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White Deer (School & Library Binding)

by James Thurber (Author)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, but slight, Feb 18 2003
By Glen Engel Cox "www.engel-cox.org" (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The White Deer (Paperback)
A little fantasy story by Thurber, not silly enough to be really funny, yet definitely not a serious story, either. If it had been written within this decade, it might have had that incredibly useless label post-modern thrown on it, as Thurber was one of those writers who delighted in wordplay that acknowledges the presence of the reader. A king and his three sons--two hearty hunters like their father and the youngest a musician and poet--corner a white deer who changes into a beautiful princess. The princess cannot remember her name or family, so she sets the three sons on quests. The question in the castle is whether the princess has been enchanted to forget her name, or is she a deer that has been enchanted to resemble a princess. Everything becomes clear in the end, like all good fairy tales, and Thurber gets to have a lot of fun getting there. Hopefully, you will too. I found this to be a little too similar to the humor of Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth for me to enjoy it wholeheartedly.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Most excellent story, May 31 2001
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This review is from: The White Deer (Paperback)
A real winner. This book is poetic and lovely. I couldn't ask for more.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Has Its Moments, Feb 12 1999
By Eugene G. Barnes (Dunn Loring, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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It's obvious Thurber lavished a lot of attention on this fantasy about a mythical king with a mythical name and a myth-like story. The craftsmanship in the writing is unusually good, poetry and all. It's ultimately the content that is the major problem -- a long story with lots of parallel events, the way a real Brothers Grimm story might proceed. Doesn't seem to have much of an ending. The character of the king is striking, if you want your king to look like Brian Blessed in the first Black Adder on TV. Nice touch giving the king his editor's expression at the New Yorker: "Done AND done." But I have to admit, I was glad when it was.
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