A week on the beach
wouldn’t be the same without a couple of good books, and I read the Wizard of Oz books (Well, six of them, anyway) online., on my Treo, here.
I was quite pleased to find them, and they are a good read, after all these years.
Monday 17 Aug 2009
One political allegory plus who knows how many sequels full of Teh Weird. That’s about all I remember of TWOZ from my kidhood.
The Mary Poppins books, OTOH – now those are some weird sh*t. I’ll take the Disney version any day. Any book where an old lady breaks off her fingers and gives them to the kids because they’re made of candy goes in the “no thank YOU” file.
The Doctor Doolittle books are also not at all what you would think after watching Rex Harrison…or the more recent (and to my mind, inferior) Will Smith vehicle.
Than there is Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (otherwise known as “Willy Wanka”) the darker Tim Burton movie version, is truer to the book. But, considering all that is happening in real life these days, it’s looking more and more like a light hearted comedy romp.
Now Dahl I always liked — his stuff was weird, but it was edgy, intelligent weird. Matilda, The Witches, CatCF — plus his short stories were especially good.
Anyone ever read Isaac Bashevis Singer?