The Adventures of Pinocchio: Story of a Puppet

First time i listen to an audiobook completely, and this story was perfect for it. It's more of an Adventure Fable, like Candide but without the satire. Pinocchio's laziness and naïvety get him through a series of troubles until he learns to be responsible, pretty much on the nose morality.

A beautiful book for children that teaches and brings values

Fun, creative little story. Pinocchio himself is a bit annoying and characters come and go on a whim. Still, enjoyable.

Pretty good, full of imagination and weirdness. Pinocchio was far more naughty in the book than in the Disney version which kinda made the moral work better. In the movie he was kinda just cute and dumb so you forgave him. Here, you wanna smack him. As usual, Blue Fairy or “The Child with the blue hair” is the best character. Unexpected gore including a donkey getting its ears bitten off and a cat ripping of its own paw was unexpected...

Umm... okay then. One of the strangest books I've ever read. An interesting story, extremely different from the Disney adaptation. Much more strange and certainly more disturbing and weird. I appreciate that it is a children's classic and it was very lively and fun, but I just wasn't into it. Still kind of shaking my head like what the heck did I just read? I was not expecting it to be so different from the movie I watched as a little kid.

Forget everything you learned about Pinocchio from the Disney movie. Pinocchio is bad. He lies. He cheats. He steals. And he enjoys doing bad things. He is repentant only when he is about to be severely punished and as soon as the punishment is removed, he goes right back to being bad.

He cares about his father. He cares about the blue fairy. These are his only redeeming qualities. But they are enough.

A book that is full of action and adventures. And it is also so fun to read.