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Title: It was OK as a kid, I despise it now
Review: Like most Roald Dahl books (for me, at least) I thought this was a pretty good book (...), but by only a few years later I've come to really hate it. For a Roald Dahl book Matilda is pretty good-it has an interesting plot, at least.Unfortunately aside from that I hate it. The characters are all either Mary-Sue's or horrible cardboard villains. Matilda is so annoyingly perfect, she taught herself to read as a baby, soon read the kids section of the library, is a complete genius, quite nice, and has telekinesis. Miss Honey, her teacher, is annoyingly sweet and smart. Headmistress Trunchbull and Matilda's parents are ridiculously mean with no attempt whatsoever to make them human and realistic, and no one bothers to explain why Trunchbull got her job or wasn't arrested for her horribleness. And the little humor it has is all dark.(...)
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