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readerpants's review against another edition
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With enthusiastic jacket blurbs from both Lloyd Alexander and Philip Pullman, I had high hopes for this weird little Bookmobile find. Maybe it lost something in translation, but it was awfully disappointing. Most fairy-tale retellings flesh out the characters to make them more human and to increase our connection to them; this one made Puss in Boots more allegorical, preachy, stilted, and flat.
Its point was a Miltonic lesson about Satan lacking free will and therefore freedom despite his dynamism in comparison to people and God... straight from Paradise Lost, but without Milton's skill. Perhaps I don't have a strong enough appreciation of allegory. Either way, not a book that I would recommend to any young readers that I know.
Its point was a Miltonic lesson about Satan lacking free will and therefore freedom despite his dynamism in comparison to people and God... straight from Paradise Lost, but without Milton's skill. Perhaps I don't have a strong enough appreciation of allegory. Either way, not a book that I would recommend to any young readers that I know.
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