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Oct 12, 2011

Mariel rated it:

Celebrity Death Match versus Heart of Darkness.

Dear Christopher Robin,

Your father and I miss you but we feel that it would be best if you spent the remainder of the summer at camp, as previously agreed. You quit the boy scouts, band and your newspaper route to spend more time with those... things. Really, my son, you are much too told to play with... stuffed animals. To think, all my friends in the bridge meetings have all-star athlete sons and honor roll daughters to brag ab More...

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Apr 21, 2009

Manny rated it:

In which the animals meet a Hostile Reviewer, and Pooh invents a New Breakfast

One morning, Pooh and Piglet were walking through the Hundred Acre Wood, when they spied a strange Creature lying on the ground. As they got closer, they could see that it looked a bit like a very large Boy. But what was most remarkable was that someone had tied it down with hundreds of tiny ropes. It could hardly move a finger, and there was even something tied over its mouth.

"Mmf!" s More...

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Oct 14, 2011

Karen rated it:

Celebrity Death Match Quarter Final

The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh versus Mary Poppins

BANKS FAMILY EXPRESS SHOCK AT NEW REVELATIONS IN POPPINS CASE

London, Friday 14th October 2011

The Banks family have expressed their 'deep disappointment' at new discoveries in the Poppins corruption scandal. 'We just can't understand it' a tearful Mrs Banks said to reporters yesterday. 'She always looked as if butter would not melt in her mouth. It' More...

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Nov 17, 2011

Erik rated it:

For Celebrity Deathmatch FINAL

A blustery day. Christopher Robin is on his way to work at the London office of Goldman Sachs. He is troubled about his employers and their crooked business practices, but he has been told to remain silent and he will be rich as long as he does nothing.

Occupy London Protestor: Hey, Chris, wakeup, you're on the wrong side!

Christopher (to himself): Oh, those scraggly protestors, I wish they would just get a job already...I wonder wh More...

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Jun 16, 2008

Evil_Dead_Junkie rated it:

It's tough to read something this perfect and pure without feeling a bit like Milton's Satan, dismayed by just how far from true innocence and grace I've fallen.

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Jan 29, 2012

Valerie rated it:

The first big surprise was that I hadn't actually read this book. I personally, loved watching Winnie the Pooh, I had just always assumed I had read the book. I can remember curling up on the couch on a sick day falling asleep while the movie played, I knew the story so of course I had read the book. Not true.

Second surprise was that I didn't know we even had it. Just found it in the basement with some other books that I haven't read. In my defense most of the books we have in the h More...

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Feb 18, 2008

Bagger rated it:

Winnie The Pooh, the philosopher of my childhood, and dare I say quite a few other people.
You can't go wrong with Winnie, Piglet and all the other friends in the 100 Acre Wood.
Which speaking of Piglet, it was ten years later before I realized he was a little pig, he was just Piglet to me, which just shows how great these characters are, its like Stuart Little you never think of him as a mouse, he's just Stuart, its the same way with the characters of Winnie The Pooh, this has some th More...

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Aug 11, 2011

Chris rated it:

Ok…for those of you who think that I only read deep, and incomprehensible, and boring books, I present to you exhibit A. A. Milne. :I

Several times a year I like to zip through a fun and imaginative children’s book or youth fiction. I find it refreshing. So I was in an old bookstore in Ft. Wayne the other day (http://www.everyotherbook.com) and I was looking through the vintage children’s books when I found a copy of The House At Pooh’s Corner looking all dusty and 1940’s-ish. I pul More...

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Jul 16, 2008

Summer rated it:

The Winnie the Pooh books are great because everyone has some sort of problem. Pooh is painfully naïve, Piglet is neurotic, Owl is a narcissist, Eeyore has major depression, Tigger is hyperactive, Rabbit is a sociopath, and Kanga needs to spend an afternoon with The Feminine Mystique. It's good for kids to learn that pretty much anyone you meet will have some sort of major problem.

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Nov 10, 2011

Bonnie rated it:

A truly adorable book for kids and adults alike. :D

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Dec 17, 2009

David rated it:

Manny wants me to justify my rating. Paul has provided the justification. But I do not recommend viewing the video in question. Really. Trust me. It's truly monstrous.

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Apr 30, 2008

travelerblue rated it:

Oh, the wisdom of Pooh!!!

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Jun 08, 2008

theduckthief rated it:

Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself under the name of Sanders.

The Good: This book is a collection of ten stories of the life and trials of Winnie the Pooh and his friends. Over the course of these stories Pooh pretends to be a raincloud, gets stuck in a rabbit hole, hunts Woozles, steals a baby kangaroo, survives a flood and manages to (almost) find the North Pole. His is a busy and exciting life but he doesn More...

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Nov 07, 2008

Marguerite rated it:

A favorite in our family, with Piglet's adventure with the "Horrible Heffalump" being the go-to chapter, to which the book falls open on its own. This was our vehicle and destination for many bedtime reads -- so much so, that I can't not read it aloud. (I also sing all the ditties.) Milne's writing is gentle and delightfully silly. Milne's characters are drawn from human life. (I supervised a couple of Eeyores and babysat some Tiggers in my time.) His book is a lovely testament to frie More...

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Nov 28, 2011

Iris rated it:

¡Qué linda la inocencia! Tanta ternura y sabiduría condensada en un pequeño libro.

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Dec 11, 2008

Qball rated it:

This book was just super funny like a cartoon

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Mar 04, 2009

Jamie rated it:

As thirty draws nearer and nearer, things which remind me of my mother (now that there are a good five states between us) have become nostalgic and dear. I found a copy of Winnie the Pooh at a used dollar bookstore in Glendale. Had it not been the exact red, cloth hardcover I had on my shelves in a set as a child, I might have passed it by--but as it was, without Now We are Six and The House at Pooh Corner to flank it, it looked lonely.
It wasn't until this weekend I picked it up and beg More...

