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This I can definitely understand. Maybe if you read the book first you prefer it and vice versa. I mean, movie fans consider Kubrick's version of The Shining to be a masterpiece, yet Stephen King himself (and a lot of his fans) hates it because it's so different to the book. The only thing the two share is the names and the fact it takes place in a hotel, everything else is different and even the tone of each is different.

It's a recurring theme in pretty much all Roald Dahl books that there are always some vile, nasty characters in them. I mean, don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed them all when I was younger and still mostly do now but I still always felt a bit off about how over the top and almost cartoony evil a lot of the characters were in his books. Particularly most of the adult figures in them were either evil or negligent.



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