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Snow White 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Touchstone Catalog: Book Release date: 1996-05-30 Media: Paperback Number of pages: 192 Ean: 9780684824796 Book Isbn: 0684824795  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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| An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. |
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 Written on August 1, 2004 Summary: grimm, this isn't! my introduction to donald barthelme was his short stories. i learned of this book and dove right in. this was quite a romp! i feel for the other reviewers that may have felt that this was a faithful rendition of grimm classic. it certainly is not!! it is twisted and thought provoking. my favorite passages are the quiz and the end of part one, and the letter that jane (the evil stepmother) writes to a stranger in the phone book, mr. quistgaard. that truly makes you stop and think about the way things are today and how we insulate ourselves in our own plenum. in a rather strange way, it made me want to do the same thing! i know absolutely nothing about post-modernist literature. i don't even know what it means. what i do know is that barthelme creates and recreates his own personal universe with each story and book. each one unique and provocative. i have read that barthelme is the master. i can believe it.  Written on May 13, 2004 Summary: Don't Waste Your Time From the reviews I had read about this book, it was supposed to be an intellectual, highly appealing and enchanting updated version of a classic children's story in which the dwarves are not really dwarves but rather sexually charged men who each take their turns having sex with Snow White in the shower (and only the shower, never in a bed). Snow White is seeking her Prince Charming, whose name is Paul. The wicked stepmother, whose name is Jane, is out to get Snow White. And one of the "dwarves", Bill, doesn't like to be touched...by anyone. Other than that, there wasn't much else I understood about this book. It was a very disjointed book. The writing was stilted and had the feel of a foreigner speaking in a second language. The conversations were completely unrealistic and the voices in my head, while reading, kept on speaking in a mechanical drone; no expression or hint of emotions. Really, really, really, wasn't worth the three evenings I spent reading it. I would be interested in knowing if anyone else has read and understood this book, but I certainly would not recommend purchasing it! Written on May 11, 2004 Summary: Huh? After slogging through this book, I just have to say, HUH? I mean, I get it, but I guess I just don't think it's nearly as good as everyone else seems to think. I found the writing choppy, and the references weak, at best. I was expecting something that would surprise me, and I was disappointed to find this mess of a book. Written on March 2, 2004 Summary: Definitely not Walt Disney I have to admit that it took me quite some time to get into this version of _Snow White_. Batheleme's writing seemed too clever, too facile, too concerned with word play, too designed for the intellectual reader (not to be confused with the intelligent reader). I started to connect, but not entirely, with the far from fairy tale-like characters, who were more like people out of a Dashiell Hammett crime novel. Snow White, a sexy, femme fatale, with long black hair and a body that does not quit. Paul, hardly anyone's idea of a Prince Charming. He seemed incapable of rescuing her. The seven men with whom Snow White lived--who were they? No one could possibly believe that Snow White was merely their housekeeper. Jane, sort of, but not quite a wicked stepmother type, who could mix a mean cocktail. Batrthelme's cynical, fractured fairy tale is kind of fun, inventively written and diverting, but loveable and warmhearted? Absolutely not! Written on May 15, 2003 Summary: Post Modernism at its best EM Forster asked in his famous Aspects of the Novel why can't the novel invent a form less rigid and more suitable to its genius. I agree. So much of what is served up these days to the public is a waste of time and obviously exists simply for commercial purposes. Not Snow White. Here we have real literature with a capital L and here we have real imagination too. Based on the original tale, alert readers will love how a master writer converts the simple to the complex, the silly to the profound, and yet keeps us entertained as he goes. Oh, I know in this democratic era questions of elitism are de trop. But so what? Go ahead and read an elitist book. It won't hurt and you will have a lot of fun in the process. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 1996-05-30 | 2003-09-30 | 1990-01-01 | 2004-08-26 | 2001-02-15 | 1988-03-01 |
| Media | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 192 | 480 | 128 | 192 | 128 | 224 |
| Ean | 9780684824796 | 9780142437391 | 9780140178210 | 9780374529253 | 9780618083435 | 9780385240871 |
| Book Isbn | 0684824795 | 0142437395 | 014017821X | 0374529256 | 061808343X | 0385240872 |
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