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I read this in high school. I don't remember enough of what I thought about this to give it a star rating. I don't think I liked it, but I think I did find some parts of it funny. I think generally I didn't like the idea of rewriting fairy tales to be more appropriate and see it as a form of censorship, but of course there are problems with the original stories and I think readers have to be aware of that when reading them. I also read part of the Politically Correct Christmas stories, but I got
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I think this book would have been more enjoyable had I read each story several months apart. As it was I found myself bored with the repetitive humour in the series of stories. I also find it funny that to be politically correct (tongue in cheek or not)all the women have to be ultra feminists, the animals all have to have equal rights, and the men all stay the same exploitative scum that have been passed off as "the hero" for generations.
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Did not live up to its name and other reviews.
Oct 11, 2012
Becca
marked it as to-read
Jan 29, 2013
Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!}
rated it
liked it
Shelves:
books-i-read-in-2016,
humour,
three-stars,
mount-tbr-2016,
fiction,
ymmv,
faerie-tale,
satire,
short-stories
Mar 30, 2014
Beth
marked it as retelling-anthologies
Jun 10, 2014
Puddlyduck
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
comedy,
fairy-tales
