Reviews for Mine Own People

The average rating for Mine Own People based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-01-19 00:00:00 Bill Allen Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm is a 2014 Open Road Media publication. (Originally published in 1812) This compilation is a sampling of Grimm's Fairy Tales- featuring some of the more well-known stories like 'Rapunzel' and 'Briar Rose'- aka 'Sleeping Beauty'. However, I didn't know well over half of the stories included in this book. So, it was fun to read 'new to me' Grimm's Fairy Tales. While some of my favorite stories as a child came from the Disney adaptations, which were seriously toned down, I do remember hearing the original versions of some of these tales. One of my favorite stories is the 'The Elves and the Shoemaker'. I read that story over and over as a child. So, it was fun revisiting some old favorites, and discovering ones I'd never read before. Some of the stories are similar, and some were far better than others. Some were barely a page long, while others were several pages in length. Some readers, younger than I am, who may be discovering these tales for the first time, might be taken aback by the dark and violent nature of some of the stories, and some may find some attitudes off putting. Some younger children could find a few of these tales disturbing. However, keep in mind the time frame in which the books were written and try not to judge them too harshly. Frankly, I appreciated the moral of many of these tales- and everything always works out in the end. Overall, I enjoyed reading the books in this collection, bringing back a few childhood memories and providing me with a nice change of pace, as well.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-05-02 00:00:00 William Geary Sometimes, you just have to hand it to people based on sheer innovation alone. For example, the buttered popcorn jellybean may be disgusting on a level previously undiscovered by man, bringing together an unholy combination of unexpected texture and profoundly unpleasant taste in a way that should be reserved solely for punishing our society's most reprehensible criminals, but don't you have to acknowledge the sheer evil genius of those whimsical folks at the Jelly Belly corporation for making history? Same goes for this book, which manages to make some of the most fantastic tales of all time straight-up boring. This is hands down the worst and most tragic translation of the Grimm tales I've ever read, and I've read a lot of those glorified gentrifiers. Where is the SPARK. Where is the FUN. Where is the OVERWROUGHT LANGUAGE and the REPETITIVE DESCRIPTIONS OF PRETTY GIRLS and the ADVENTURE. This book sucks, but you kind of have to give it props just for managing to take something like "guy who doesn't know what fear is gets up to hilarious hijinks in a haunted house and is handed a princess for it" or "girl highkey needs to get laid and so she accidentally discovers her husband is a bear and then it's like oh sh*t we have to save this guy from the world's ugliest woman"...and making it boring. It is so unimpressive that it actually comes full circle and is impressive again. Bottom line: Read literally any volume of fairy tales other than this one. ------------- the brothers grimm want what andrew lang has!!! review to come / 2 stars ------------- going to be offline for a couple days. i'm trying to learn how to shudder and this king guy said if i stay in a haunted castle for three nights i can marry his daughter