Ronald Dahl Censored


marsey

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Not surprising, but clearly f***ing ridiculous.

Not surprising, but clearly f***ing ridiculous.

And there's my post censored. Dear me...
 
Tricky one, some of his books were brilliant, but it does turn out that he was a bit of a nazi.

A particular favourite of mine and the kids (when they were small)
The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. She whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creature's head And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead. A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No silly hood upon her head. She said, 'Hello, and do please note 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
 
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Not really all that arsed. I’d imagine those outraged by things they think of as woke, and use the word as an insult will be furious though. Bet most of them haven’t read a book in decades.

If anything I’m against it but it’s probably a capitalist driven decision. If it impacts the profits then it’ll change back. Just like they did when they changed Enid Blyton.

I loved Dahl as a kid and occasionally read some these days. The extremes of it were part of the appeal as a kid, like a kid trying to blow up his grandmother.

I think Dahl would be laughing his cock off about it all though.
 
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Found this ridiculous but then I was reading something from a publisher off the back of it to suggest this isn't particularly out of the ordinary, apparently publishers adapt books all the time to appeal to contemporary mores. Have done for decades.
 
Are people ignoring the point that it was his estate that chose to do this? And that no one has been cancelled?
Aye but it’s handy to stir culture war stuff. That’s why the government have released a statement. It’ll pick up more and more as we move towards an election.

Stay tuned for the predictable ones being outraged.
 
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Its ridiculous. Ive read these to my nieces and nephew and they love them

Dahl was undoubtedly a troubled guy but none of that comes through in his books

Antisemitic statements - yes

Fell in love with nurse who helped him after he had plane crash but dumped her when he got his sight back - yes

But those books are classics
 

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