Everyman's Library Children's Classics The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, (Hardcover)

from ghr4

The original Munchausen stories, those by R.E. Raspe in 1785 comprising the book's first section (Singular Travels, Campaigns and Adventures), are wonderful tall tales of the Baron's fantastical exploits. Raspe relates these funny and fast-paced tales using Munchausen's first-person voice, unspoo...

from Joe73

Very enjoyable. Fast paced and exciting. Some of the pickles the Baron gets himself into are funny. Some are pretty dark. Overall a good, quick read.

from Andy_Dingley

A classic, but oddly disappointing. Indeed "the movie was better". This is just so fast-paced that there's no room for any depth or "texture" to it. Each escapade is only a page or two, so there's hardly room for an adjective. Those that are are mostly implausible superlatives. So it's a fascina...

from greeniezona

I bought this book because Neversink Library and Terry Gilliam. I haven't seen the movie yet, somehow, and thought it would be nice to read the book first. I knew almost nothing about it, and as it turns out, this is one of the rare books where I wish the afterword had been the foreword. It would...