And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until it gets so ugly you can hardly bear to look at it.” (7) “If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. alone is enough to prove that Dahl’s stories could teach “the moral of the story”, and his advice is perfectly captured in Quentin Blake’s illustrations, making it all the more impactful. This book contained perhaps the most succinct bit of wisdom we’ve yet read in a Dahl book, and I’m glad for it. Unless you’re a Twit, in which case the story’s ending is pretty crummy.
The Twits ultimately take a dose of their own medicine (though it’s not enough to cure the Shrinks), and the story ends more happily than some of the other Dahl stories we’ve. Their escalating war of practical jokes reminded us much of Matilda, and certainly kept this one a page-turner throughout. The Twits are a miserably ugly couple with ugly thoughts and ugly behaviors. Twit through up a really clever, nasty trick.” Twit back for the worms in his spaghetti, Mr. Our copy’s cover art by Quentin Blake was enough to draw us in, but this back-cover tagline made the story irresistible: “To pay Mrs. After all, I’d seen some of the movies, so why read the books? Man was I missing out!įor our tenth Dahl book of the year, we went with this crazy little story about Mr. Although I had owned a few them on my shelves growing up, I just had never been tempted to read them. We’re on pace to make it, I think, though the next few promise to be a bit longer.Īs I’ve written elsewhere, I am brand new to Dahl’s books myself. In 2002 USAToday recognized us as \"1 of 10 Great Old Bookstores\", and we have been featured in numerous other newspaper and TV stories including Washington Post and CSpan.As we near December, the kids and I are trying to hurry up our reading to see if we can finish a good dozen of Roald Dahl books this year. Our retail stores have always been places where a reader can rush in looking for a title needed for a term paper that is due the next day, or where bibliophiles can get lost \"in the stacks\" for as long as they wish. A merging of the old and new is where we started, and it is where we are today. ALL kinds of books from 95 cent children\'s paperbacks to five figure rare and collectibles. Since 1980 it has always been about the books.
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