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Monday LOL Book

  • May. 5th, 2008 at 8:34 AM
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LOL books turn one year old at the end of this month. We can haz birthday cake plz? Previous LOL books are available at http://jimhines.livejournal.com/tag/lol.

Today's LOL book is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory [Amazon | Mysterious Galaxy], by Roald Dahl.

I think this is one of those LOLs that people will either stare blankly or laugh their backsides off. Hopefully more of the latter than the former...

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[info]lalam wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 12:38 pm (UTC)
I'm reading it to my 4 year old daughter! We read about two/three chapters a night!
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[info]jimhines wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 12:41 pm (UTC)
::Grin:: I read it to mine a few years back. We still haven't read the Glass Elevator, though...
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[info]lalam wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 12:59 pm (UTC)
AND I had to get the version with Quentin Blake's illustrations. It's a must in my house (tho' the cover is different than this one). I also bought Matilda, because I LOVE that story! We'll read it after Charlie.
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[info]mrissa wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 12:40 pm (UTC)
& mai Bukkit haz a goldn tikkit!
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[info]silverrose wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 01:15 pm (UTC)
*blank stare*

Just in case you were keeping score ;)
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[info]jimhines wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 01:17 pm (UTC)
Charlie's last name is Bucket. But you'd have to remember that from the book/movie in order to get it...
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[info]silverrose wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 01:20 pm (UTC)
*bwahah* Ok, thanks! Now, that makes it really funny...
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[info]jhetley wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 01:21 pm (UTC)
And, while I read the book to both sons numerous times, that connection escaped me. But that was long ago, in a far-away land...
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[info]desperance wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 05:59 pm (UTC)
Also, my first encounter with Quentin Blake was his illustrations to the Uncle stories by J P Martin; and Uncle is an elephant who drinks his cocoa from a bucket. Which is more abstruse and less relevant, but I can never see QB pics without remembering Uncle. And his bukkit.
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[info]ginasketch wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 01:50 pm (UTC)
Roald Dahl is god. Not was god. IS.
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[info]sistercoyote wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 04:25 pm (UTC)
Well, I laughed.

And then my brain went all the places it usually goes with Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka, which is never pretty.
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[info]jimhines wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 11:39 pm (UTC)
There is a vibe to the whole thing that's a little ... off ... isn't there?
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[info]sistercoyote wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 11:42 pm (UTC)
Well, it's Dahl, so I'd expect it to be a little off from the get-go. But I think the real problem is the movie (and not the Johnny Depp remake, either). Brilliant, brilliant acting by Gene Wilder, but he also brought out a lot of those texts that were sub in the book.

As an adult, of course. But then again, I couldn't watch the movie as a kid because Agustus Gloob getting sucked up the chocolate tube scared the dickens right out of me. Not to mention the boat in the tunnel, which as an adult is one of my favorite film scenes, ever.

Hi, I'm sistercoyote, and I'm nervous so apparently my habit of babbling also extends to my typing.
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[info]jimhines wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 11:44 pm (UTC)
Heh. For me, it was the Oompa Loompas. I caught part of the movie on TV at a friend's house, and was freaked out for many years afterward...
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[info]sistercoyote wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 11:48 pm (UTC)
Oddly, the Oompa Loompas never bothered me. They probably should have.

And of course I still run around the house singing: "I want the world! I want the whole world! I want to wear in my braids in my hair and I don't want to share it!"

Hm. Trying to instill good behavior by showing outrageous consequences for bad behavior.

And Grampa Bucket rocks.
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[info]bodlon wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 07:01 pm (UTC)
OMG. Roald Dahl.

I keep meaning to track down his more adult books. I get the impression I'd love them in a Graham Greene sort of way.
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[info]antonstrout wrote:
May. 5th, 2008 08:10 pm (UTC)
I think I pulled something groaning...
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[info]daydreammuse wrote:
May. 7th, 2008 05:41 am (UTC)
A BUKKIT!! Hilarious! Good job on this one. I never knew word play could be so ingenous.
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[info]joolliee wrote:
May. 7th, 2008 08:02 am (UTC)
LOL!! That is hilarious.
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory was one of the first novels I ever read as a kid. :o)
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