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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
How have I never read this before? It's a lot of fun, as you'd expect, and teaches high value males how to attract hot women through the simple technique of buying hundreds of tortoises and constructing a simple device for exchanging them from an upper storey balcony. If Mr Hoppy were real, he would be running a dating strategy youtube channel and making a pile of cash.
I hate to give Roald Dahl anything less than five stars but this story is problematic as f*ck.
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Cutesy romance. Have to admit, slightly creepy method of winning someone's heart.
BOOOOOOO
i am boo-ing this book. no just no.
mr hoppy is meant to be your shy "nice guy" protagonist but no ! he's manipulative and he's down hoRRENDOUS for mrs silver
exhibit a:
"your slave for life, he kept repeating to himself. what a bliss!"
that's all you need. that is ALL the information you need to tell you "hey, this guy sucks."
fine exhibit b: he forms a whole elaborate scheme which involves stealing alfie (mrs silver's tortoise), replacing them with MULTIPLE TORTI (keeping them in bad living conditions with insufficient care) in order to trick mrs silver into marrying him. IT WORKS BY THE WAY. i do not care if this is a spoiler. do not read this unless you want to learn/establish what a bad children's book looks like. a bad book.
the only good characters in this are alfie, all the tortoises and roberta's family.
okay fine i spoiler marked it
my list is:
┍━━━━━━━☟━━━━━━━┑
1. The Magic Finger
2. Fantastic Mr Fox
3. Esio Trot
┕━━━━━━━☝︎ ━━━━━━━┙
i am boo-ing this book. no just no.
mr hoppy is meant to be your shy "nice guy" protagonist but no ! he's manipulative and he's down hoRRENDOUS for mrs silver
exhibit a:
"your slave for life, he kept repeating to himself. what a bliss!"
that's all you need. that is ALL the information you need to tell you "hey, this guy sucks."
fine exhibit b: he forms a whole elaborate scheme which involves stealing alfie (mrs silver's tortoise), replacing them with MULTIPLE TORTI (keeping them in bad living conditions with insufficient care) in order to trick mrs silver into marrying him. IT WORKS BY THE WAY. i do not care if this is a spoiler. do not read this unless you want to learn/establish what a bad children's book looks like. a bad book.
the only good characters in this are alfie, all the tortoises and roberta's family.
okay fine i spoiler marked it
my list is:
┍━━━━━━━☟━━━━━━━┑
1. The Magic Finger
2. Fantastic Mr Fox
3. Esio Trot
┕━━━━━━━☝︎ ━━━━━━━┙
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This was a sweet little short story. I think I read it in about 10 minutes - perfect for bedtime whimsy. Some might have problems with the "lying to get what you want in a relationship" aspect of this, but I think children will think the premise is just clever and silly. Would recommend for ages 4-6.
A fun re-read, but the "love story" is a bit questionable
This book was cute in a strange Roald Dahl kind of way. The cuteness of the old man being so in love with his neighbor that he willingly buys 140 tortooises is adorable to me. However, I was slightly stressed about the fact that the woman didn't recognize the fact that her turtles were changing every day. What a weird, whacky story.