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AIBU to be disappointed in David Walliams

52 replies

BufordTJustice · 30/11/2018 13:44

For allowing the hate filled, fake news rag that is the Daily Mail to gain readership by offering a free cd of his children's books.

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TeenTimesTwo · 30/11/2018 13:46

Ooh has he? Which book?

waxy1 · 30/11/2018 13:46

The Mail, like capitalism itself, will be destroyed from within.

Walliams gets that.

Evilspiritgin · 30/11/2018 13:47

I don’t think the mail will be needing any help from David walliams maybe the other way around

beenandgoneandbackagain · 30/11/2018 13:52

His books are awful and full of really old stereotypes, e.g. rich distant father, and self-obsessed glamorous trophy wife in (I think?) the midnight gang. I refuse to read them to my daughter.

nornironrock · 30/11/2018 13:57

His books are probably available to buy in some horrible countries also.

He's a writer, not a politician, and he sells books to provide himself with an income. If we all got hung up on the morals of where products are made available, I'm afraid that many of us may be left without access to many of things we buy/consume.

I'm no fan of the Mail either, but I choose to let that reflect in my decision not to buy it.

Kpo58 · 30/11/2018 13:57

I doubt that they will gain readership. It's more likely bought for the CD and the paper will be thrown away unread. They will most likely loose money.

TeenTimesTwo · 30/11/2018 14:00

His books got my DD out of a non-reading phase.

PaulHollywoodsSexGut · 30/11/2018 14:01

I irrationally hate him, more so after he attended that dinner with the hostesses mandated to wear mini skirts kerfuffle.

I don’t approve of the following but his Hippo book ended up falling into the recycling one day.

9 months on DD still hasn’t noticed

RiverTam · 30/11/2018 14:03

well, he won't have done that deal, his publisher (or agent, possibly) will have.

He's an awful writer, though, so it's no loss.

And am I right in thinking Dacre is no longer at the helm of the Mail?

hoki · 30/11/2018 14:03

His book about the visiting elephant is awful, constantly calling the kid a "Silly boy". Sounds harmless but in the context it's really mean. I literally threw it in the recycling.

Clawdy · 30/11/2018 14:04

Didn't the story come out a couple of weeks ago that they were all ghost-written anyway, not his work?

weebarra · 30/11/2018 14:07

Sub par Roald Dahl. I don't like his writing at all. World's Worst Children made me feel sick but I'm not his target audience.

RiverTam · 30/11/2018 14:10

Clawdy I hope not, you'd think they'd get a ghostwriter who could actually construct a sentence to write them! Fancy paying twice for such poorly written books!

BentNeckLady · 30/11/2018 14:11

I bought the sun recently to get £1.50 off his new book. I just scanned the paper and the put it back in the rack.

No-one actually buys the DM paper copy do they? Its all free online.

RomanyRoots · 30/11/2018 14:14

His books were terrible, just tried to copy Roald Dahl but without the talent for writing.
I quite liked his comedy during his day, but he's past his best now and grasping at straws.

Thesnobbymiddleclassone · 30/11/2018 14:15

I doubt he's had much say in it. It'll be a deal between the publishers, their marketing team and the Daily Mail.

OrgyofSausages · 30/11/2018 14:16

Agreed he is talentless and now just gets a few quid by acting like a screaming queen. Ultra-boring.

jacksonmaine · 30/11/2018 14:17

I can't get worked up. I hate his books and when DD won a few, I replaced them overnight with something else. Grin

LilMy33 · 30/11/2018 14:20

His books are awful. They’re more or less the only ones I won’t read with my children. I just hate how he writes and his lazy stereotypes.

Seafoodeatit · 30/11/2018 14:21

weebarra sums it up pretty well, he's a very poor imitation of Dahl.

EerieSilence · 30/11/2018 14:22

I can't stand him and this didn't improve his image one iota:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5308001/David-Walliams-absolutely-appalled-sexist-party.html

I for one absolutely don't believe he had no idea what was going on.
I am not buying his books.

brizzledrizzle · 30/11/2018 14:22

YANBU. In my opinion the quality of the writing of the two publications is ideally suited to each other so in that respect he has chosen appropriately.

nornironrock · 30/11/2018 14:32

I'm amazed at how many of you censor or remove what your kids read. I'm thankful my son has found stuff he will read. Mainly Walliams, Guinness Records books, and stuff about footballers. Not my taste at all, but I think geopolitics might be a little too much for him.

But at least he's reading!

I don't feel so bad about not allowing the Guardian or Observer now.

Snowdrifthill · 30/11/2018 14:32

I don't like David Walliams and I don't like his books, there's something just plain not very nice lurking underneath all of them. I can't quite put my finger on it but there seems to be a nastiness about them.

Unfinishedkitchen · 30/11/2018 14:34

Is he the one who wrote ‘Gangsta Granny’? If so he’s already awful. Terrible book, don’t get the hype, must have a great PR team.