Reviews for Grimm's Fairy Tales

The average rating for Grimm's Fairy Tales based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-15 00:00:00 Mike Calhoun I listened to these and this is what I've learnt: Things you really need to know if you ever end up in fairy tale land. Don't rely on the love of your father if he is hungry and has a nagging second wife. Cutting off bits of your toes or your heals is not the most effective way to win the prince. But if you do find this necessary, remember to cauterise the wound. Always chew your food, Mr Wolf. If you are female then men may well complain that you talk too much - but remaining silent for seven years will probably mean the king will marry you, but will also try to have you burnt alive. Kings who marry you because you are on top of a tree generally have nasty mothers who will nag them until he decides to have you burnt on a huge pyre. Just because Jesus had a bad time after inviting 13 to a dinner party doesn't mean you will not also have a bad time by avoiding inviting 13 to your party. Birds eat bread but not stones, you should try to remember this - especially after it worked so well the first time. You should never break a promise - no matter how odious the consequences. If two seemingly different little old ladies have tried to kill you and on two separate occasions, you should probably learn to not trust little old ladies who come offering you gifts. Especially if the seven short guys you clean up after have already warned you what to look out for. You can be interrupted at your wedding feast by a hare, a fox, a wolf, a bear and a lion before your dad, the King, asks, 'what's with all the animals?' When bad things happen to bad people, they are generally really bad things - birds pluck out their eyes, they are put into barrels with boiling oil and snakes (boiling oil resistant snakes, obviously) or have cast iron shoes heated on the fire and put on to their feet so they dance until they die. If you can be one of the good guys in fairy tale land, it does pay. And not just now, but forever after too. If you must choose between taking the word of your three sons or the word of your goat - it is probably best to believe your sons. It is ok to break your promise to a creepy little guy who has a Jewish sounding surname, even if you only suspect he has a Jewish sounding surname. If you are an important enough hero to the story being dead is generally only a temporary setback. Being told the town has to sacrifice the King's daughter to a dragon who only eats virgins is an invitation for you to kill the dragon, not one for you to sleep with the King's daughter - even if the second alternative would seem the easiest way to get to the end of the story and one that avoids all of the endless tribulations they have for you along the way. Sleeping is almost always a bad idea.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-05-14 00:00:00 Ira Uland So, I read all the fairy tales when I was a kid and I seriously don't remember them being this "grim" (pardon the pun). Of course, the children versions of these are much more tame and a lot of the gory details are left out, of course. It's still very cool to read the "original" versions as an adult and really get a sense for these folk tales! But if you're the kind of person that get upset at the amount of people George R.R. Martin kills off in his books, then don't read these! I'll leave you with the example of the "The Death of the Little Hen" which end with: "...and then everyone was dead."