Reviews - Tatie pourrie | The StoryGraph

The thing about being a repentant tsundoku (acquiring books without reading them) who has accumulated so many titles is that you’d learn something unsavoury about an author that makes you feel conflicted about reading, rating and reviewing their work. Sure, some might argue about separating the art from the artist, but you do you boo, and let me do me. I find it hard to separate both because the art comes from the artist – that is a seed of idea from a person. To try and separate both seems to me like playing with fire. Sure, fiction is just a figment of someone’s imagination, but whose? Does it mean we’re making time to listen to a liar?

There are so many controversies surrounding Walliams and I was disturbed to find out about them especially the ones involving children. I draw the line when it comes to children. So even though I did end up reading and enjoying some of his books, I wouldn’t recommend them to children. I wouldn’t want them wanting to meet him. It would make me feel like a Pied Piper enabler.

So, while my rating reflects my level of enjoyment with each book I read, my review of them will be just this. I feel like it is my obligation as an adult to just warn, perhaps a parent or guardian can make a more informed decision when getting books for children.

samirshrestha's review against another edition

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emotional funny mysterious

4.0

gloriamitchell821196844's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

w1ll1amjm's review against another edition

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funny mysterious sad tense

4.5

foxynz's review against another edition

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5.0

This book was a birthday gift for my daughter, and it was such a great gift! This is the 1st Walliams book we've read, and it gripped us from the start. My 10 year old son enjoyed it too, and after the first couple of chapters I had to say they couldn't read it without me, as I wanted to know what happened too! So it was lots of fun taking turns reading it out loud to each other.

I liked that it was quite dark and nerve racking in parts. I liked the humour and the use of language - easy enough to read but not patronising. Would recommend it to confident readers from 7 ish-10
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We are definitely going to be searching out more from Walliams!

imnotjohncandy1's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

jollybaboon's review against another edition

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fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.0

A good story hiding in amongst its 400 pages, could have done with out all the lists.

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