I understand what you mean with the Grimm's tales. Same thing for Edgar Allan Poe short stories this year. I didn't have the courage to read it all in one shoot, but I persevere. I've just finish to read A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham and I think I will read another 2-3 novels before doing another "batch" of Edgar Allan Poe.
My biggest problem with the Grimm's tales is that a large proportion really aren't that good. There are a few that are good and I find it quite interesting how this part from that story and that part of this story find there way into the same modern movie or show. But when it comes down to it I find them more of a curiosity that I keep going back to rather then a good page turner. One day I hope to finish them all.
Same thing with Edgar Allan Poe. Some tales are very good (The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum) and others seem to be divagation (Mesmeric Revelation). I admit, Poe is a predecessor, but his characters are not deep at all and the level of writing make that I want to give up so many times.
Lastly, I've read ~ fourty tales of them and I've got to say that a lot of stories repeat itself, a lot of clones. Some of tales were very hardcore and not for kids. Not really Disney, isn't?
My favorites: Hansel and Gretel, The Valiant Little Tailor, Cinderella, Little Snow-White, The Two Brothers and Hans in Luck.
It was fun to read The Glass Coffin because this year I'd read an Antonia Susan Byatt variant in her novel Possession. But Byatt version was far better.
I understand what you mean with the Grimm's tales. Same thing for Edgar Allan Poe short stories this year. I didn't have the courage to read it all in one shoot, but I persevere. I've just finish to read A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham and I think I will read another 2-3 novels before doing another "batch" of Edgar Allan Poe.
My biggest problem with the Grimm's tales is that a large proportion really aren't that good. There are a few that are good and I find it quite interesting how this part from that story and that part of this story find there way into the same modern movie or show. But when it comes down to it I find them more of a curiosity that I keep going back to rather then a good page turner. One day I hope to finish them all.
Same thing with Edgar Allan Poe. Some tales are very good (The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum) and others seem to be divagation (Mesmeric Revelation). I admit, Poe is a predecessor, but his characters are not deep at all and the level of writing make that I want to give up so many times.
Lastly, I've read ~ fourty tales of them and I've got to say that a lot of stories repeat itself, a lot of clones. Some of tales were very hardcore and not for kids. Not really Disney, isn't?
My favorites: Hansel and Gretel, The Valiant Little Tailor, Cinderella, Little Snow-White, The Two Brothers and Hans in Luck.
It was fun to read The Glass Coffin because this year I'd read an Antonia Susan Byatt variant in her novel Possession. But Byatt version was far better.