To be honest, Pinocchio is the most insufferable, ungrateful, and gullible brat I've seen so far in children's literature. Poor Geppetto has to sit at home, while the boy runs around and gives up to temptations. All the lies build up, and each time Pinocchio's nose grows longer.

Not too convinced on this one. New characters are introduced only to disappear almost immediately. Didn't understand the point of them, maybe Collodi wanted more pages since it was originally serialized? And oh boy, the amount of ridiculous coincidences!

Anyway, the story was practically a bore. On the plus side, it was even weirder than Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and maybe a touch macabre. Or do you know a modern children's book where almost at the beginning of the story the main character's feet burn into cinders? That really is only the beginning...