n  “All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”n

such a cute and adorable story.

اینجا این نسخه‌ی شازده‌کوچولو رو تحویل نگرفتن. حالا من یه چیزایی می‌گم، باشد که هوشیار شید. :همر:

نسخه‌ای که من دارم، ترجمه‌ی محمد قاضی و انتشارات امیرکبیر از نسل کتاب‌های جیبی‌شه. چاپ اول 1333 و چاپ سیزدهمی که من دارم، سال 69. صفحه دومش هم بالا با یه روان‌نویس سبز یشمی نوشته شده یازده و نیم صبح یکشنبه، کتابفروشی کیوان، شیراز. با توجه به زمان و مکانش، احتمال می‌دم مال دوره‌ای باشه که خاله‌بزرگه‌م شیراز درس می‌خونده. پشتش زده بها 450 ریال. از همه جالب‌تر تیراژشه. یازده هزار نسخه! می‌فهمین؟! یازده! هزار! نسخه! سال سی و سه! جمعیت اون موقع نصف الانم نبوده، بوده؟ و چاپ سال سی و سه تا شصت و نه با یازده هزار تیراژ، به چاپ سیزدهم می‌رسه! درنتیجه کتابی که دستمه عتیقه‌ست. :))))

شازده‌کوچولو رو تا حالا نخونده بودم. آره بارها گفتم بچگی من با بزرگی گذشت، برا همین توی بزرگیام دارم بچگی می‌کنم و کتاب‌های بچگونه هم می‌خونم. حالا این حرفم لزوماً برا شازده‌کوچولو نیس، چون شازده‌کوچولو گرچه قالب کودکانه داره اما کاملاً بزرگونه و جدیه دغدغه‌ش. دیالوگ‌ها واضح و مفهوم‌ها بدون پیچیدگی. تا قبل خوندنش می‌دونستم با چیز شاهکاری روبه‌رو می‌شم ولی این فکر هم بود که حالا دیگه زیادی اغراق شده. اما مقدمه اول کتاب و نقاشی‌ها و داستان... منو به یقین رسوند. یه آدم نظامی و جنگ‌دیده با روحیات لطیف و نازک‌خیالی. مبادا توی هجوم دنیای معاصر، شازده‌کوچولوها دیده نشن...

Obra maestra donde las haya; un cuento para niños y para los que no lo son tanto.

«Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.»

Never before did I read The Little Prince … But it’s better late than never…
Despite its outward simplicity the story possesses sagacity of parable… It’s about loneliness and friendship…
The little prince is a guest from the tiny planet… Solitude is a very small planet… In the desert he meets a pilot in trouble and they talk…

‘So what’s the point of thorns then?’
The little prince never gave up a question once he’d asked it. I was angry with the bolt and snapped back without thinking:
‘Thorns are pointless; they’re just a flower’s way of being spiteful!’
‘Oh!’
But after a silence he said bitterly:
‘I don’t believe you. Flowers are weak and simple. They fend for themselves as best they can. They think they’re terrifying with their thorns.’

On his way to Earth the little prince encounters several colourful personas – all of them are selfish, smug and indifferent. And only on Earth the wise fox teaches him the art of acquiring friends…

‘Please,’ he said. ‘Tame me!’
‘I’d like to,’ replied the little prince. ‘But I haven’t got a lot of time. I want to make friends and learn about things.’
‘You only know about things you tame,’ said the fox. ‘People haven’t got time to know about things any more. They buy things ready-made in the shops. But as there aren’t any shops that sell friendship, they don’t have friends anymore. If you want a friend, tame me!’

Even the only friend can save you from loneliness.
There is a rose unlike any other.

“Of course an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looks just like you. But she’s more important than all of you – because I watered her, I sheltered her under a glass dome, and I protected her with a mesh. It was for her that I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three so she could see the butterflies). I have listened to her complaining, grumbling, boasting and even to her silence. Because she is my rose.”

EDIT (17/03/2020):
“It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.”

This, this is the right time to revisit your favourite books! It just feels like meeting an old-time friend.
Just what we all need at the moment! It really made me feel so happy to re-read this book again. I have limited time, and I try to focus on new books. And since we are asked to remain at home as much as possible, I thought this would be a great moment to re-read this book. The Little Prince will always remain my favourite!

“It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.”



EDIT (08/06/2018):
"You understand... it is too far. I cannot carry this body with me. It is too heavy."

