Fairy Tales
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My favourite fairy tale is Sleeping Beauty. Here's this girl, born with a silver spoon, fairies queue up to bless her with all manners of virtues and physical beauty, put to sleep just by a small little prick, woken up with a kiss by a heroic prince, the end.
I hate Beauty and The Beast, however, also The Frog Prince and The Golden Ball. The idea of being forced to endure the company of someone one doesn't wish to have really gets my goat.
Maybe some deductions can be made about the person that I am by looking at those fairy tales but I know that fairy tales do not come true. And you?
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i like snow white and 7 dwarves...the dwarves are so cute!
rapunzel kinda disgusted me when i was younger...how can anyone has hair that long thick and strong...like a rope???
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tHe BeSt aNd MosT bEaUtiFuL tHinGs iN tHe wOrLd cAnnOt bE sEEn oR tOuChEd. tHeY mUsT bE fELt wItH tHe hEaRt... -
my favourite fairy tale was he-man and the masters of the universe...
then was mask.. and centurions.
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What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. -
Actually Rapunzel scares me, how does it feel to have a man climbing using your hair as a rope? Ouch, baby. I forget why the witch kept Rapunzel in the tower, for amusement?
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okay okay, no favourites, i think they're all just normal stories.
took all of the stories with a pinch of salt....
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What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. -
Dragon ball?=p
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To luf someone is nothing, to be luf by someone is something, to be luf by the one you luf is everything..... -
call me silly, but i didn't know He-man, MASK, centurions, dragon-ball are fairy tale!?
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Iamsilly
Haha! That is what I thought...I think I like Pinnochio and Cinderella..cos there is a moral to the story...
I will only believe in Fairy Tales if my Prince ever find me and we live happily ever after -
my fav. fairy tales... snow white..
coz thatz the first tales i know.. my mother told me the story.. and i was like.. "wow..mother!! i wanna be the prince"
hahahah..
rion- i like the idea of yours.. on living happily ever after... very child-like.. -
I also like all fairy tales....
Beauty and the Beast is my favorite one tho... =P -
I thought the "Little Prince" was quite a nice fairy tale to read... It has so much depth but so funny.. Unfortunately, I read it when I was 25 years old.. My favourite would be Cinderella, The Shoemaker and the Elves, and the Emperor's New Clothes...
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I like Wizard of Oz & Alice In Wonderland.
Find both very surreal, esp. the latter. I can relate to it coz sometimes I do get dreams so real that I wake up remembering everything clearly. This deja vu feeling....
And both stories had very interesting characters! Boy..would I like to have a pair of magic slippers or meet the Queen of Hearts
& the Mad Hatter.... And The Magic Piper(?) where he led all the children in town away for not getting paid for his getting rid of the mice. Talk about getting your revenge! Enid Blyton's The Faraway Tree & The Wishing Chair had me mesmerized too! Favourite of all times!
Prodigal>> Little Prince? What's it about?
Heard of Little Princess, The Prince & the Pauper & The Happy Prince... but Little Prince? Care to tell the story?
Everyone altogether now:-
"We're off to see the Wizard..the Wizard..the
wonderful Wizard of Oz....." -
The Little Prince? Got funny meh? I liked it a lot, and its still one of my favourite books, but I didn't find it funny though. Even a bit sad.
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Hi Jubilee,
"The Little Prince" is a fairy tale children book written recently, and it deals with various issues, and you should read the book and see the pictures drawn on the book. Some stuff may seem trivial at the first glance, but you see the depth later. It is difficult to explain the story to you. You have to read it to see for yourself.
Yes, you mentioned "Alice in Wonderland", which is one of my all-time favourites and I have read the original version of "Alice in Wonderland" and "Thru the Looking glass". For some of you who might not know, Lewis Carroll is a mathematician who specialized in geometry, and he encoded a lot of wierd geometry in his book which is still worth of study and think about. For example, the chess board is using a concept in pure maths called Banach spaces. You can read that in the story, in a subtle fashion.
I recommend another children book entitled "Flatland" written by Abbott, and it is about how a 2-dimensional being encounters a 3-dimensional being.. It is quite funny, and for those who are interested in geometry... -
Prodigal >>>
The Little Prince must have been interesting
and different enough for you, an adult, to like it. I'll go check it out to see for myself. Thanx! -
The Little Prince!
Great stuff.. hiakz... spent my sec school days musing over the book....
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What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. -
I dun know if you call this a fairy tale, but I was once a Roald Dahl fan went I was young, love "The BFG"(Big Friendly Giant) best.
I also like Anderson's fairy tales, read the big blue book of fairy tales, the big red book of fairy tales, the big....ok I read the whole series by the time I was 10...kekeke, always read them in class, thus my poor results.
hmm...read quite a bit of Enid Blyton too that time...but I guess, I grew out of it...now I read more mags...*laffs* -
I remember somebody recommended The Little Prince to me, but I forgot to heed it. Is it the same little prince who's actually a statue and he stands on a pedestal overlooking the city?
From all stories, it seem that Cinderella is the one that is often blasted with comments like "So what is the moral of the strory, sweep enough floors and you'll marry a prince?" and the use of a derogatory term "Cinderella complex". Wait till they scrutinize Sleeping Beauty, she doesn't even sweep the floor.
Speaking of which, I remember reading that actually fairy tales did not have happy endings. Sleeping Beauty married her prince and ended up being a depressed mother of a brood of brats and keeping the castle for her adulterous charming prince husband. It was said that at that time people believe in exposing children to harsh realities of life as early as possible. Only when HC Andersen or Grimm Bros and Disney want to retell the stories were the sad endings clipped off and we had "happily ever after".
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Maya>>
Thought that fairy tale was called The Happy Prince, the one with his statue on the pedestal ??? Geez...all these stories about princes and princesses is making me confused!
For some really different versions of all the fairy tales we know...try reading this series of books called Politically Correct Fairy Tales (or so I think it's called. Can't remember exactly!) Now that's what I called funny...updated & very PC! Had some good laughs when I read them.
Callan>>>
Mags like FHM??!!
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My fav is The Shoe Maker and the Elves. Dunno why, just like it. At first thought of Jack and the Beanstalk, but think the former is better...
Hv the same comments about Mask, Transformer, Dragon Ball, etc. They are not fairy tales plssss.....
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Whens the end coming? Like asif I care..... -
Jubilee
Ooops. Yeah, all those princes princesses are confusing me. The Little Prince is not equal to the Happy Prince, I've checked. Glad i did this thread, a lot of books recommendation =)
bochup
the shoemaker and the elves is funny, giggles
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Hee,
Fairy tales are all good in their own ways.
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Well MayaJade and Jubilee and the rest of the people whom I fail to mention,
Actually, I am presently reading a book which seemed like a children book, entitled "The Tao of Pooh" and "The Te of Piglet" by Benjamin Hoff. It is quite funny but in depth in explaining Taoist philosophy, especially, I have heard from a friend that a spoof is written about it called "The Pooh Perplex".... Somehow, I feel that it is very line with the "Little Prince"...
Fairy tales are what gives us hope and dreams.... -
Sigh! I must be living another life. You guys have mentioned so many fairy tales, but I just can't remember any. Ha ha, maybe Jack and Beanstalk!
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Sigh! I must be living another life. You guys have mentioned so many fairy tales, but I just can't remember any. Ha ha, maybe Jack and the Beanstalk!