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Beast

Donna Jo Napoli

Hardcover | Pages: 260 pages

Rating: 3.45 | 6665 Users | 475 Reviews

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Original Title:	Beast
ISBN:	0689835892 (ISBN13: 9780689835896)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Persia
Literary Awards:	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (2001)

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I can't say that I really enjoyed this book. It's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, a story that I love, but in this case I didn't find that the retelling improved on the story at all. The premise is intriguing enough: this is Beast's story, starting from before he met Beauty and explaining how and why he came to be a Beast. Unfortunately, I thought the reason for his transformation was unsatisfying, the descriptions of his time as a beast were distasteful, and he was a pretty unlikeable character overall.

Beast is set in Persia, and the protagonist is a prince. As his servant is preparing a camel for sacrifice at a religious festival, he notices that the camel has a scar that makes it unfit for this sacrifice. The servant has no alternative camel ready, an oversight that could result in a severe penalty, possibly even death. The prince, who has a good heart and a dislike for the suffering of others, weighs the risks and benefits and decides that the camel should be sacrificed despite the flaw. This will save the servant and help the people, who receive portions of the meat. And, he reasons, God is merciful.

It's not entirely clear why this reasoning breaks down. The prince is turned into a beast (a lion, in particular) not by God, but by the angry spirit of the camel. I can't honestly say why the camel was angry, because it wasn't explained what exactly happens to an animal that is sacrificed inappropriately. For whatever reason, though, the prince is punished for his attempt to do good by being turned into a lion, and the curse will only be broken if he wins a woman's love (this part is explained by the camel being female, though again, the logic here isn't entirely clear to me). Needless to say, if the goal is to bring the Beast to life by providing his backstory, the backstory needs to make sense. I wasn't exactly satisfied in this regard.

So then the prince is a lion, and does lion things. Although as a man he has never laid eyes on a women other than his mother, his first act as a lion is to mate with some female lions in the palace hunting grounds. This wasn't described in very much detail, but I still could have done without it. I just didn't need to hear about his “thrusting”. Also, note that this is a YA book, or possibly even children's. The prince also spends a lot of his time hunting, which I didn't find very interesting. Basically, I wasn't really into the story until the requisite scene where Belle's father encounters the beast while seeking shelter from the storm; i.e., until Napoli's story converges with the traditional version. Unfortunately, this didn't happen until more than halfway through.

I did enjoy the development of the Beast's relationship to Belle, but I couldn't fully like him because of the way he treated her pet fox. This fox was possibly the best character in the story; he was loving, playful, loyal, forgiving, and basically wonderful all around. And the Beast constantly thought things along the lines of “What a stupid animal” or “That foolish fox....”, for no particular reason that I could see. I'm not sure how he changed from someone who seemed so compassionate initially into someone who thought badly about innocent animals; and no matter how well he treated Belle, I think his ideas about the fox were more telling about his personality.

So, an initially likeable man is transformed into a beast because he made a religious error while trying to help others; once he's a beast, he becomes less likeable rather than learning any sort of valuable lesson.

I've enjoyed other books by Donna Jo Napoli in the past, but I think I'll stick to Robin McKinley for Beauty and the Beast.

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Title	:	Beast
Author	:	Donna Jo Napoli
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 260 pages
Published	:	November 1st 2000 by Atheneum Books
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fairy Tales. Romance. Retellings. Beauty and The Beast. Fiction

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It is extremely rare for me to abandon an audiobook. Partly this is because a good reader - and most pro audiobooks have excellent readers - adds sparkle to even the dullest prose, and partly this is because I listen while running, and so if a hit a place that I don't enjoy I will still continue to listen until the end of the run, and possibly become re-engaged. But after too many chapters of translated Persian terms, graphic descriptions of hunting (from the prince-turned-lion's POV) and sex

A truly original take on Beauty & the Beast. Prince Orasmyn is heir to the throne of Persia, and is deeply religious and gentle, though intensely proud. When he makes a foolish mistake, he is turned into a lion by a pari, and will remain in that shape until he is loved by a woman. Napoli treats the beast in a highly realistic manner; he is very much an animal, albeit one who remembers what it was to be human.

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This is probably the best book about bestiality I've ever read. Probably. Okay, just kidding, it's the only one (so far). Yeah, I really don't know what to say for myself here. I'm not a fan of romance novels in the slightest. I grabbed this off my girlfriend's shelf (she hasn't read it) basically on a whim. I wanted to try reading something outside my comfort zone. As an aspiring author I've heard that's a thing I should do. And...I liked it. I'm just as surprised as anybody, believe me. I can

I scratch in the dirt, "You are brave."She gives a small gasp of amazement and stares at my words. "I don't have a choice."I wince. "And honest."This was a surprise... A really delightful surprise. Beast was unique in so many ways, where it was set, how it was written, and the fact that Prince Orasmyn was actually turned into a lion. An actual lion, king of beasts.You know how you see books, and on the back are excerpts from reviews that say something like, "Thrilling!" or "Riveting!" And you're

Interesting retelling of Beauty and the Beast from the Beast's point of view. Beast is a Persian prince who gets turned into a lion. Lots of little details about Islam and life in ancient Persia, but way too much focus on bodily functions from the point of view of a real animal--all lions do is eat, sleep and fornicate, right? A bit graphic in parts, even downright yucky sometimes. I would never give this to my children to read. I would have eliminated one scene completely before ever calling it

Vey inappropriate, for children. These are the books that parents have to be careful with. You can never know what's inside. I found the book weird and couldn't go beyond the first two chapters. This is what happens after the Prince turns into a lion: (view spoiler)[First thing he does is mating with two lionesses. That was too much. Then as a lion on the run he comes up with plans of visiting lion cubs and stealing baby female cubs and wait until they're old enough to hunt for him and mate