So I didn't get to the goal I set (100 views, 2 comments) well the 100 views part I did, but I reviewed The Twits anyway, because, well why not? Okay, here it is: (apologies for any typos)
The Twits
Book Review
The Twits is a children’s bestseller by Roald Dahl, first published in 1980 by Jonathan Cape. Like most of Roald Dahl’s books, it was illustrated by Quentin Blake. It has 270 pages and the price is roughly €3,00.
Characters
Mr Twit is a very ugly, hairy-faced man who never washes and is very cruel.
Mrs Twit is even more ugly and she has very ‘ugly’ thoughts as well, she has a walking stick and a glass eye.
The Roly-Poly bird is a colourful African bird who often visits England.
The Muggle-Wump monkeys are a family of four monkeys also originating from Africa.
Story
The Twits is a hilariously vile novel by one of the best writers in the world, from having worms in spaghetti and eyeballs in drinks to floating into the air on balloons and sticking birds to trees, this book has a ridiculous brilliance to it.
The book starts with an introduction called Hairy Faces, It’s basically Roald Dahl questioning why anybody would want to grow a beard.
After this, the book starts by explaining Mr and Mrs Twit’s personalities.
The next part is mainly Mr. and Mrs. Twit playing practical jokes and tricks against each other. The last trick is when Mr Twit releases his wife into the air on a load of helium balloons.
Mr Twit has four monkeys called the Muggle-Wumps that he trains for a circus. Every Wedsnday Mr and Mrs Twit capture birds for a pie by putting glue on the tree which they roost on.
One day the Roly-Poly bird comes to England for a holiday and frees the Muggle-Wumps who make a plan, for revenge against the Twits
Conclusion
This book is one of Roald Dahl’s bests, I doubt you could improve it very much, it is extremely entertaining, yet Roald Dahl shows the Twits as completely oblivious to each other’s and the monkey’s trickery, which is quite irritating. I would rate this book a 7/10.
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