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Title: Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow ISBN: 0-380-78622-2 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Good and bad
Comment: Silver Birch, Blood Moon mixes good re-tellings with horrible ones. It has stories that are funny, evil, good, terrible, brand new, re-told, and many others. I don't feel like I wasted my time reading it but there are better out there. I guess it is the same with all mixed books. I enjoyed a lot of the stories, despised about as many. I loved the re-telling of The Little Mermaid in The Sea Hag, but didn't aprove of The Glass Cofin which was just depressing. It was a good book and was enjoyable. I recomend it.
Rating: 2
Summary: A sad, sad thing
Comment: Somebody made a grave mistake! I was surprised by the lack of good stories in this one as compared to the other dark fairy-tale collections by these editors, all of which were endlessly satisfying to me. This book I bought on a whim before I had read it....what a waste of money! Terribly dissapointing, although there are decent parts in the book, hidden in a nook or cranny if you look enough. Save yourself the money and rent this from the library if you don't believe me...maybe you'll end up agreeing with me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Angela Carter would be pleased
Comment: The FIFTH in the series of altered faery tales, it's a heckuva good time. Evidently a modern fantasy trend, Datlow and Windling can't put these out fast enough; I believe there's at least 2 following this. These tales are good reads in their own right, but add the satisfying pop-pyschology crunch of being able to dissect the original tale through its modern and fractured counterpart and you've got a great read. While again, these are being turned out like organic vegetarian pizzas in Hell-A, I never felt cheated or subjected to a formula. These authors are varied in language and message, even if some themes are awfully similar. The worst that can be said about this particulair series is that it may have a feminist slant at times, being written mostly (16 out of 20) by women, and likely FOR, women, screw it. If you've got a problem with it, go grab something that Mike Whelan drew the cover art for. While some of the themes are a bit heavy, (domestic violence / female oppression in "Kiss Kiss") overall, it's pretty light-hearted, and dang it (can I say it again), it makes you think in an easy, cerebral but not all-encompassing way about the folktales that shaped our imaginations and interesting modifications of them. Pick it up, and the rest, too. I'll warn you if, as is inevitable in fiction trends, it becomes overdone and heavy-handed.
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Title: Black Heart, Ivory Bones by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ISBN: 0380786230 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ISBN: 0380778726 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Black Thorn, White Rose by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ISBN: 0380771292 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Snow White, Blood Red by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ISBN: 0380718758 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Black Swan, White Raven by Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling ISBN: 0380786214 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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