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This book is highly overrated. It's a parade of banalities limping overloaded with bad planed metaphors in a delirium march. So many people like it? A brilliant example of the mass culture and good marketing.
I didn´t like this book the firt time i read it when 1 was 10 and the second time i read was good but in my opinion is not the best of the word
I totally understand why you feel this way, but it seems to me that the first time people read it, they don’t enjoy it, but after a while, it just makes sense. The first time I picked it up, it was upon my mom’s urging. She’d always told me that I should read this book because she loved it when she was a kid. I was a bit skeptical but eventually got my hands on it. As you may predict, by the fourth page I was over with it. I didn’t go any farther than that. Years later, I finally decided to read it again, and I thought it was the weirdest thing ever—until the end, that is. Since then, I’ve never looked upon childhood as something bad, but a gift that should never be forgotten. This is the best book I’ve ever read and I hold it dear to my heart. I just had to give it some time and it spoke to me. I think that this is a personal book and you learn from it differently than anyone else; the universality of this book is what makes it so special, while it’s lessons are unique. It truly changed my life.
I read this book for the first time recently and I was blown way by it. I thought it was incredible. It reminded me of "The Phantom Tollbooth" in some ways because it is a children's book, but it's also very much an every age book. It deals with universal questions about life and death that for such a small book and such a little prince--are remarkable to me. It also made me think of another book I love titled, "The Old Turtle and the Broken Truth"--if you haven't read that, you should try it out, too. I do think the story is very philosophical and if that's not your jam you might not like it. I almost cried at the end. I had to go out and buy a copy. I wondered why it had taken me 43 years to read this book. I always looked at the cover and thought, "I don't want to read a story about a little prince." That was pretty pathetic. ha! I think it's a timeless story that has the potential for changing a person's perspective on life. It teaches the reader what love is/means.
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This book is highly overrated. It's a parade of banalities limping overloaded with bad planed metaphors in a delirium march. So many people like it? A brilliant example of the mass culture and good marketing.
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I didn´t like this book the firt time i read it when 1 was 10 and the second time i read was good but in my opinion is not the best of the word
I love the book, try reading it from a philosophical point of view. One of my mottos in life is based on 'The little Prince';- You wont get very far, if you only walk in a straight line".
Try to work it out ;)
Try to work it out ;)
I totally understand why you feel this way, but it seems to me that the first time people read it, they don’t enjoy it, but after a while, it just makes sense. The first time I picked it up, it was upon my mom’s urging. She’d always told me that I should read this book because she loved it when she was a kid. I was a bit skeptical but eventually got my hands on it. As you may predict, by the fourth page I was over with it. I didn’t go any farther than that. Years later, I finally decided to read it again, and I thought it was the weirdest thing ever—until the end, that is. Since then, I’ve never looked upon childhood as something bad, but a gift that should never be forgotten. This is the best book I’ve ever read and I hold it dear to my heart. I just had to give it some time and it spoke to me. I think that this is a personal book and you learn from it differently than anyone else; the universality of this book is what makes it so special, while it’s lessons are unique. It truly changed my life.
I read this book for the first time recently and I was blown way by it. I thought it was incredible. It reminded me of "The Phantom Tollbooth" in some ways because it is a children's book, but it's also very much an every age book. It deals with universal questions about life and death that for such a small book and such a little prince--are remarkable to me. It also made me think of another book I love titled, "The Old Turtle and the Broken Truth"--if you haven't read that, you should try it out, too. I do think the story is very philosophical and if that's not your jam you might not like it. I almost cried at the end. I had to go out and buy a copy. I wondered why it had taken me 43 years to read this book. I always looked at the cover and thought, "I don't want to read a story about a little prince." That was pretty pathetic. ha! I think it's a timeless story that has the potential for changing a person's perspective on life. It teaches the reader what love is/means.
