The BFG
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Süß für den unschuldigen Verstand...
This is my first read for my Emma Watson Reading Challenge. I absolutely love Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is and always has been my favorite movie of all time, the old movie with Gene Wilder just as much as the new one with Johnny Depp, but unfortunately I haven’t read any other books by Roald Dahl yet, which is – I know – a shame. But since The BFG is one of the books I have on my Emma Watson Reading list I knew I wanted to make this my first read in this challenge and so I did and I regret nothing. I absolutely adored this book. It’s pretty short though; I read it on the train ride to Dusseldorf and back which was about 6 hours. This book is so joyful, delightful, honest, real and cute. It’s by far one of the cutest books I’ve ever read. Not only did I fall in love with little Sophie, who’s one of the greatest girls I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet in a book, but also with the BFG, the big friendly giant, who intrigued me with his own language from the first. When Sophie strolls around the children’s home she lives in because she can’t sleep, she sees something weird outside her window; a man as big as a house. Unfortunately the giant notices that Sophie saw him so he carries her off to the land of giants, where he lives with a few other giants, which are much bigger than he is. The thing is that all other giants eat humans, he’s the only giant who thinks it’s a bad thing to eat humans so while he keeps Sophie in his house because he’s too scared to let her go as he thinks that she would tell everyone about him and the land of the giants and people would start hunting him then, they become friends. Best friends. And while living side by side they try to figure out a way how to stop the other giants from eating human “beans”. Can I please just point out how much I love how he always says “human beans”? It’s the cutest thing and it made me laugh so hard people on the train stared at me like I was some crazy Person. Roald Dahl’s writing style is on point; it captivates me to no end. What I love so much about Roald Dahl and his books is that with every single one of his books he encourages kids to dream big. It’s important for kids to imagine and believe in the impossible; I mean we all did right? We believed in Santa Clause, in fairies, in goblins – when I was little I always believed that one day, when I’ve spent enough time in the ocean I could be a mermaid. Now, although I’m already 28 years old, I’m still a big kid at heart and sometimes, when I walk down the street and I trip and there’s obviously nothing there, not a stone, not anything, I want to believe that maybe it was a goblin or a fairy who made me trip. Or sometimes, when I can’t find my phone or my keys although I’m almost 100 % certain sure I put it on the table or whatever place, maybe it’s one of them too who have fun hiding stuff. You know, even if you’re grown up it is fun to believe in the impossible sometimes. I know that especially for adults it’s hard to believe in such things; to let their imagination carry them away to far away places. That is why I think even adults should read children’s books from time to time because it can remind us of how amazing it actually was to be a kid; how much fun it was to believe in all these fairytales. We should never forget about the magic; all these amazing adventures we went one as a kid – even if it was just in our imagination. Never stop believing … never. I absolutely loved how this normal little girl becomes friends with a giant and even with the Queen of England. I’ve already mentioned how much I loved BFG’s way of speaking but when he confused Charles Dickens with Dahl’s Chickens I laughed out so loud, I swear it was the funniest thing and I couldn’t stop laughing. The fact that the BFG describes how children from different countries taste like (children from Wales [whales] for example taste fishy etc. pp.) and that his fellow giants eat them and spit out the bones afterwards seemed kind of fun – to me. Not that I like the thought of giants walking around and eating children, no, of course not, only the fact that every human from every country tastes different (the ones from Jersey taste like sweater by the way) made me laugh out loud and the whole time I wondered what Germans would taste like. Like Sauerkraut? Or Germs maybe? That’d be disgusting though, if I was a giant I wouldn’t want to eat Germans then though haha Anyhow, what I wanted to say was that maybe for a kid that could be a little disturbing; maybe it could scare them a little but the whole eating children and spitting out the bones thing was never really described in much detail though, it was merely mentioned. Although the BFG’s way of speaking was fun to me, maybe it could give kids the impression that it’s fun to speak in such a messed up way though the giant obviously has some grammar problems throughout the entire book but in the end, Sophie finally teaches him how to speak the proper way so eventually he learns how to speak. Also some of the words can probably not be read, pronounced or understood by a seven or eight year girl/boy so that might be a bad thing too. I can see how some people have issues with this book, but nevertheless I personally absolutely loved and adored it. It was a quick and easy read, it seemed so honest and real, it was sweet and cute and a lot of fun and I enjoyed every single word of it. After finishing the book I immediately watched the movie and loved it just as much. I definitely prefer the ending from the book, which maybe was a lot crueler than the ending in the movie (that’s what my boyfriend said) but I still think the ending from the book fits the story better then the ending from the movie. I’m gonna give this book 4 stars. It’s definitely a book not only for kids, but also for teenagers and adults. I absolutely love Roald Dahl’s style and I can recommend this book to simply everyone.
