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I have always been the type to hear a story one time and not want to hear it again.  If I’ve seen the movie, I don’t read with the book.  If I’ve read the book, I won’t bother with the movie (The Lord of the Rings being a notable exception).  And I almost never read anything a second time.  New books are published, new movies are produced, and the quantity of printed words and motion pictures stretches back decades and centuries before my lifetime.  Why return to people and places, events and distant times, I have already experienced?

Neil Gaiman’s essay on fairytale in The Guardian makes me rethink whether, for me, this should be.

“…but I enjoyed the screenplay and I really like the film they made - which takes liberties with the plot all over the place.  …A star still falls, a boy still promises to bring it to his true love, there are still wicked witches and ghosts and lords…”

The retelling of the thing is, perhaps, a whole new experience to know.