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Book: Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
Title: Household Stories
Author: the Brothers Grimm
Genre: fantasy
Book Number/Goal: 12/52
My Rating: 4/5
Notes: for Coursera Fantasy and Science Fiction course (mostly re-read)
Download: project Gutenberg
Review:
It's a collection of classic fairy tales. The stories are very diverse - some of them involve magic and adventure, some are about anthropomorphized animals, some are simply episodes of daily life, depicting either cunning or stupid people. All the stories are short and written in easy, almost primitive, language, focusing on action and dialogies, rather than description. They're not gory in the modern sense, but most involve some degree of cruelty and violence. (My essay for the course draws a connection between these tales and medieval torture and the Inquisition :)
The stories are too simple and too well-known to be impressive, but I enjoyed rereading them, and even discovered some unfamiliar ones. My favorite story, The Robber Bridegroom, was reminiscent on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.
Author: the Brothers Grimm
Genre: fantasy
Book Number/Goal: 12/52
My Rating: 4/5
Notes: for Coursera Fantasy and Science Fiction course (mostly re-read)
Download: project Gutenberg
Review:
It's a collection of classic fairy tales. The stories are very diverse - some of them involve magic and adventure, some are about anthropomorphized animals, some are simply episodes of daily life, depicting either cunning or stupid people. All the stories are short and written in easy, almost primitive, language, focusing on action and dialogies, rather than description. They're not gory in the modern sense, but most involve some degree of cruelty and violence. (My essay for the course draws a connection between these tales and medieval torture and the Inquisition :)
The stories are too simple and too well-known to be impressive, but I enjoyed rereading them, and even discovered some unfamiliar ones. My favorite story, The Robber Bridegroom, was reminiscent on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.