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Summary: Little Prince - the book has kaleidoscopic meanings
Review: The Little Prince usually is the first book that children read. At least it was my first book.
The history that the narrator meets a prince in the Sahara desert looks like simple, but Saint-Exupery became it in a wonderful tale, an enormous success. However, the most interesting characteristic of this book is the fact that if you read it for the second time you will discover new meanings for the same old phrase. Every time you read it you will discover it.
"What is essential is invisible to the eye" has meant something totally different from what it means to me now. It simply changed as I have changed from the first time I have read it. It is like to discover new ways of doing the same thing. You can see how you have changed because the meaning of what you are reading is changing from the first time.
This is a book that you have to read it each two or three years to find out another meanings for the book as well as for your life.
Everybody should try this worth journey, should give for you the chance to assess the life and the values.
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Summary: 20 now and still love this book
Review: I first read "le Petite Prince" in my high school French class and was blown away. I am 20 now and I still love how each time one reads this enchanting tale, they are able to discover a new meaning in each chapter. I have a child of my own now and this will be read to him in hopes that he too will grow and enjoy the simple pleasures this book provides.
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Summary: Condescending
Review: When shakespeare sat down to write Romeo and Juliet he didn't say, "well, lets write a play about how love is stronger than death". Had he done that he wouldn't have produced Romeo and Juliet since he would be too preoccupied with getting his "deep message" across (so deep that it can be expressed in a sentence ... ), instead of writing a good play. Saint-Exupery did the exact opposite - it is evident that this book was written as some sort of philosophical manifesto on how adults do not appreciate life enough, as children do. The characters and plot are all secondary to that idea. The reader is reminded at every turn of this "deep message", the end result being that the message and the book become vulgar, over-used, "in-your-face". It personally bothered me a lot (and isn't this review personal, after all?). I gave it 3 stars instead of 1 because Saint-Exupery obviously had a great talent for conjuring up lovely scenes - such as the famous one in which the prince asks him to draw him a sheep. But these scenes cannot act as an excuse to the endless preachings of this book. Did the author really give so little credit to his potential readers while writing this? ...
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Summary: many sights to see...
Review: 'The Little Prince' is one of the few books that are in theory children's books, but are mostly read by grown-ups because of their simple, touching philosophy. If there were more books like this one, the world would be a better place.
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: The story's pretty good, but it might be a little too deep or somewhat boring for the average young child. The messages the book sends are rather opaque, which may be why adults like it so much. I know a lot of adults like "The Little Prince", but I have yet to hear a preteen say they liked it all that much - most of them, I think, find it boring.
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Summary: Inspiring for all
Review: This little book is certainly one of the best-known and most popular in French literature. Though at heart a children's story, it is rightly considered a classic in its own sense and is even found within respected French literary anthologies. Its author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, is also famous for other works of fiction ("Vol de Nuit" etc.). Like the narrator in "The Little Prince," St-Exupery was a pilot as well. He apparently crashed or was shot down flying as a WWII pilot towards the end of the war and was never found. His likeness, along with that of the little prince and his pet lamb and the famous drawing of the elephant in the boa-constrictor, are all on the French 50 Franc note.
The story can basically be split into two parts: The first part is the short introduction dealing with the narrator and his view of the world when he was a child and how adults could never understand the real meaning of things or perceive truth in the world--only the superficial and the usual. This is generally one of the main ideas of the book; "blessed are the children...". The rest of the book is the story of the little prince, whom the narrator discovers in the Sahara when he is trying to fix his downed airplane and is in fear of his life. The narrator and the reader slowly come to know the prince's story and learn about friendship, love and truth in a touching way. My favorite parts are those dealing with the prince's relationship with his beloved rose left on his planet and the prince's relationship with the wise little fox, who offers the prince his philosophical secret on life.
I have not read the book in translation so I cannot comment how this or other translations compare. Though considered a book for children, the French can still be a bit demanding if you want to try it in the original.
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Summary: an amazing and lucky realization
Review: I have just finished this book (not an hard stuff) and I came here to see some reviews, but with my disappoint I wasn't able to find one really interesting or close to my impressions.
Maybe is not useless to say that is not a child book, but one for the child we were. I saw in many newsgroup that this is considered by many peoples one of the most important and formative book ever read, together with books like Hermann Hesse's Demian or Dostoevsky's Idiot. The great of this book is its great emotional impact (tears flowed on my face) that permit to remove your adult shelter, and to taste the simply warm pleasure of beauty and grace. I love this book for the way I felt reading it : I felt first of all human, a living person, without protection, and ready to be exposed to life, in good and in evil, like a child. This book is not amazing for the "insightful" messages we should analyse after read it, I didn't. I don't want to analyse, divide, decompose or try to understand in a rational way (remember from what the word "RATIOnal" come) what that is a message for the heart : try an olistic approach instead.
Enjoy the calm beauty of what is nice and lightning for itself.
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Summary: A tale which grow with you
Review: It doesn't matter how old you are now.
Read this, keep it and read again.
Every time you read, you'll find something you didn't realize before.
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Summary: Lovely for everyone
Review: I got the CD on Monday 15th, 2001 and listened to it right that evening. It was like Richard Gere was sitting next to me and telling me the story with all his friends supporting him. All actors were great and made a wonderful story. A gift to everyone.
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Summary: Can One Survive in a World Without Love?
Review: "The Little Prince" is the heart-warming story of a child in search of happiness on a planet without love. -- I bought this book as a gift and I am very pleased. I found it interesting even for an adult. The book is recommened for 9-12 year olds but is fine for a little older child. I highly recommened this book. *****
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