Cloaked in Red
Eight witty stories that parody the Little Red Riding Hood tale
Eight witty stories that parody the Little Red Riding Hood tale
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780761457930 (0761457933)
Publish date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: Two Lions
Pages no: 127
Edition language: English
This book started out bad for me – with an author’s note in which she makes fun of the original Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood.Everyone knows the story of Little Red Riding Hood, the girl with the unfortunate name and the inability to tell the difference between her grandmother and a member of a dif...
Quite honestly, I liked the idea of this collection more than I liked the stories. I did appreciate the humor and the fact that Velde did address the issues she'd always had with the Little Red Ridinghood story in its varied incarnations. I actually agree with her on many points. However, I think a ...
The author’s name is so cool. Too bad the book she wrote wasn’t great.Basically the book is a collection of short stories of Little Red Riding Hood. Most of them are filled with satire. The concept of it was truly interesting unfortunately her writing is drab. Nothing of it was interesting. Her idea...
A quick entertaining read at times very amusing.
Apart from the foreward, where she implies with (mock?) scorn that cross-dressing is scandalous and grannies can't have fulfilling sexual relationships (and pretends to be unaware of the power of the archetype, the very power that allows her the freedom to undertake the book she just wrote) this is ...
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