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Fairy tales transformed: victims turned victimizers; mythologies mixed and matched; Christianity made pagan; the subtext of fables become the actual text. Silken prose and disturbing undercurrents.
I first read this at age 13 or 14, back when it was initially published in the early 80s. I still remember the hard look my mother gave me when I asked her to buy it for me; the glance down at the tawdry-cheesy cover; the almost-shrug and finally the "I'll read this after you've finished." It became on ...more
I first read this at age 13 or 14, back when it was initially published in the early 80s. I still remember the hard look my mother gave me when I asked her to buy it for me; the glance down at the tawdry-cheesy cover; the almost-shrug and finally the "I'll read this after you've finished." It became on ...more
A wonderful classic of dark fantasy; every short story in this collection is a small jewel. Comparable in quality and prose to Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber of which I'm confident Lee was heavily indebted to.
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This certainly lives up to its reputation!
(But the cover is horrid - especially compared to the older covers.)
(But the cover is horrid - especially compared to the older covers.)
I've come back to this collection of short stories a couple of times after first reading them in middle school. I've always been an avid reader of fairy tale retellings. My sheltered middle school self was shocked by the depictions of the Black Arts and Satanism that Lee incorporates into each of these retellings, and I remember coming away from it admiring Lee's writing but not what she did to the tales.
After taking note as an adult, however, that each tale is set in a different century, I can ...more
After taking note as an adult, however, that each tale is set in a different century, I can ...more
May 17, 2008
Netanella
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Oct 31, 2008
Danielle The Book Huntress
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Feb 26, 2009
Michele
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it was amazing
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Mar 13, 2009
Reem
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