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apochemu's review
3.0
I tried to read this out loud and didn't get very far. Then I downloaded the audio book on librivox read by Mark Smith and he did a fantastic job. For me, though, most of this book was hard to pay attention to. I found my mind wandering a lot and had no idea what was going on. The dialect is hard to listen to and decipher. Guess I didn't want to put the necessary effort in. But my kids seemed to like them ok and had better attention spans than me, lol. I think this book would be better if I had some nostalgia factor going for me, like my grandpa used to tell me the stories or something, but I'd never heard of them until I was an adult. So they were meh for me, and ok for the kids. It did bother me a bit to hear the n-word so much and I hope my kids didn't pick up on it. Hoping, and pretty sure, it went over their heads.
emlickliter's review
5.0
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris -- My life long obsession with folktales and my fascination with how they reveal things about culture may have started with these stories. My history professors in college asked me why I wanted to mess with childhood memories by claiming that the Grimm Brothers started both world wars through fanatical nationalism. But I think that stories like these are worth protecting and using to start really complicated discussions about who we are as human beings. And also these are better than Wiley Coyote and Road Runner, and you can fight me on that one! Happy Reading!
melrailey's review against another edition
5.0
I loved these stories. They capture so much about life - not just in the South but at the core of people.
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