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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: The Twits
Review: Imagine living in a dried out place in a house with no windows, just made out of steel blocks and a monkey cage. There are two characters, Mrs. Twit and Mr. Twit. They are ugly people. Mrs. Twit has a cane and she uses it to help herself walk. Mr. Twit gets food stuck in his beard. Their goal is to get revenge on each other. Their problem is when they pull pranks it is mean they do bad things. Some of their pranks are funny. I love when Mrs. Twit makes Mr. Twit's spaghetti out of worms. Ronald Dahl is like Jon Peterson when they write stories. I recommend ages 7-80 to read this book. I hope you like it!
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Summary: Disgusting! Dirty! Delightful!
Review: Meet the Twits, THE most disgusting couple in all of England... Perhaps even the whole world. Mr. Twit hasn't combed or washed his huge, shaggy beard in YEARS, and it's full of nasty bits of rotting food (the illustrator even has a close-up shot for those who really want to experience it!!). Mrs. Twit has a glass eye and years of thinking ugly thoughts has turned her into the most ugly woman one could imagine (this actually makes a good deal of sense, doesn't it??) The Twits hate everything, including each other. A plotting look from Mr. T provokes Mrs. T to put her glass eye into his beer. This causes him to pull a dirty trick on HER. Then back and forth, back and forth. Indeed, the author tells us we could go on like this forever with these two nasties. The book goes on to tell of the Twits's trained monkeys who are forced to stand on their heads for hours at a stretch, and of Mr. Twits's favorite dinner, bird pie (made by smearing glue on a dead tree and then cooking up every type of bird that gets stuck there). The monkeys go on to save flocks of birds and then play a most excellent trick on the Twits themselves!! The late Mr. Dahl is, of course, a genius of the wicked, strange and disgusting. This book is no exception! The Twits is a book that will make most grownups say, "ewww! Disgusting!" and most children say, "Hehehehe!! Cool!!" It's a fast-paced read and short, so it won't be intimidating to new readers. The illustrations are, like the story, frenetic and gross and therefore are a perfect compliment.
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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: 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!
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Summary: The Twits Crack Me Up!
Review: The Twits is a book by Roald Dahl. The Twits are husband and wife and although they are very funny, they are not too bright! Mr. Twit has a long, shaggy beard that has bits of rotten fish, apple, stale bread, etc. stuck in it. Mrs. Twit used to be very pretty when she was young, but she kept having frightening throughts and ended up as an ugly old hag! The Twits love to play mean tricks on each other. For example, one day Mr. Twit is enjoying a big, bubbly beer when Mrs. Twit pops out her glass eyeball and plops it into his mug. After spying the eyeball floating in his beer, Mr. Twit flees the scene leaving the mug and eye behind. She enjoys a good laugh. To get back at her, Mr. Twit puts a frog in her bed. Throughout the book they quarrel constantly, not with words, but by playing mean tricks on one another. My favorite trick was when Mr. Twit attached thin pieces of wood to the bottom of her cane and chair. Over time she thought she was shrinking. He (and I) had a good laugh. I enjoy reading books by Roald Dahl, and this one is among my favorites. In conclusion, I'll just tell you that the Twits end up with a "small" problem. If you read this book, you'll know what I mean by "small."
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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: The twits
Review: When I read the book called The Twits I thought it was very interesting. It was very extraordinary and exciting. It was also really gross when the writer, Roald Dahl, wrote about Mr. Twits beard. Mr. Twit never washed it and it had bits of food from many years ago in it. It's just a funny little book you can read in your spare time. Mr. and Mrs. Twit fight a lot by planning mean and nasty tricks on each other. I wonder why they are married? The twits aren't just ugly on the outside but on the inside as well! The Twits hate everyone and everything. They are mean to nature and animals. They have no care or respect for anyone, not even for themselves! They catch innocent birds and make them into bird pies.
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