Björn recenserade Die Brüder Löwenherz av Astrid Lindgren
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Every time I read Brothers Lionheart, I'm amazed at how good it is. How much better, braver, harsher it is than it truly needs to be; it's a children's book, after all, but a children's book that never pulls its punches. Sure there are some plot elements that stretch your suspension of disbelief (then again, given Astrid Lindgren's own explanation of the plot, they make perfect sense), but even so, the brothers and their fight remains not just a good children's version of the typical fantasy Evil Overlord plot but one of the best versions of it, period.
German translation: Good, and adds a certain something simply by having the (quite obviously Hitler-inspired) Tengil's troups shouting in German.
Every time I read Brothers Lionheart, I'm amazed at how good it is. How much better, braver, harsher it is than it truly needs to be; it's a children's book, after all, but a children's book that never pulls its punches. Sure there are some plot elements that stretch your suspension of disbelief (then again, given Astrid Lindgren's own explanation of the plot, they make perfect sense), but even so, the brothers and their fight remains not just a good children's version of the typical fantasy Evil Overlord plot but one of the best versions of it, period.
German translation: Good, and adds a certain something simply by having the (quite obviously Hitler-inspired) Tengil's troups shouting in German.