german review
audible audiobook

Inhalt: Die schönsten Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm: die beliebtesten Klassiker und fünf neu interpretierte Märchen mit Einleitungen bekannter Lesebotschafter.

Lesen ist ein Geschenk: Seit Jahrhunderten bezaubern die Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm Kinder und Erwachsene gleichermaßen. In diesem liebevollen Hörbuch sind die bekanntesten Klassiker versammelt, von Aschenputtel, über Schneewittchen bis zu Rapunzel. Auch fünf neue Märchen voller Zeitgeist, geschrieben von Bestsellerautoren wie Iny Lorenz und Poppy J. Anderson, folgen den Spuren der Gebrüder Grimm. Das Besondere an diesem (Vor)Leseschatz: Prominente Lesebotschafter, u.a. Joey Kelly, Olivia Jones und Jens Lehmann, erzählen einleitend, was das jeweilige Märchen für sie bedeutet und warum es sie bis heute durchs Leben begleitet hat.

Meine Bewertung: Fasst nicht die alten Märchen an und modernisiert sie!!!

Das war wirklich ein gut gemachtes Buch. Ich mochte es wieder mal die alten Märchen in ihrer Originalfassung zu hören. Allerdings waren die zwei Märchen, Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten und König Drosselbart, schrecklich in ihrer Modernisierung. Sowas braucht man nicht. Da waren mir die neuen Märchen, die neu erfunden waren wirklich um einiges lieber. Auch haben mich die vorworte nicht sonderlich interessiert. Ooops!!!

The audio book that I downloaded from Libox is a free download. It got a 62 Chapters or you can call them stories by the Grimm Brothers. It fairy tales and what the originals stories ending really are. 

Did you always think that the Disney version was the real one and did not know that they did not really end up Happy ever after. Well I did until I read a book that was called Grimm Woods by D. Melhoff. 

It made go looking for the original stories of my favorite fairy tales. Grimm Woods did not tell all the fairy tales ending it was story of itself but it did act out some of the fairy tales. It also is an adult or new adult book. Please be caution to that fact. 

This one is not as graphic in the audio book. This is not to bad. It help understand some of the fairy tales. The ending are different then though of Disney's. I know why that is, it is because they remade them to fit better for young children. 

You will get some of your classic fairy tales in this audio book. It enjoyed it. Though I say it will take some time to listen to. It a 10 hours and 32 mins long audio book. I would suggest listening this is pieces or couple of hours a day.

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(Original Review, 2005-11-30)


In Genesis there is suddenly this sentence/observation about giants walking the Earth in them days... I always see those elderly male Jews in Babylon, staring glumly at some campfire, thinking about the good old days and thinking up revengeful plans to smite the enemy. They tell the stories of their tribes but there is that one quite senile idiot always going on about 'them giants' - so in the end they say, "Okay, we WILL put them in. Now shut up already!" I can see myself being the Giant Guy (if more all over the place) and I'm not sure the good campfire folks here need the distraction...

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I think my only exposure to the Grimm brothers’ stories has been the Disney-fied version. I think I prefer Disney’s.

Stories:

1. Hans in Luck – Hans is a fool who wouldn’t know a good bargain if it punched him in the face.
2. The Goose Girl – Trickery and ambition get you thrown naked into a barrel of nails and dragged to your death.
3. The Frog Prince – He’s the original “nice guy”. Accept help from a nasty toad and you will wind up with a Prince who feels he has the right to your time, your food, and your bed
4. The Wolf and the Seven Goslings – “If you don’t do it,” cried the wolf, “I’ll eat you up!” And the miller was afraid and did as he was told. And that just shows what men are.
5. Faithful John – Abducted princess suffers Stockholm Syndrome, parents willingly decapitate their own children to save their faithful servant, wtf is this story?
6. Rapunzel – If the prince loved her so much, why didn’t he just bring a ladder to help her escape, instead of visiting every night to have sex with her in prison?
7. Hansel and Grethel – For once in these stories a girl takes action and saves herself and her brother.
8. The White Snake – A princess has fun setting impossible tasks for her suitors and killing them when they fail. Until a servant boy’s animal friends help him pass all the tasks, and he and the princess live HEA. Yay?
9. Mother Hulda – Helpful and industrious girls are rewarded. Lazy and mean-spirited girls are tarred and feathered.
10. Tom Thumb – He’s a tiny psychopath.
11. The Elves - oooookaaaayyy
12. The Robber Bridegroom – Girl keeps her head, brings justice to man who chops up and eats women.
13. The Almond Tree – Wicked woman decapitates and dismembers her stepson and feeds him to his father. All is HEA when stepmother is crushed by a millstone and the boy is resurrected by the almond tree.
14. The Six Swans – More wicked stepmothers and abducted girls “willingly” married to their captors
15. The Sleeping Beauty – Two beautiful privileged youth find each other and live HEA without a thought of the many boys with poor timing who died an agonized death impaled in the thorn hedge. This may be the best one, with the wonderful imagery of the kingdom asleep in suspended animation.
16. Snow White – Snow White is TSTL but is such a beautiful corpse that a prince marries her, and the evil queen is an incompetent murderess, but gets death by red-hot iron shoes.
17. Rumpelstiltsken – I think Rumpelstiltsken got a raw deal here. The greedy 1% stole his gold and welshed on the trade.
18. The Golden Bird – Another story where some dolt gets to own a beautiful princess as a contest prize.
19. The Golden Goose – I’d be a sourpuss too, if my father announced he’d give me away as a contest prize.

Illustrations: They are wonderfully intricate, but the style doesn’t really appeal to me.

Hardcover copy with the text translated from the original German and with intricately detailed illustrations.

I read this for the 2018 Halloween Bingo square A Grimm Tale: any fairy tale or retelling of fairy tales, folklore, legends, etc.