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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER!!!!!
Review: I read this book in my 5th grade class last year, and I loved it!!! It was so wonderful and really made you think about life, death, and that the things that are really impoortant are invisable! I REALLY SUGGEST YOU READ THIS BOOK!!! It brings you to thinking about imaginary things that everyone dreams about (that are extremely real in this book). So live your biggest dream and READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: nothing is lost with time.
Review: One of my absolute favorites. This book is something you read as a child; it was magical and it held you in ways you could not understand. And there were so many things in it that seemed above your young head. But you think you get them at the time. You read it again when you're older.... and it's all the more magical. You understand - completely. Everyone should read this book at least twice.
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Summary: Simply unputdownable
Review: This is one of those lesser known books which falls in the must-read category. The books author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, was a WWII pilot from France. He wrote this book with two sets of readers in mind - the children and the adults. After reading this book the children should vow not to become like adults (which unfortunately they all end up becoming) and the adults sigh and hope they were children once again (which they unfortunately cannot become). The book evokes childish curiosity and selflessness while openly ridiculing adults (and rightly so). The book, illustrated by the author himself, is the story of an Airman's discovery in the desert of a small boy ('The Little Prince') from another planet. The Little Prince recounts his intergalactic travels where he meets kings, conceited men, drunkards, businessmen and lamplighters. All these 'types' of people have some characteristic or the other which the author uses to parody adults. According to Saint-Exupéry, all grown-ups fall in one of these categories. The Little Prince's stories only reinforce the Airman's view that all grown-ups are very odd and that they are only concerned with themselves. I read this book whenever I am feeling down and it never fails to lift my spirits up. Of course I moan the fact that I did not read this book when I was a child. Then I might have tried harder not to turn into this conceited, mechanical grown-up with meaningless pursuits.
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Summary: The Tale of The Rose Ruined This Book for Me
Review: I bought this book a few years ago and loved it. St. Ex was no doubt an interesting man. I adored his little rose and couldn't wait to read The Tale of the Rose. I just read it and I have deeper insight into this story that I'd have rather not seen. St. Ex was a philanderer. In the Little Prince, he refers to The Rose being sad because she is aware that he has been seeing other roses-- he did that throughout their marriage-- for almost the entire 13 years they were married. He was into conquoring The Rose as a Little Prince and basically forgetting about her except to get with her briefly-- less than 24 hours in some cases-- and then leave again. The Little Prince almost seems like a glaze-over and justification for St.Ex's ways. I gave it three stars because it's a sweet story. It's not somehow autobiographical as I had initially thought.
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Summary: A thought-provoking children's story to enjoy for a lifetime
Review: I am not sure how I can best explain this book, and how I can exprime the emotions it causes in me. I read it first a number of years ago in French, and ever since then it was been my staple gift for people - anyone who does not have a copy of The Little Prince, I promptly spend the nine dollars it costs me so that more people can understand its beauty. Its like I have a circle of effect around me in which everyone has read The Little Prince because of my influence.
I cannot praise it enough. It is a children's story with layers, and adults can enjoy the more philosophical portions of it. For a children's book, it is sad. I have read it out loud a number of times and I always choke up at the end, as well as my listener. The story is touching and memorable, melancholy but optimistic. And every time after you read it (especially if it is with your child), you can go out at night and look up at the stars and ask, "Has the sheep eaten the flower?" And you will see how this book can make everything change!
I cannot suplicate you enough to permit yourself the pleasure of reading this story!
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Summary: You make the story...
Review: This story is beautiful because it can be both cherished by a child and an adult, although most adults believe that they receive more out the story than a child. This is not true a child will see it one way while an adult will see it another. It is written in a style to where it can be seen in whatever direction one might want to interpret it, and even those who want to take it literally can as well and still find it a good story.
Overall it is an easy read maybe for an adult can read it within a day, its elegant and one won't find themsleves lost on what is being said. If one wants to find the deeper meaning must realize each character encounter is important, take a moment and relate it and how you may want to see them thats up to you.
I recommend this book.
