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Memorable characters, a couple of them moving in their depictions.
A solid send-up of everyone's reliance on the "telly" for entertainment vs. reading a book in one's hands. Basically an indictment of TV.
The list of Matilda the wunderkind's books read by 1st-grade age had me depressed. I haven't read some of those yet (Austen, the tortured Russian novelists).
A couple funny quips early about teacher-student relations and homework.
A fun, easy read, as a children's book *better be* at this point(!).
I'd have liked it better, but I imagined a better ending than the completely satisfying and yet action-lacking denouement. I'd thought my 4th grade teacher read this to the class in the day, and that the ending involved Matilda, in typical morbid Dahl-esque fashion, ending the treacherous reign of her school's headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, thus saving herself, her beloved teacher Ms. Honey, and everyone else. I thought this even took place by Matilda, who has powers to make objects move, coordinating some knives to fly at the Trunchbull and end her. Maybe I misremember this or am thinking of another kids' read (although what would that be?). Maybe I just saw Stephen King's Carrie too much.
I honestly probably wouldn't have picked it up again had I known the ending.
Whatever. In the end, classic Dahl.
A solid send-up of everyone's reliance on the "telly" for entertainment vs. reading a book in one's hands. Basically an indictment of TV.
The list of Matilda the wunderkind's books read by 1st-grade age had me depressed. I haven't read some of those yet (Austen, the tortured Russian novelists).
A couple funny quips early about teacher-student relations and homework.
A fun, easy read, as a children's book *better be* at this point(!).
I'd have liked it better, but I imagined a better ending than the completely satisfying and yet action-lacking denouement. I'd thought my 4th grade teacher read this to the class in the day, and that the ending involved Matilda, in typical morbid Dahl-esque fashion, ending the treacherous reign of her school's headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, thus saving herself, her beloved teacher Ms. Honey, and everyone else. I thought this even took place by Matilda, who has powers to make objects move, coordinating some knives to fly at the Trunchbull and end her. Maybe I misremember this or am thinking of another kids' read (although what would that be?). Maybe I just saw Stephen King's Carrie too much.
I honestly probably wouldn't have picked it up again had I known the ending.
Whatever. In the end, classic Dahl.