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Dec 29, 2011

Bob rated it:

I was into Winnie the Pooh in college, which I suppose was as cutely retro as my parents being into the Flinstones when they were in college (which they were).

A friend studying in England sent me a small paperback my Junior year; my then-girlfriend and I and our circle of friends would extol the virtues of a bear of Very Little Brain and contrast his pure adventures with ours in our own Deep Dark Forest of academia.

Pooh became a totem for us before the total Disneyficatio More...

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Nov 19, 2011

NGE's Brother rated it:

The Divine Comedy vs Winnie the Pooh Celebrity Death Match review because my sister was so sad that Pooh is not in the lead.

Really, of course, this is no contest; although I can understand the misguided believing there is a genuine argument here.

The trouble is the prism of time in which we are reviewing these additions to literature. One has been around for 700 years and the other for a mere 70. The genuine question that needs to be answered is: which of these works will stil More...

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Oct 28, 2011

Tolstoy rated it:

Celebrity deathmatch review in which Winnie the Pooh wins.

I know some here think I am unnecessarily wordy, so let me get straight to the point. Hamlet sucks.

[Editor's note to these recently discovered papers. Tolstoy tries really REALLY hard to leave it at that, but he can't. And thus Tolstoy continues...]

As I wrote some time ago now:

None of Shakespeare’s characters shows, in such a striking fashion, the playwright’s - I don’t want to say inabili More...

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Jul 04, 2011

Janehoward rated it:

I can't believe anyone rated Winnie the Pooh less than a golden star studded 5.
I have to take issue with them.
No, I'm not sneezing, I said ISSUE!
I laugh so much at every reading of Winnie the Pooh that my children banned me from reading it to them. It was impossible to know what was happening, they said, because I would be choking with laughter.

Why would that stop a mother?

I read how Eyeore lost his tail to the man in my life. We both collaps More...

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May 10, 2011

Charlene rated it:

I can't believe anyone rated Winnie the Pooh less than a golden star studded 5.
I have to take issue with them.
No, I'm not sneezing, I said ISSUE!
I laugh so much at every reading of Winnie the Pooh that my children banned me from reading it to them. It was impossible to know what was happening, they said, because I would be choking with laughter.

Why would that stop a mother?

I read how Eyeore lost his tail to the man in my life. We both collapsed in laughter, ba More...

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Mar 20, 2011

Benji rated it:

When you first look at the title of Winnie the Pooh and see the cover with a stuffed bear that talks on it, you may dismiss it as a children's book. But the tale of a bear and his friend having adventures in a forest is quite a good story.
This book also has a framing devise of a kid who can’t sleep named Christopher Robin. He can’t fall asleep so he goes down to his dad and he tells him these stories about his stuffed animal, Winnie the Pooh and his adventures in his land called the hu More...

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Feb 14, 2011

Maggie rated it:

I've always known Winnie-the-Pooh as a character on a video tape that I watched when I was young, and when I found it in the iBooks app on my iTouch, I was surprised that he actually appeared in a book first. Reading it cleared up several of my misconceptions:

1. Owl is not as clever as I remember him to be, he just pretends to be clever.
2. Rabbit is not as irritating as I thought he was. In fact he is clever.
3. All the animals are actually toys.
4. Tigger, my favouri More...

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Dec 02, 2010

Jim rated it:

Why is a sixty five year old man reading Winnie-the-Pooh? Well, for starters, Apple gave me a copy with the purchase of my iPad, and I'd never read it as a child. When I opened the book, I discovered why they had. It is beautifully illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard, and the colors are so vibrant that they show off Apple's product very, very nicely. As I continued, I became somewhat intrigued with the story of Pooh, and all the characters in the Hundred Acre Woods.

Milne's writing More...

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Aug 08, 2010

Benji rated it:

I love this book. It is interesting to always go back to the origins of our most iconic fitional cultural figures. Sometimes, like Mickey Mouse, they change a lot -- Disney gradually sanitized Mickey so much, that he became so boring and predictable he had to introduce Donald Duck in order to have a character with problems and psychoses, handling problems the wrong way. That allowed Disney to have a show where a character shows personal growth (or not). It's important! But originally Mickey w More...

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Jan 13, 2010

Lydia rated it:

I've just finished reading this book aloud to my 4 year old niece. It's provided some quality aunt/niece time and given us more than a few giggles.

One of the things that makes these story so precious is the simple, pure innocence that each story has. I remember reading these stories as a child and playing "Winnie-the-Pooh" (I was always Eeyore). My cousins used to play "Pooh sticks" in a stream that was close to their home.

My favorite story out of t More...

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Sep 27, 2009

Patricia rated it:

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Mar 09, 2009

Wayne rated it:

I wonder whether this book would have lasted so long if not for the illustrations of E.H.Shepard.
They are truly excellent.
And so much a part of the book's success I wonder if they can now be ever untangled.

I came to this book through the illustrations, portions of the stories and the number of children in my classes who loved to borrow the books from me and from the library.

I decided to read it finally because I am doing a second reading of the superb parody o More...

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Jun 30, 2008

Jeffrey rated it:

If you haven't read Milne, and I don't care what age you are or you intellectual or socioeconomic status, read the-Pooh. I love the-Pooh. He's so Seussian, so Andersenian, so Barriean, so Brownian, so . . . You get the point. If you don't want to read these stories, read them to your kids. Don't have kids? Read them to your nieces and nephews. None of them? Grab a kid on the street, sit 'em down and read. Just make sure you've got mom or dad's permission. No jail sentences, please. Enjoy!

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