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Published: 2009-05-18 22:46:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 813; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 0
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Description I found a stack of copies of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince in a table marked "For Grads" at the Barnes and Noble in Georgetown. I didn't get that at all, so I asked the cashier about it, but she'd never been able to figure it out either. In another Barnes and Noble I found it in the children's section. lol wtf Barnes and Noble.
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Comments: 20

RisingSunfish [2009-07-30 10:03:15 +0000 UTC]

This is one of my favorite books. He looks quite concerned for his flower, but I don't see any sheep...

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to RisingSunfish [2009-08-01 05:51:58 +0000 UTC]

The sheep never actually appeared in the story, if you'll recall. At least, not as such.

In any case, this doesn't illustrate a part of the book when the sheep was around anyway.

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kaiser-mony [2009-06-14 02:44:23 +0000 UTC]

Oh god....my elementary school was named after this book! LMFAO

I love this story SO much! One of the most beautiful pieces of literature IMO~

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to kaiser-mony [2009-06-14 03:51:16 +0000 UTC]

I wish my elementary school had been named after this book! That is super cool. D:

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Shiyu-chan [2009-06-09 02:54:37 +0000 UTC]

I've never heard of this, but this piece is SO CUTE, OMG. I love the soft colors and the little kid's expression XD

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to Shiyu-chan [2009-06-09 03:07:03 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thanks. It's a really cute book!

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unusual-fish [2009-05-24 10:19:55 +0000 UTC]

You got the book's art style just right! I like how you made him chubbier and gave the rose a lot more character. Roses should be bushy. ^^

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to unusual-fish [2009-05-25 06:11:31 +0000 UTC]

Ahhhh ha ha ha. Yeah. I did want him to look very kid-like, and making him all chubby seemed like...I dunno...the logical thing to do or something.

I was debating whether I should have the rose sticking all up out of the ground by herself like in the illustrations, but in the end I just made her a teeny bush. To...put my own pompous touch in it or...whatever.

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resistie [2009-05-20 04:46:50 +0000 UTC]

Very cool picture

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picklelova [2009-05-19 21:57:51 +0000 UTC]

We're reading it in French and it's really intense. So many tenses! (that was unintentional)

Very cute. (Une fleur fiere)

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Debajo-de-la-hoja [2009-05-19 10:18:03 +0000 UTC]

Nami, this is pants-crappingly cute. Seriously, I wanna grab his head and give him noogies while he begs me in his adorable voice to quit. Of course, I won't quit till he says 'Uncle' or some such crap...

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to Debajo-de-la-hoja [2009-05-20 02:05:37 +0000 UTC]

Haha!

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hanabi-kun [2009-05-19 04:37:13 +0000 UTC]

Oh, good art !!
I completly agree with you, The Little Prince had been written for kids, but it's better reading it later.
When you're a kid, you don't understant what happens, you just say it is sad... I did u_u... Besides, few months ago, I saw it in theater, and I interpretated it in a very different way...

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P0W4H-L4D33 [2009-05-18 23:42:33 +0000 UTC]

DON'T GIVE UP LITTLE PRINCE

I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT IT IS I DON'T WANT YOU TO GIVE UP ON BUT DON'T ANYWAY

I've actually never read The Little Prince, but from what I heard, I agree that it belongs in the grads sections. Oh ho. It's just as amusing as people who'll put Akiria in the animated children's movie section.

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to P0W4H-L4D33 [2009-05-19 00:14:36 +0000 UTC]

I'M NOT SURE WHAT IT IS YOU WANT HIM TO GIVE UP ON EITHER ACTUALLY

The Little Prince is a good read, but mostly for those people who find themselves DEEPLY MOVED by crap like A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh and the like. And not everyone's into that kind of thing.

It's not that bad for a kids' book; I'm sure there are children out there who just eat it up, but it idealizes kids and childhood in general in a way that you'd only really be able to appreciate and sympathize with if you weren't actually a child anymore. I love this story now, but when I was a kid - and the story was written for kids, as the author repeatedly stresses - I thought it was the dumbest boringest thing ever.

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Aeorys [2009-05-18 23:30:02 +0000 UTC]

LOLWTF Indeed, though I would consider it a higher-level book. It requires some thinking.

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to Aeorys [2009-05-18 23:36:36 +0000 UTC]

Very true! Personally, I thought it was better-suited to the "For Grads" section than to the kids' one, but I'd guess most people might not see it that way, given its picture-book-ness.

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Aeorys In reply to OutOfTheOrange [2009-05-19 01:13:08 +0000 UTC]

Hm, yeah, but lol, could you imagine a kid reading that?

Kid: Mommy, what's a 'matters of consequence?'
Mom: ...wut.

Ouch. XD

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OutOfTheOrange In reply to Aeorys [2009-05-19 04:55:14 +0000 UTC]

I know, right? Too many big words, man. Maybe in the original French the vocabulary was simpler, I dunno...

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Aeorys In reply to OutOfTheOrange [2009-05-19 05:15:27 +0000 UTC]

XD

Perhaps. ._.; Though, I can't read French, so I wouldn't know. I didn't get a chance to read it in German, either. >:

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