendly versions of many stories that stem from quite dark, even macabre tales oriented toward an adult audience. The stories can take on so many new meanings as you grow.
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I absolutely adore Grimm's Fairy Tales. The fact that they are the inspiration for so many of the fairytales we were told as kids just makes them more interesting. I am a fan of the darker themed books,but its not for everybody.
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I like being able to see the original endings of fairytales because Disney has really changed them to be light and fluffy, it's quite cool to be able to find out that they are not all how they appear to be!
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A book with a lot of short stories is the kind of book I love to read and I am certain this won't be any different from the rest. You did a good job reviewing this book.
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I'm familiar with many of these fairy tails and liked many of them. I had hoped to improve my German enough to read them in the original language but as of yet have not done so. I liked that the stories are not sugar coated fluff. I think even children usually like something with a little more substance than many of the tame stories of today. As my German professor said, children love the scary stories when they are reading them with a parent or grandparent, someone they love, and they know they are safe.
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Grimm fairytales are the best. They really keep children growing.
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I love the movies based ones and then went to read where they came from. I was not disappoint in it that is for sure, I like the book while I did have some that I prefer not to read again.
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Love Grimm's fairytales! When I took German class in high school we actually had a whole unit on them. We practiced reading them in the original German and compared them with the more commonly known versions of the same stories. I became obsessed!
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Reading Grimm fairytales as an adult showed me the power of short stories. I was always a novel person, but after reading dozens of these tales, I realized short stories can pack a punch. It got me into reading short stories outside of the fairy tale genre. I love how both kids and adults can enjoy these. They also give good insist into Germanic culture and traditions at the time.
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