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Summary: A book for grown-ups
Review: Antoine de Saint-Exupery's book is often thought to be a children's novel, and I admit, when my class and I started reading it, we all thought it was a bit below our level of reading. Nothing could be further from the truth. Saint-Exupery's tale shows what we all lost when we made the transition from child to adult, when we got involved in "matters of consequence" and stopped using our imaginations. I would highly reccommend this book to anyone who misses seeing the good in the world. This book showed me that innocence can still be found in such a world of corruption and violence, we just need to know where to look for it. If you have children, are around them, or are just a child at heart, this is a book that you need to read. It raises the question as to whether children are really cute and naieve, or if we as adults merely forgot to look at the drawing close enough. It is a tale of friendship, imagination, and love. After reading this book, I doubt anyone can look up at the stars and not smile.
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Summary: Human frailties exaggerated to absurdity
Review: It starts with a little boy trying to draw an elephant that has been swallowed by a giant snake. Everyone said his sketch looked like a hat, so instead of becoming an artist, the boy became a pilot. His plane crashes in the desert and as he tries to repair it, a little prince arrives and asks him to draw a sheep. The prince lives on a small asteroid, one of many that he can visit, and each one contains a person with an exaggerated human characteristic.
There is the one with a single flower, another with a King who rules the entire planetoid universe, and demands absolute obedience. However, he is very careful to never utter a command that cannot be obeyed, so he is in many ways a wise ruler. Another has only a conceited man, who believes all others admire him. There is a businessman on another, whose entire life is spent counting and adding the stars. A lamplighter, which has been given the order to light the lamp at dusk and extinguish it at dawn, is on another asteroid. Since the asteroid is small, the night only lasts a minute, so the lamplighter does nothing but light the lamp and then turn it off. A geographer resides on another, but all he does is write down what the explorers describe to him. He considers it beneath his station to actually examine the universe himself to see if it conforms to his maps. A drunk resides on another, and the reason he drinks is to forget his shame in drinking.
This is a delightful story, suitable for children and adults. Interwoven with the fantasy, there is a great deal of satire at human, especially adult foibles. Each of the inhabitants of an asteroid is a person with an exaggerated human weakness. While their world is physically very small, their minds are as well, and in the end, the main character learns much about what really matters in life.
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Summary: Serious? Which is more Serious?
Review: I've been told that this book is very valuable and from watching the movie 'Eloise', I just jump to the chance of buying this. Such a slim book for invoking deep thoughts. Simple language yet indepth meaning even if you don't have a clue who Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was (The Little Prince is thought to be a disguised autobigraphy).
Open with the tale of a child trying to communicate his thought to adults (his parents) by drawing a boa constrictor from outside and inside. How he had problem to explain it, his conclusion that adults need more explanation about things than children who knew them by heart and the ending of his artistic debut (this part was a witty one, makes you ask yourself, who are you? an ignorant adult, who needs much explanation, or a child, who understand things by heart).
And then, when this child grown to be a pilot (after cut from his artist one), he crashed his plane into a dessert. In the middle of nowhere, came a little child, in grand apparel like a prince, asking to draw him a sheep! Bewildered, he draw it, with a few attempts, since his only drawing ever was the boa constrictor. Then the tale of the little prince (the pilot named him because the child had never answer any questions he asked nor gave him any name) began.
There is one part about stars near the end which touch me so deeply though I don't really feel right about the little prince's decision in the end since it did not reflect the creativity by which he came to Earth.
Overall, read it and find what the really serious matters are in your life.
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Summary: A Book to Read for a Lifetime
Review: This book gets 6 stars! Antoine de SaintExupery, though writing at a level at which children can comprehend the plot, delves deep into a social and psychological discussion regarding the human experience. He has a profound understanding of the way 'adults' (modern society) incorrectly view the world, its citizens, and what they have to offer. Lessons taught by this book range from personal relationships to business, touching on the subjects of guilt, greed, power, and love. While all of these topics are thoroughly discussed, you never feel as if you're being lectured or hit over the head with symbolism. So much is buried between the lines that one reading of this book will not suffice to gain the infinite wisdom it possesses. Read it as a coming-of-age story for society: once every few years for the rest of your life. This simple, 96 page story about a little boy speaks volumes louder than you could imagine.
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