James and the Giant Peach

[draggonlaady]

I just got around to reading this Roald Dahl book. Yes, I realize it's shocking that I'd never read it. But now I have, so you can stop being shocked. I am uncertain how well I liked it... I feel like it was a reasonably good book, but I'm still disappointed and that may be because I had over-high expectations, because it is such a classic? Not sure... also I feel sorry for all the seagulls left trailing silk ropes around their necks indefinitely. But maybe I'm weird?

Comments

[sphynx-again.livejournal.com]

Well, you _are_ weird, but I'm not sure that has anything to do with your feelings regarding the seagulls. :)

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to think I'd have had qualms about the welfare of the gulls as a child too, I don't think that's an adult-learned-worry. Killing the aunts seemed extreme, but that is almost certainly something I'd have ignored/brushed over as a kid. The gulls though... I was one of those kids who passed around petitions to try to get all my relatives and the school to stop using plastic ring 6 pack holders and stuff, for fear of wild animals getting tangled in them. The whole 500+ gulls with nooses thing would have been super cringe-worthy as a child. (as it is as an adult)

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I will reread children's books that I read as a child, but I've given up on reading them for the first time. It turns out that the way to enjoy most children's books is to have read them when you were a child.

[brainweevil.livejournal.com]

Using Bruce s account but jes replying...that's not usually a problem for me. I have found a bunch of kid books and young adult books that I really like that I didn't know about as a kid, like Ursula Vernon stuff. I read a lot of kids books in university because no time and short attention span.