The BFG

After we read James and the Giant Peach Adam wanted to keep going with Roald Dahl so we picked up The BFG. Adam had read it at school last year and apparently loved it. I found the book to be dreadful. The novel is about a little girl who befriends a big friendly giant (the BFG) and the two plot together to stop the man eating giants. The story itself wasn't bad but I swear it was the most annoying children's novel I've ever read. The BFG is uneducated so he jumbles words up and it took longer to read because I was constantly having to slow down to read the gibberish that was always coming out of his mouth. I've heard people say they enjoyed this novel and perhaps I would have more if I was reading it silently to myself rather than out loud to my children. As a read aloud, I found it difficult to get through, each time we read was more painful than the last. I wish I could put a positive spin on it, but in truth I especially disliked this book.