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The BFG
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bookshelves: as-short-as-my-legs, classics, the-big-screens, bagful-of-laughs, middle-grade
Dec 12, 2015
bookshelves: as-short-as-my-legs, classics, the-big-screens, bagful-of-laughs, middle-grade
I grinned from ear to ear, I laughed out loud, and I even nodded in grave seriousness. These are the reactions The BFG had evoked from me.
(If you're amused or puzzled at the poor usage of grammar and spellings, I don't quite blame you.)
This was so delightful! Roald Dahl’s crammed in a lot of odd, new words in here - as usual - and they often cracked me up. What's more, The BFG is also ironic at times and it put me to ponder about the ways of humans.
The Big Friendly Giant is the only one of his kind to disapprove of eating human beings. He was out one night, blowing dreams into sleeping children’s windows when he was spotted by Sophie.
In his hand went and then, he kidnapped her right out of the orphanage bedroom!
The two shared a couple of long conversations about all sorts of topics (some conversations is quite silly, some make you wonder). Before long, they realized they had to do something about the man-eating giants.
This was full of adventures. I think any kids could easily have loved this. I've also come to appreciate Dahl’s wry humour and his new never-been-seen-on-dictionaries vocabularies have marked his writing style as unique.
It was the movie trailer that pushed me to read the written work and I have no regrets. I can't wait to see how it all played out onscreen!
‘Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own kind. Even poisnowse snakes is never killing each other. Nor is the most fearsome creatures like tigers and rhinostossterisses. None of them is ever killing their own kind. Has you ever thought about that?’
- The BFG
(If you're amused or puzzled at the poor usage of grammar and spellings, I don't quite blame you.)
This was so delightful! Roald Dahl’s crammed in a lot of odd, new words in here - as usual - and they often cracked me up. What's more, The BFG is also ironic at times and it put me to ponder about the ways of humans.
The Big Friendly Giant is the only one of his kind to disapprove of eating human beings. He was out one night, blowing dreams into sleeping children’s windows when he was spotted by Sophie.
In his hand went and then, he kidnapped her right out of the orphanage bedroom!
The two shared a couple of long conversations about all sorts of topics (some conversations is quite silly, some make you wonder). Before long, they realized they had to do something about the man-eating giants.
This was full of adventures. I think any kids could easily have loved this. I've also come to appreciate Dahl’s wry humour and his new never-been-seen-on-dictionaries vocabularies have marked his writing style as unique.
It was the movie trailer that pushed me to read the written work and I have no regrets. I can't wait to see how it all played out onscreen!
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Reading Progress
December 12, 2015
– Shelved
December 12, 2015
– Shelved as:
to-read
January 1, 2016
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Started Reading
January 5, 2016
– Shelved as:
as-short-as-my-legs
January 5, 2016
– Shelved as:
classics
January 5, 2016
– Shelved as:
the-big-screens
January 5, 2016
– Shelved as:
bagful-of-laughs
January 5, 2016
– Shelved as:
middle-grade
January 5, 2016
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Finished Reading
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