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Süß für den unschuldigen Verstand...
This is my first read for my Emma Watson Reading Challenge. I absolutely love Roald Dahl. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is and always has been my favorite movie of all time, the old movie with Gene Wilder just as much as the new one with Johnny Depp, but unfortunately I haven’t read any other books by Roald Dahl yet, which is – I know – a shame. But since The BFG is one of the books I have on my Emma Watson Reading list I knew I wanted to make this my first read in this challenge and so I did and I regret nothing. I absolutely adored this book. It’s pretty short though; I read it on the train ride to Dusseldorf and back which was about 6 hours. This book is so joyful, delightful, honest, real and cute. It’s by far one of the cutest books I’ve ever read. Not only did I fall in love with little Sophie, who’s one of the greatest girls I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet in a book, but also with the BFG, the big friendly giant, who intrigued me with his own language from the first. When Sophie strolls around the children’s home she lives in because she can’t sleep, she sees something weird outside her window; a man as big as a house. Unfortunately the giant notices that Sophie saw him so he carries her off to the land of giants, where he lives with a few other giants, which are much bigger than he is. The thing is that all other giants eat humans, he’s the only giant who thinks it’s a bad thing to eat humans so while he keeps Sophie in his house because he’s too scared to let her go as he thinks that she would tell everyone about him and the land of the giants and people would start hunting him then, they become friends. Best friends. And while living side by side they try to figure out a way how to stop the other giants from eating human “beans”. Can I please just point out how much I love how he always says “human beans”? It’s the cutest thing and it made me laugh so hard people on the train stared at me like I was some crazy Person. Roald Dahl’s writing style is on point; it captivates me to no end. What I love so much about Roald Dahl and his books is that with every single one of his books he encourages kids to dream big. It’s important for kids to imagine and believe in the impossible; I mean we all did right? We believed in Santa Clause, in fairies, in goblins – when I was little I always believed that one day, when I’ve spent enough time in the ocean I could be a mermaid. Now, although I’m already 28 years old, I’m still a big kid at heart and sometimes, when I walk down the street and I trip and there’s obviously nothing there, not a stone, not anything, I want to believe that maybe it was a goblin or a fairy who made me trip. Or sometimes, when I can’t find my phone or my keys although I’m almost 100 % certain sure I put it on the table or whatever place, maybe it’s one of them too who have fun hiding stuff. You know, even if you’re grown up it is fun to believe in the impossible sometimes. I know that especially for adults it’s hard to believe in such things; to let their imagination carry them away to far away places. That is why I think even adults should read children’s books from time to time because it can remind us of how amazing it actually was to be a kid; how much fun it was to believe in all these fairytales. We should never forget about the magic; all these amazing adventures we went one as a kid – even if it was just in our imagination. Never stop believing … never. I absolutely loved how this normal little girl becomes friends with a giant and even with the Queen of England. I’ve already mentioned how much I loved BFG’s way of speaking but when he confused Charles Dickens with Dahl’s Chickens I laughed out so loud, I swear it was the funniest thing and I couldn’t stop laughing. The fact that the BFG describes how children from different countries taste like (children from Wales [whales] for example taste fishy etc. pp.) and that his fellow giants eat them and spit out the bones afterwards seemed kind of fun – to me. Not that I like the thought of giants walking around and eating children, no, of course not, only the fact that every human from every country tastes different (the ones from Jersey taste like sweater by the way) made me laugh out loud and the whole time I wondered what Germans would taste like. Like Sauerkraut? Or Germs maybe? That’d be disgusting though, if I was a giant I wouldn’t want to eat Germans then though haha Anyhow, what I wanted to say was that maybe for a kid that could be a little disturbing; maybe it could scare them a little but the whole eating children and spitting out the bones thing was never really described in much detail though, it was merely mentioned. Although the BFG’s way of speaking was fun to me, maybe it could give kids the impression that it’s fun to speak in such a messed up way though the giant obviously has some grammar problems throughout the entire book but in the end, Sophie finally teaches him how to speak the proper way so eventually he learns how to speak. Also some of the words can probably not be read, pronounced or understood by a seven or eight year girl/boy so that might be a bad thing too. I can see how some people have issues with this book, but nevertheless I personally absolutely loved and adored it. It was a quick and easy read, it seemed so honest and real, it was sweet and cute and a lot of fun and I enjoyed every single word of it. After finishing the book I immediately watched the movie and loved it just as much. I definitely prefer the ending from the book, which maybe was a lot crueler than the ending in the movie (that’s what my boyfriend said) but I still think the ending from the book fits the story better then the ending from the movie. I’m gonna give this book 4 stars. It’s definitely a book not only for kids, but also for teenagers and adults. I absolutely love Roald Dahl’s style and I can recommend this book to simply everyone.