Grimms' Fairy Tales 2 (Unabridged Selections) Audiobook

" Must have in your collection, especially if you have children. "

" My Grandmother gave me this collection before she died. I love how dark and menacing these stories are, so very not Disney. "

" this book is enchanting with stories of love, royalty, beheading, and a lot more. it's written the old way or whatever you call it with words like "thou" and stuff. which makes it all the more special. "

" Another required reading for the Coursera class. As described by the professor, the purpose of the Grimms' tales was to create a German cultural unity. Many of the stories came from other places, for example, Sleeping Beauty was written by the French Charles Perrault. "

" Honestly, I don't think it's that bad. I like the story.i didn't really read it when I rated it but after I read it, it was really worth it!!!! "

" It's strange and macabre. Totally worth reading it. "

" This collection has reference value if you are into tracing the origins of stories that have been told dozens of times back to their source. Unfortunately, I found most of the Grimm fairy tales to be sorely dated. By their nature they read more as sketches of ideas that can be expanded upon and told in different ways; each are childishly simplistic, and often forgo basic storytelling conventions enough to not make any sense. "

" Familiar Fairy Tales.....BUT NOT.. "

" Nice to read something that has a bit more morbid twist. "

" Very interesting and somewhat gruesome. Enlightening to see what entertainment was like back then. "

" I remember reading one or two of the Grimm fairy tales in high school and remember, incorrectly, them actually being good. You can read one or two of their stories and you have read them all. It is like reading the same story over and over and over and over....well you get the point. "

" My rating as a child would have been about this. "

" My mom got so much crap for letting me read these, she gave me her copy from when she was a girl. No wonder I turned out the way I did! "

" Not for the faint of heart. Good introduction and commentary, but probably not a book to read straight through to your kids. "

" so many of these stories were pointless! I don't remember them seeming pointless as a kid...maybe I fell asleep before the endings? "

" This is not for children but a great read, you can enjoy a different Grim brothers story each night! "

" The true Grimm fairy tales can be gory and are very adult stories. The condensed versions told to children are nothing like the original stories. "

" good old fairy tales! i downloaded it in iBooks and spend my time reading this! just a throwback, eventhough,i am still familiar with the story.. :)) "

" Classique, tordu et cruel comme tous les contes! "

" Fairy tales never get old. "

" The magical, fun, childhood fantasies... was fun to read and re-read the tales we have grown up with at first, but mid-way the fables all started to sound the same and it got boring. "

" They are classics so everyone knows the stories and they are told very quickly. Not a thriller but god bedtime stories. "

" !ad it read to me when I was younger, loved it then and love it more now! "

" Simple and surprising "

" read to my children and i belied this was the one where everything did not end so happy "

" I particularly love the one where they leave the children in the woods to die. That and the one where the bird kills the mom with a millstone. "

" I Thoroughly enjoy these books, but feel that as a side note I should add that some are extremely violent. read at your own risk. Some of my favorites include 'King Thrushbeard' and 'The Three Spinsters.' "

" This will be an on-going read. There are too many stories to page through from front cover to back cover. I love skimming over the title page, finding a title that sounds unusual, and flipping to it. Like "King Thrushbeard." How could you not want to know who this person is and why? "

" it's always refreshing to reread some things :) <3 "