I've gotten back into heavy reading again recently, and I'm looking for specific suggestions: I love fairy tales/adult fairy tales. I adore the Grimm tales, I love Hans Christian Anderson, and I read a fantastic collection a couple of summers ago that I can't, for the life of me, remember the name of. It was all retellings of Grimm fairy tales, but with a seriously gruesome twist to them all. I believe the title was a play on Snow White and Rose Red--Andrea, John lent it to me so you guys might have it. I would be seriously indebted to you if you could find out the name of it for me, as I'd like to buy a copy for myself.
Yesterday I bought a couple of books--one is a collection of adult fairy tales by AS Byatt (I adore her writing, and
Possession was one of the most fantastic novels I've ever read) called
The Djinn in the Nightengale's Eye, and the other was Nabokov's
Pale Fire (as somebody in
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bookshare asked me if I'd ever read it since I love HoL, but she felt that she couldn't get into HoL because "she felt like it had already been done before" in
Pale Fire). Since I love Nabokov, I decided it should be a worthwhile read. It looks to me like the faux academia is the only similar part of PF and HoL, and plenty of fiction novels are doing/have done that sort of thing, so I doubt I'll see the same thing she did. It looks like KPL has a fair collection of fairy tales/adult fairy tales, so I'm really just looking to see if anybody on my flist has any specific suggestions, as that's what I feel like devouring at the moment. And by "adult" I don't mean sex, I mean "seriously disturbing and certainly not meant for children."
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