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 Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 7:51 pm
whats your favorite?
Which version?
why?
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:56 am
The Holy Bible.
King James Version.
Because it makes Pol Pot look like a strict moralist.
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:39 am
I like most of the Grimms Fairy Tales, in their original form. Blood and all. Its kind of unfair how they've watered them down over the years.
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:12 pm
I like the story of King Arthur, though the variation of it in The Mouse Knight series is my favorite variation on it.
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:32 am
I used to read Grimm's Fairy Tales all the time when I was a kid.
Those were GORY.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:25 am
I have this huge book of Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, and I love them all. They're really cheesy and really predictable, but they're so pretty! Alice in Wonderland too, if that counts.
But what about Animal Farm? George Orwell said that was a "fairy story." Well, I won't get into that.
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:32 pm
I once read a Russian fairytale about a poor man with a terrible wife that always did the opposite of what he said. So when he found a big hole in the ground one day, he told her: "Don't go pick the berries on the north side of the forest" or something like that, and so she did. She fell in the hole, and a week later, he went to go check on her and finds that the group of evil imps living there are terrified and beg him to take his bad wife back because their lives had been miserable since she'd fallen in there.
I have no clue what it was called, but something about the woman's ability to scare even those horrible mythical creatures makes me love the story. It says "able to live under harsh circumstances" to me. xd
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Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:57 pm
Dragon_Witch_Woman I like most of the Grimms Fairy Tales, in their original form. Blood and all. Its kind of unfair how they've watered them down over the years. Agreed. However, my favorite tales are probably those of Isaac Baschevis(sp?) Singer, even if they aren't all fairy tales, strictly speaking.
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Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 7:13 pm
I love all faerie tales, every kind, even the gory ones. I have a book, written in 1880, with a really long complicated name that basically means "a faerie mythology" and it's really neat, its faerie tales from all over the world. Alice in Wonderland is my absolute favorite, but I love all of them with a passion.
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Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2007 7:20 pm
I don't really like the watered down tales you see these days. Way too sappy. Gotta love the original, gore and death filled versions though! My sister even bought a collection of those to read to her future children when they are little.
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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:37 am
I love reading and comparing folk tales. Many are related and it's nice to see the common elements. And I read them for fun too.
I can really reccomend Once upon a galaxy if you'd like something different. It's a collection of short stories where different writers give fairy tales a sfi fi twist. Some of them are really good. I joined a bookring for it last year (http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/3713559) and I don't regret it. Well worth the postage.
But the best version of a folk tale or fairy tale in my opinion is the one that's told and not read or written. I like to make up my own or freeform something based on the loads and loads of stories I've read. That's the way they're supposed to be enjoyed anyway, with the storyteller putting their own spin on it.
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:42 pm
When I was little, really little, I always loved all the Dr. Seuss everything! XD I don't know if those count as fairy tales, but those were really my favorites book to read and I even memorized green eggs and ham by the time I was four.
Other than that, I had a little Precious Memories book full of bible stories and another Mother Goose book with little silly poems in it. Not too many full on fairy tales for me. I didn't have the attention span for it. :3
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 4:24 pm
 It's so sad that Disney bowdlerized so many fairytales already...
...I concider The Kalevala to be my favorite...
...though, I think it counts more as epic poetry...
*shrugs* ...Oh well... ....Nevermore...
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:14 am
Pretty much anything non-disney.
Even though I love the movies, Disney slaughtered the Little Mermaid, Hercules and Mulan for me.
u.u
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Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:48 am
I remember a professional storyteller I went to see when I was about five or six... he told raw, close, mysterious local myths and fairy tales. I can't quite remember the content, but the sense of hyper-reality which came with them is still clear. One was about the Green Children, an another was simply about a girl who was order to fetch a skull from a crypt. Tsuki_Mari When I was little, really little, I always loved all the Dr. Seuss everything! 'The Lorax' all the way for me. The original eco-warrior. mrgreen Part of why the fantasy genre is so popular, I feel, is because of the overlap between fantasy, myth, legend, fairy tale, spiritualism and religion. A Lesson is Learned but the Damage is Irreversible is good for venturing into modern fairy tales, (well, the archived work at least. Alas, it is no more!).
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