The Twits

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Summary: I read a book whose name is "the Twits"
Review: I read a book whose name is " The twits". I found this book in the library in this university. So, I will recommend you to read this book, if you have a free time. In this book, there is one couple whose name is Mr. Twist and Mrs. Twist. They didn't get along with because of their bad thought . And they are always making a trick together, For example Mr. Twist put a flog in Mrs. Twist's bed.. She got angry but she didn't said that she got angry, and , she cooked a spaghetti for her husband, but, it include worms. and the tricks didn't not end. I think, they must divorce. This book is short one so, I didn't take much time for finish it. I like it because the story was fun for me.

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Summary: This is a cool book
Review: I read this book in 6th grade. I thought this book was great. It also made me laugh

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Summary: this book is great
Review: This book i enjoyed very much. I loved how it was really funny, and every chapter made me laugh. It was a easy to read book and it was really imaginative. the only things i didnt like is that the chapters were really short and the begginig to almost the end all they did were jokes on each other for a while. But over all it was a great book.

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Summary: Roald Dahl has a zany sense of humor!
Review: Our book review is about a book called "The Twits" by Roald Dahl. We think this book is appropriate for third and fourth graders. Some 2nd graders and also some 5th graders might enjoy it. We would say "The Twits" is a comedy, because it has really funny words like 'gnash', 'gnozzle', 'batty', 'nutty', 'screwy' and 'wacky'! In the story this old, greasy, grimy, grumpy couple play very nasty tricks on each other. Some of us think they're even evil! The tricks are hilarious, but no one ever gets hurt or killed. The story takes place in the Twit's windowless house that looks like a prison. It also takes place in Mrs. Twit's ugly garden. The garden is full of stinging nettles, thorns, and a big, huge, dead tree. The main characters are the Twits, a monkey family, and the Roly-Poly Bird. The main problem is the Twits are abusive to each other and everyone else in the book, but in a funny way. For example, four boys get glued to the dead tree by their pants after Mr. Twit puts glue on the tree to catch birds. We would recommend this book because Roald Dahl's sense of humor is so zany it made us want to read more of his stories.

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Summary: Grossly funny
Review: In one of those strange coincidences of life, I happened to be reading recently about the upcoming movie "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", and noticed that it was based on a story by Roald Dahl. This was of course after I read everything the article said about Johnny Depp, but I digress.

Shortly after that, I picked up a copy of the movie "James and the Giant Peach" - also from a book by the same author.

The final piece fell into place when I attended a book sale, and came across a table of books in the children's section, and lo and behold, there was a selection of books by Roald Dahl, all in readable print with the cute little "Puffin" logo on them.

Needless to say, the cashier thinks I have a lot of kids who like to read, as I didn't exactly let on that I was buying this huge pile of children's books for myself.

This book is a lightning-quick read, even for a child, and it's full of gross hygiene deficiencies, practical jokes and mischievous monkeys. Mr. Twit has the nastiest, ugliest beard known to mankind, the only thing nastier and uglier being Mrs. Twit with her glass eye. They take pleasure in playing horrible practical jokes on each other, being unpleasant to their four pet monkeys, and catching birds to make bird pie.

Of course, nasty people cannot be expected to come to a good end, and the monkeys craftily strategize to turn the tables on the horrible couple.

The underlying moral here is that no matter what you look like physically, if you have good thoughts, they will shine right through and make you a beautiful person, and of course the opposite also unfortunately applies.

Be nice to someone today and let the sunlight stream from your face.

Amanda Richards, February 17, 2005

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Summary: Not one of Roald Dahl's Best
Review: I love Roald Dahl, but this just isn't one of his best. Mr. & Mrs. Twit, the main character's are not very nice, and when they perform cruel practical jokes on each other you really don't have much sympathy for either one since you aren't meant to really like them. Some of the jokes are classics however, such as making the wife's cane a little longer each night, and her chair a little taller each day so that she thinks she is shrinking. I've seen several television shows do take offs on this joke over the years to try to get someone to believe they were shrinking, or doing it in reverse so that they believe they are getting taller. The Twit's also own a family of monkeys they obtained while working in the circus, and the father monkey's name is Muggle-Wump. ((This book was written in 1980 and I'm curious if J.K. Rowlings (the writer of "Harry Potter") got her name for humans "muggles" from reading this book.)) Muggle-Wump is a smart monkey, and with the help of his family and of some birds, lead by an African Bird named the Roly-Poly Bird, they get revenge on the Twits for the cruel treatment they have been given, and turn the Twit's world upside down.

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Summary: A tirade against beards
Review: Roald Dahl was anti beards. The Twits originated from an idea jotted down in his notebook. It simply read 'do something against beards'. Thus the character of Mr Twit was born. He had a big, dirty hairy beard that bits of food would stick to. Whenever he was hungry he would stick out his tongue and lap up the morsels of food stuck in the hairs on his face. See Quentin Blake's graphic illustration of this. Truly Mr Twit was a disgusting man.

His wife, Mrs Twit was also disgusting, both physically and emotionally. The Twits play all sorts of ghastly tricks on each other involving glass eyes, worms, frogs and other nasty things. The tricks the Twits play on each other are very entertaining. Halfway through the book, Roald Dahl writes 'But that's enough of that. We can't go on forever watching these two disgusting people doing disgusting things to each other'. A shame. I could go on and on reading about their beastly plans they have in store for each other.

Justice is done though. The Twits come to, quite literally, a very sticky end courtesy of the Roly-Poly Bird and the Muggle-Wump monkeys. Their scheme to bring down the Twits is ingenious. Read it for yourself to find out...

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Summary: this book is great
Review: The Twits are hilarous. After reading the book to my students they became hooked on Roald Dahl books. They just had to read other of his books. The pratical jokes the Twits play on each other is my students favorite part. I highly recommend this book and any other book written by Roald Dahl!