Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) by J. M. Barrie
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Book Reviews of Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
Book Review: Better than I tought!
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm 52 yo and I bought this copy for my daughter. She is 14 and she loves the story. This edition is a very beautiful one, with nice pictures and a special type of paper. Really better than I tought.Book Review: Flying
Summary: 5 Stars
A beautiful presentation of one of the all time great stories. This is a book for any person of any age.Book Review: Peter Pan
Summary: 4 Stars
This was my first time reading Peter Pan, I have seen the Disney version, but it was many years ago. What I expected was a story mirroring the Disney film exactly. What I got was a story that I believe is not suitable for children (which is what I thought from the Disney version).
To start, the characters have deeply symbolic meanings. Peter, obviously does not want to grow up. His character was first inspired by the author himself. Barrie's experiences with the Davies children (shown in the movie Finding Neverland) was his inspiration and his goal in live, to remain a child. Hook, through my knowledge, was inspired by Mr. Davies, who did not approve of Barrie playing with his children. The character of Tinker Bell is hard to figure out the inspiration or the meaning behind. I thought that her saying "ass" to all of the characters she disapproved of was somewhat inappropriate for what is supposed to be a children's book.
Some situations in the novel struck me emotionally. The scene where Tinker Bell is dying because she saved Peter by drinking Hook's poison shows that no matter how mad someone can be toward another person, you can always count on them. Then Peter calls out to the reader and asks if they believe in fairies is a representation of Peter's friendship toward Tinker Bell. I felt that all of the mean things that Tinker Bell had said about Wendy had never happened because of the emotions that Barrie portrays through the words on the page.
Overall, I loved the storyline and everything else about the novel except for the nasty language of Tinker Bell. That is why I give J.M. Barrie's classic Peter Pan, 4 stars.
Book Review: So long as children are gay and innocent and heartless
Summary: 4 Stars
Tots already ruined by today's sanitization of children's literature will enjoy Peter Pan very little. Like Alice and her Wonderland, this book can be a bit dark and moody and -- gasp! not politically correct. (Political correctness the most moronic bit of fluff and propaganda to have ever wormed into literature.) It can also be fun and witty and just a tad wistful.
But those children and adults who truly understand what it means to be gay and innocent and heartless, will find this to be one of the more fascinating books to have come out of the Victorian/Edwardian tradition. Tinted lightly by the author's deep emotional disturbance, there is a frantic poignancy to Peter's youth and a pseudo-sexual subtext that will fascinate the careful reader, making this a stunning book for all age groups.
This particular version of the story Peter and Wendy (the original and more appropriate title) is lavishly illustrated in a delicate hand. I highly recommend it.
Book Review: Peter Pan
Summary: 4 Stars
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan appeals to both the young as well as the young at heart. A story about a boy who will never grow up, it addresses the fleeting and "heartless" quality of youth as well as the loss of innocence and imagination that comes with growing up. There is a fair amount of symbolism here, mostly self-explanatory: Peter represents youth and innocence, Wendy is the mother figure, Hook represents growing up and becoming corrupted, and the fairy Tinkerbell represents jealousy. Though occasionally dark and sinister, Peter Pan allows people of all ages to catch a glimpse of the magical world of Neverland, which exists in the minds of all children but may never be revisited by grown-ups. The magical quality of this book is timeless, and it reminds us all of a time in our lives when the Neverland was all that mattered. Peter Pan allows us to go back any time we want, "because the island is out looking for us...it is only thus that anyone may sight those magic shores."