Whenever I read the Little Prince, I read it in the voice of my grandmother who used to read it to me when I was little.
And now, it became our final goodbye.

"And at night you will look up at the stars. Where I live everything is so small
that I cannot show you where my star is to be found. It is better, like that. My
star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the
stars in the heavens... they will all be your friends. And, besides, I am going to
make you a present..."
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V téhle knize je něco úžasného, vždycky mě uchopí za srdce a ten konec mám sto chutí ořvat. A přitom je to tak jednoduchá kniha, ale je v ní takové pravdy!
Jako malá jsem měla CD, kde příběh vypráví Jiřina Bohdalová, co já jsem se toho naposlouchala. A nakonci, jak je "výzva", že když se malý princ objeví, tak jí máme napsat. Tak kolik já jsem těch dopisů napsala, když jsem si hrála, mám pocit, že by se doma ještě daly najít.

Jedna z nejlepších knih. Neuvěřitelně smutná a o to víc krásná.

"Kniha je jako zrcadlo. Hledí-li do ní hlupák, sotva může očekávat, že uvidí něco geniálního." J. K. Rowling

What’s important is what’s invisible.

One of the cutest, prettiest, most interesting stories I’ve ever read.

It leaves me wondering; How can such a limited number of pages contain all this greatness?

Oh boy. I swear I don't do it on purpose. I'm trying to keep an open mind and let popularity with high ratings guide me to seemingly interesting reads I wouldn't consider otherwise. I truly don't understand how this book has over 1.5 million ratings. It's like some cruel joke people play on each other by recommending it to others.

I was bored to tears (I have an eyelid infection). I was on board until the little prince showed up. Then it was the ultimate "Huh?" Fest. At just past the halfway mark I started to realize what this is. It's a book of philosophy geared towards small children. The kind of book an adult would read and consider it good for their kid like some sort nasty medicine they need to take to get better. Yuck!

It's way too deep on a spiritual level for any 6 to 8 year to get. Why would they even read it in the first place? It's painfully dull. There's tons of children's books and television that combine learning with fun and jokes. I guess this author didn't get the memo.

Let's say I believe that it's meant for an elementary school kid to read as part of an excruciating assignment. What is with all the talk of alcoholics, guns, and death? I'm surprised the little "prince" didn't visit a planet where the only inhabitant was doing nonstop speedballs until he dropped.

Great observations, but personally I think it's overrated. It practically begs the reader to come to the conclusion that if you don't "get it" it's your own fault because you're a "grown up, and only kids can see what matters." It's heavy handed, clumsily executed observations on what's important in life. It's not wrong by any means, but it's kind of pseudo-intellectualist.

I'm going to go with a literal interpretation of the plot, because it's more fun that way:

A man crashes his plane in the desert, hallucinates a small alien boy that teaches him philosophical lessons, invents a history for him, finds a well just in time to stave off dehydration, as he re-hydrates, his hallucinated alien friend kills himself and disappears, he fixes his plane and flies home and is sad about it, but feels blessed for the experience as it has changed him.


Ready for the moral? It's really simple:
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." Or in other words, spend your time developing relationships, don't worry so much about the things, they're not important, it's the time you spend and how you spend it that is.

That's a nice philosophy, I get it. I even agree with it one hundred percent. I just think these metaphors are painfully clumsy.

Sure I'd love to read this to the kids at bedtime but I'll need to rehearse beforehand lest some light sobbing get in the way.

What did I care about my hammer, about my bolt, about thirst and death? There was, on one star, on one planet, on mine, the Earth, a little prince to be consoled!

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Memo to myself: fewer hats, more boa constrictors.

5 stars. Should be mandatory reading for anyone who finds themself in the embarrassing predicament of growing older.

This is my seventh time to reread and enjoy the little prince’s thought provoking, sad, poetic, nostalgic, powerful, emotional journey to the world!

Nearly 80 years later from its first release it still addresses to your heart, giving its important social criticism messages and also it gives you hope about friendship, childhood, life. That’s why after all these years the book is still cherished by both adults and young generations.

It was also great reflection of France’s fall at the end of World War II. It’s time to build a new country that is rising from its ashes.

Anytime I join this adventure, it makes you cry and smile at the same time which makes this book unique, timeless, lyrical, extraordinary.

Here are my favorite quotes:

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”

“If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...”