The Brother's Grimm

The German brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm spent years collecting and researching folk tales early in the 19th century. They published Children's and Household Tales in 1812, a collection which became known as "Grimm's Fairy Tales." The collection included what are now some of the world's most famous stories, including Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin. Wilhelm married in 1825, but Jacob never wed and for most of his life lived in his brother's home. The brothers also began a German historical dictionary, the enormous Deutsches Worterbook, which ran to 16 volumes when it was finally completed by others in 1954.Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/the-brothers-grimm#ixzz1AJNxsJUK

I borrowed this book (Grimm's Grimmest) from a certain Cafe that I am really, really starting to like. This book is very gruesome, mostly because it's an English translation of the original stories that the brothers Grimm had collected. So far I've found out that they have 209 stories, I'm not sure but there might be more. Most of the Grimm Fairy tales that we read are watered down or edited in a way that it'll be suitable for children who aren't accustomed to violence. But this book's stories are not watered down. Not all end in a happy ending, and those that do are still gruesome in the beginning and middle part. Gives a new exaggeration to "sunshine after the rain".

But even with all that I really do like it. My reasons are simply because they're a little bit like history, fictional they may be. These stories were probably collected from the common folk who tell tales around the fire to make things exciting. These stories really are amazing, to me at least, they might not be that way for others.