I am always attracted by those tittles of books which I am familiar with. Therefore, I borrow “Shrek’’, this book. Certainly, everyone knows Shrek since its movie, it has four episodes. I actually thought Shrek was an original story at first, because it is a parody film, which targeting other films adapted from numerous children’s fantasies. However, it is also based on a fairy tale. I want to read this original version of movie; I could be more realized about it.
The plot of this book is quite similar with movie, but only the half part. It is a quite weird story; it does not like a fairy tale at all. Its vocabulary, character, and ending are quite different from normal fairy tale. The vocabularies, they are very difficult to read by me. The main character, Shrek and the prince are terrible monster. The ending, it is just Shrek and prince get married, and live a horrible life. It is unusual! Although the adaption movie is quite a strange fairy tale, the original story is more even. I think the writer of this book tried to satirize something, but I cannot figure out what exactly he satirized. He wrote a crazy story and created some crazy character, I think he tried to write a black comedy or something. Since he wrote it in the late 80’s, it was not conservative time likes before, so I think it may just a black comedy in fairy tale.
I love the movie of this story; it is quite interesting and inspiring. Though, I do not like the original version at all. It is just too strange, and makes no sense. By the way, the vocabularies of this book had tortured very much when I was reading it. I still cannot realize why the writer put these difficult words to torture us.