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The Little Prince
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In a grimy underground locked public toilet The Little Prince wakes slowly, he’s been out cold for hours. He’s bleeding from a gash on his upper arm. He finds he is chained by leg irons to the wall. There is another person sharing his predicament. It’s a bear, also chained to the opposite wall. In the center of the floor is the corpse of what appears to be donkey in a pool of blood. Near the corpse are a gun, a tape recorder and a saw.
“Grownups are very strange,” said the Little Prince to himself, sadly.
“Grownups are very strange,” said the Little Prince to himself, sadly.
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October 9, 2007
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October 15, 2009
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May 6, 2021
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Oct 15, 2009 04:57PM
Paul, you are being extremely generous. When I was in high school, I tried to read this in French. I did fine with Moliere and Camus, but couldn't make it through a children's classic. I couldn't read it in English either.
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This one lives on my "total crap" gr shelf.
Hi Ruth - you're right, but I can't go one-starring all my adolescent favourites...it feels too Freudian or something.
Paul...I hated this book...really!
I hope you appreciated my rewrite then! This concludes my trilogy of reviews of beloved children's favourites (the others were Winnie the Pooh and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny).
Fortunately, I didn't read those two. But I can honestly say that your rewrite is a faithful representation of this book. I can't understand why it has all this hype.
Well, he
was
a pretty decent aviator.
"Well, he was a pretty decent aviator"Don't tell me that I have to stand the hype whenever a "pretty decent aviator" writes a children's book.
Jim wrote: "Well, he was a pretty decent aviator."Unfortunately, if you're an aviator, people only tend to remember your last flight.
I'd definitely saw off my own arm if I were stuck in a room with you.
you want to see what I say about Winnie the Pooh.
Nice one! This would have been a much more interesting story to begin with.
they should remake the movie scene for scene but replace the humans with characters from the best loved childrens' stories. On second thoughts, perhaps they shouldn't.
I've read the book again later in my life, after having lived some more, and it made a real difference how I judged the book. Maybe it would be the same for you.
it's possible, but I do think it's a bit to cute for me these days. Although I still like Donovan...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMg20...
...and he's pretty cutesy.
This review leads me to the conclusion that, like many people today, the reviewer has no use for allegory and not much of a frame of reference for being alive. Oh well.
I know this reviewer personally and that is so true.
Your version of the book is not only better than the original because it is shorter ... but also because it has hardly any allegory in it. If allegory is Greek for "noodle soufflé".
Paul, does what you've done to your Inner Child make you a paedophile? I just want to know. You unconscionable blackguard, sir.
Right now I don't have the spare cash to employ the right therapist to divine the correct response, so I declare the question moot.
So as usual it's a funding problem. I might have known.
Manny, it was rather unkind of you to call attention to this wretched esprit again. Couldn't you have commented on one of my better efforts?
I only just stumbled on it for the first time last night! My first impulse was to nuke Nottingham, but my Inner Child told me that that would be an Inappropriate Response and we should just shower you with love and affection. It's possible that our compromise solution was less than ideal.
My inner child is now completely traumatized beyond the point of therapeutic intervention. If you skewer Bambi, I may have to take time out from society as a whole. Is my ex paying you?
well, you got to tell me who your ex is. Lotta people pay me for different stuff.
Paul wrote: "well, you got to tell me who your ex is. Lotta people pay me for different stuff."You’re killin’ me, Smalls
Your pastiche is way better than the original - it's actually funny, for one thing. They should include it in all printed versions of 'The Little Prince' to promote sales
thanks.... I should contact the publishers...
Being a Cult Classic just put too much weight on this sweet little thing. I'm reminded of Dorothy Parker's review of "Winnie the Pooh" from her time as Constant Reader for the New Yorker. "Constant Reader fwowed up."
it was a bit saccharine for me.
"Now of course today I think there's a very fascistic thing under The Little Prince. I think there's a kind of SS totalitarian sentimentality in there somewhere...."I can't quite put my finger on it, but -- I can just imagine a beautiful SS man loving The Little Prince." -- André Gregory, My Dinner with André
His next line: "I don't know why, but there's something wrong with it -- It stinks."
might be the one thing I like about that movie....
it was a bit saccharine for me.
Have you seen the 1974 film adaptation? It has great cast, Gene Wilder, Bob Fosse. Very well done.
that was dark i am 10 so dark to say
Oh buzz off, you sound like you haven't even read the book.
