I gave it a try.
I read it.

I didn't like it!

I can't even really see that i see what other people love about it or how people see all those great lessons in this book, because what?? What lessons? Other then basically doing everything wrong and horrendous and as unrealistic as possible, this book doesn't teach anything??

Did i read the same book as everyone else?
By the way that is actually something i keep asking myself when i read Dahl books.

I think for me Dahl falls into the category of children's classics as Alice in Wonderland does.
Its too strange for me. Too unrealistic. Too extreme and out there.
And most importantly? I didn't grow up with it.
So there is no nostalgia.

Sometimes, especially with children's books overall but with classics especially i need the nostalgia to overlook a lot of the questionable things.
I guess that is the one thing that i can give other readers with this book?
And understand why they would love this book when they loved it as kids?
But at the same time what kind of kid where you that you read this and love this?
Are you okay?
Where you okay?
Maybe you should talk to someone if you love this book and enjoyed it as a kid as well??
Just sayin'!

Alright - to be covered i am now discussing a few details towards the end of the book so you might consider that SPOILERS but since apparently as long as a book is called a classic there is no such thing as a spoiler i am going with that method!

I mean a book where kids get turned into fast dying animals and nobody even tires to turn them back or even mentions that maybe someone should question what happened to the kids instead of just ignoring it all and letting it all go along just fine?
Or how about the thing that the grandma is just fine with the thought that her grandson might die at the same time as she? because that could possibly be the time his transformed body is capable of surviving? And thats okay?
In which universe is it okay for an adult to want a child to only live as long as they do??

I just have too many questions and too many issues that are not at all even tried to be answered with this book!

All in all for me this book is not a worth while read and not at all a good read for kids - its okay if you have other opinions on that, but for me this falls into the fairytale categories of why the heck would you subject a kid to that kind of horrible stuff? Let them get a bit older before you traumatize the kid! once they have been going to school for a few years, that happens all on their own as well, so why not just let it be that? Why do we need to traumatize them with this type of stories??

Clearly not a good one for me.
But at least know i know and i can from no on go on a ramble on what i didn't enjoy about it when someone asks (nobody does! Ever! But who cares?)