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Chargement... The Frog Prince: A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adultspar Stephen Mitchell
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Although this story is called "A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults" this titillating banner has nothing to do with what you would call "adult content". I think it has more to do with the dry narrative that might prove a little dull to a younger reader (or me, since I'm pretty immature). The story was an unusual way of re-telling the Frog Prince fairy tale and despite the analytical view it pretty much followed the original storyline. It did give extra insight as to the inner motivations the characters had for what they did, which was interesting. One thing I don't remember from the original tale was the chucking of the frog at the wall but, that could just be that I never got to the end of the fairy tale before. Despite the fact that I realize this was probably supposed to be a witty and clever re-telling, I feel that I really didn't get it. This could just be me and I would hate to discourage anyone from trying out the story for themselves should they have an interest. ok last part! This book is, as expected, a retelling of the story of the frog prince. I've heard the story before "there was this frog, and a princess kissed it, and it turned into a prince, and they got married" but i thought that was it but.... this is not so. The feeling of this story is kind of like you're invisible and you're watching the princess and frog and how their story unfolds. It's like the omniscient narrator is letting you look into his binoculars. Stalker. Anyway. The story is nice, and the princess seems really cool (she could kick Anna Percy's arse.). However, everyone seems quite pedantic. Maybe that's the right word. Well, they seem pedantic to me. I don't get why the author felt like he had to have the narrator give all these speches about how entropy and thermodynamics don't apply to the soul and love. I've heard that kind of stuff in movies so it wasn't very appealing to me in a book. I got used to it though. It's stylistic and i bet it was hard to keep up the style like that. read? Yeah. It's refreshing. or something. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In this brilliant jewel of a book, the best-selling author of Tao Te Ching: A New English Version expands and deepens the classic fairy tale in the most surprising and delightful ways, giving new emphasis to its message of the transcendent power of love. The Frog Prince tells the story of a meditative frog's love for a rebellious princess, how she came to love him in spite of herself, and how her refusal to compromise helped him become who he truly was. This is a magical book that moves (amphibiously) from story to meditation and back, from the outrageous to the philosophical to the silly to the sublime. Profound, touching, written in prose as lively and unpredictable as a dream, The Frog Prince tickles the mind, opens the heart, and holds up a mirror to the soul. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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The book itself is pleasant, other than a few hiccups along the way. At one point the narrator relates an event in the story with a modern baseball reference. Of course the narrator is supposed act as a story teller, but it spoils the atmosphere a bit, just like it would if someone did that very thing while telling the story in person. Other than a few little road bumps such as this, however, it is cute little expansion of the classic tale. ( )