
13 Follower
I have to admid first that I only read 3 of the stories, however I feel this is enough. Everyone seems to like this collection and I'm not that sure why. Well, it kind of is a collection of tales for our cynic society. The first story I read, the title story, was just kind of depressing without really making a comment about either society nor the original fairy tale. The beauty and the beast one was just really problematic, and I don't often say that, but the narrator assuming it is hard for a widowed father not to molest his daughters and the protagonist not loving the beast because he is decent and doesn't rape her just totally feels wrong. And it isn't even satirical or anything, maybe I just don't get it, but: why??? The monkey paw retelling was just plain boring, which is saying a lot about a story with a disfigured corpse running around. How isn't this even interesting or at least really weird? This didn't even have a particular good style of writing. The only reason to go on with this would be to rant about it, but I can do enough of that with the stories I read. Really not my taste.
4. Sept. 2022
I have to admid first that I only read 3 of the stories, however I feel this is enough. Everyone seems to like this collection and I'm not that sure why. Well, it kind of is a collection of tales for our cynic society. The first story I read, the title story, was just kind of depressing without really making a comment about either society nor the original fairy tale. The beauty and the beast one was just really problematic, and I don't often say that, but the narrator assuming it is hard for a widowed father not to molest his daughters and the protagonist not loving the beast because he is decent and doesn't rape her just totally feels wrong. And it isn't even satirical or anything, maybe I just don't get it, but: why??? The monkey paw retelling was just plain boring, which is saying a lot about a story with a disfigured corpse running around. How isn't this even interesting or at least really weird? This didn't even have a particular good style of writing. The only reason to go on with this would be to rant about it, but I can do enough of that with the stories I read. Really not my taste.
4. Sept. 2022






