This book, even as satire was so offensive, it took me months to read it hoping to find something worthwhile. The jokes made fun of different groups of people, and were not funny. Classes of people and people of color were all mocked. I have no idea why i owned this book. ( )

Nota de Pamen en 1ª pág.: Dic-2007

En tiempos muy lejanos, para amenizar las reuniones, era costumbre relatarse historias los unos a los otros. Aquellas narraciones orales, muchas de las cuales llegaron a abrirse camino hasta formar parte del dominio público, reflejaban el modo de vida de la sociedad de entonces. Eran cuentos sexistas, discriminatorios, injustos, culturalmente tendenciosos y denigrantes, para las brujas, los animales, los duendes y las hadas de este mundo. Afortunadamente, James Finn Garner ha rescatado aquellas narraciones clásicas (Caperucita Roja, Blancanieves y los siete enanitos, etc...), contándolas de nuevo con un delicioso sentido del humor y de un modo mucho más aceptable para la sociedad de nuestros días, libre por completo de tendenciosidad y limpio de las influencias de un pasado culturalmente sospechoso, a años luz de la perfección que ampara todo lo políticamente correcto.

4/19/22

I originally read this collection when I was a kid - it seemed to go hand in hand with the surge in popularity during the 1990s for modernized fairytales, and I read all of them that I could get my hands on - and it still holds up to re-reading it 20-odd years later. Political correctness never goes out of style (or in some cases, mocking political correctness, as this collection sometimes seems to), and it's always nice to see stereotypes turned upon their heads. The bears turning on Goldilocks is one of the most memorable moments from the collection, but I think the story that made me laugh the most is when the Emperor (of invisible clothes fame) manages to turn his kingdom into a clothing-optional society. Take that, dress codes! ( )