Reviews

Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as F.T.-Pa by Jack Zipes

milliebm22's review

informative fast-paced

3.5

filipmagnus's review

4.0

I enjoyed my time with this short collection of essays on fairy tales and myths as penned by Jack Zipes. Some were more interesting than others, especially the Beauty and the Beast one, and the Rumplestiltskin one. I recommend this to anyone and everyone interested in fairy tales and what they may say about society and ourselves.

kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review

3.0

The first three to four essays in this book are quite good. The last few are so-so. If you have read other work by Zipes, you can skip the chapter about Disney, for you have heard it before.

However, the book is worth reading simply for its discussion about Beauty and the Beast as well as the Rumpstilskien. Zipes does a wonderful and conniving job of tying the Grimms' version of the tale the advent of industrialization.

l0ners's review

3.0

Not quite what I was hoping for but oh well.