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I realise this is children's literature blasphemy so please don't look if you have a sensitive disposition but...

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OrmIrian · 30/10/2007 11:11

....I am going to come clean and say that I really do not like Roald Dahl's books. I know that children love them and I'm sure they are an excellent excouragement to reading but I can't stand them. OK, they are meant for children not adults but there are plenty of fantastic authors who write for children without everything being a written version of a cartoon, or like the script for a panto. Every emotion has to be written large - sorry for large read HUUUUGEEE! Can't children do subtelty?

I guess I'm just pd off because I can see myself having to read the f Witches again for DC no3 in the nearish future and I really really don't want to ...

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Dinosaur · 30/10/2007 11:21

I never read them as a child either. What were the moral reasons?

Fantastic Mr Fox was about the first thing that got DS1 reading on his own, and we went to see a great production of The Twits last Christmas.

I hate bleedin' Winnie the bleedin' Pooh...

OrmIrian · 30/10/2007 11:17

Moral reasons armadillo??? Am I missing something?

Never read it as a child. Think I was too late TBH

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ArmadilloDaMan · 30/10/2007 11:16

My mum detests Roald Dahl for moral reasons.

Unsurprisingly I lvoed it as a kid solely because she hated it so much.

Looking back I can see why she hated it, but still don't have a problem with ti.

TwigorTreat · 30/10/2007 11:13

I farkin hate Charlie and piggin' Lola