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⌈ Secret Post #3330 ⌋

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[Uchuu Kyoudai (Space Brothers)]

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[Roald Dahl]

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[X-Files, "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster"]

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[Agnus Dei/Les Innocentes]

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[Whitechapel, DC Emerson Kent]

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[Undertale]

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(Tales from the Borderlands)

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[Steven Universe]

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[Roald Dahl]

I'm sorry about how you have no taste, OP.

Ah, I see the problem. You are a boring old stick in the mud with no sense of imagination. You should work on that.

In spite of the other comments, OP, although I disagree you are entitled to your opinion. And I do like his autobiographies a lot. Even though I enjoyed his books for children, his autobiographies are my favorite.

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I have nothing to add except that it took me decades to realize his name isn't Ronald.

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His books are old-fashioned books for kids. Not the modern winky, ironic, half for adults books. So it's not surprising that if you read them for the first time as an adult you didn't like them much. But you are still wrong. Reading them as a kid is wonderful and he was a wonderful writer.

(Never mind his anti-Semitism.)

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I only read his WWII autobiography, but I liked it a lot.

I did like some of his kids books as a kid, though. I think Matilda was my favorite, I could relate to her being a girl who loved reading.

YMMV and all, but I'm confused how his children's books could be considered shitty. Not to one's taste, sure. but shitty? really?

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The troll secret of the year award goes to...... *drumroll*

Roal Dahl sucks anon!

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Ouch. I love his autobiographical work a lot, but his childrens books were a huge part of my childhood, so...

You're entitled to your opinion on Dahl, but given that said children's books are read, referenced and considered beloved classics to this day, I wouldn't say he exactly wasted his life on them.

Even apart from the kids books I find it laughable to think Dahl in any way wasted his life.

But but...The Giraffe The Pelly And Me! Mathilda! The Witches!!! And also all those more grown-up short stories like the one where the wife kills her husband with a frozen leg of lamb and then feeds it to the police officers!

Oh my god

People like different things

What is this fuckery

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Uh. While I couldn't disagree more on your taste in childrens books, you know that Roald Dahl did write quite a bit of grown up fiction too, right?

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my niece is named sophie because of the bfg, so... yeah

I didn't like "subversive" children's literature as kid, not even Janosch or Bernd the Bread.

I can enjoy some of it now, but it doesn't appeal to the child in me, if that makes sense.

so yeah I don't understand the unconditional nostalgia ppl have for this either.

Without his books OP, you wouldn't have JK Rowling's Harry Potter series.

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Well, think what you want, but his "shitty kids books" that were a 'waste of time' made me really happy when I was a little kid slowly recovering from a horrible leg injury, my teacher resenting that I needed a walker to get around school, and kids calling me a cripple. They made me laugh. They gave me hope life could be better someday, even if things were bad now. Roald wasn't perfect. He said and did things he really, really shouldn't have. He was probably a better writer than person, but I will stick by the books I grew up with.

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I remember enjoying his books as a kid but it's been a long time since I've read them so I have no idea how well they hold up for me, I do know that seeing the BFG play scared the shit out of me when I was younger because of the bad giants.

I don't care about the opinion or OP's taste. I just hate the tone of the OP "I think it's bad so the author wasted his talent on it".

Fuck that. Maybe you didn't like it OP. But tons of people did, and I like to believe the author did. And as far as I'm concerned, that's all that matters.

You should read his porn stories then.

I'd be interested to know what you thought of his fiction that was NOT for children (which I only saw mentioned once in all the high dudgeon, tsk).

His short stories are funny and vicious-- and if you've ever seen "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" you may have even seen a few (the ones that come most quickly to mind are "Man from the South" and "Lamb to the Slaughter"-- episodes both directed by Hitch himself).

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I sort of agree with you, OP. I liked Matilda, and I liked The Twits (racist caricature monkeys aside), but the rest of his children's books weren't nearly as fascinating to me as they were to everyone else.

I think I remember liking James and the Giant Peach, but I didn't like any of his other books, though I haven't read his adult works.

I had plenty of other things to choose from as a kid.

I've only read a couple of his kids books, but I agree, they're not all that awesome. I wouldn't go so far as to say 'shitty', but there are definitely some kids books I like a whole lot more.

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