Matilda
by Roald Dahl
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Read in January, 1989
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One of my favorite childhood books. I remember admiring how ridiculous things would be - but that the author would acknowledge it in a way that was both dark but maintained the humor. Like the Trunchbull shot-putting children by their hair which, when Matilda and her friend wonder why children don't complain to their parents, it's pointed out that it's so insane that no one would believe them.
Matilda's a tricksy little girl - but she's just that, a little girl. Sometimes you'd think her i...more
Matilda's a tricksy little girl - but she's just that, a little girl. Sometimes you'd think her i...more
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Read in November, 2007
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Dad, and momrecommends it for: Mr Tony and M5 students
This book is about a girl who is just 4 and is already a genius. Her parents dislike her and call her names. Her teacher, Miss Honey, thinks that Matilda is a very bright girl and can advance to the next grade. But the headmistress, a fierce and angry bull, named Miss Agatha Trunchbull, stopped Miss Honey. Miss Honey told Matilda's parents about her. But did not care. Matilda always thought that Miss Honey was a great teacher, and visited her too. She then realised, that Miss Trunchbull, is h...more
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Read in January, 1986
This book was almost *too* stimulating, too gloriously gratifying, when first I read it at a tender age: it's repulsively trite of me to say this, but I felt that it had been written expressly for me.
Just a few of its attractions:
- a fiendishly, freakishly precocious protagonist, whose precocity is depicted as a source of both value and supernatural powers. We're supposed to love Matilda *because* she's smart (a welcome relief from the nerd-bashing and suffocating averagene...more
Just a few of its attractions:
- a fiendishly, freakishly precocious protagonist, whose precocity is depicted as a source of both value and supernatural powers. We're supposed to love Matilda *because* she's smart (a welcome relief from the nerd-bashing and suffocating averagene...more
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Read in February, 2006
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all children (and adults!)
I love this story! I love how intelligent Matilda is and how she uses that to overcome her surroundings. Roald Dahl has a brilliant way of telling stories that I just love! 02/03/2006
Quote: "School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the times comes to write the end-of-term reports. If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents. "Your son M...more
Quote: "School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the times comes to write the end-of-term reports. If I were a teacher I would cook up some real scorchers for the children of doting parents. "Your son M...more
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Read in January, 1989
My mother volunteered at my school in what had to be ... 2nd grade. She worked in the library and found this book, and the cover made her think of me. I'm not sure if I had read anything else by Roald Dahl, I MAY have seen the movie The Witches by then.
But this book with a little tiny girl on the cover, just surrounded by books, was me. I fell in love with it and promptly began devouring everything Roald Dahl had ever written. But I don't think ANYTHING else could top this book for me.
Ma...more
But this book with a little tiny girl on the cover, just surrounded by books, was me. I fell in love with it and promptly began devouring everything Roald Dahl had ever written. But I don't think ANYTHING else could top this book for me.
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Read in January, 2007
This book " Matilda" written by Roald Dahl is a fictional but interesting book. The main characters in this story are Matilda, Miss Honey and Miss Trunchbull.
Matilda is a genius: by age four she has read all the books in the children's section of her local library, and moved on to Dickens, Austen, and Hemingway. She can also do advanced math in her head and has a sophisticated understanding of the world. Unfortunately her crooked car-dealer father and bingo-holic mother, TV addicts...more
Matilda is a genius: by age four she has read all the books in the children's section of her local library, and moved on to Dickens, Austen, and Hemingway. She can also do advanced math in her head and has a sophisticated understanding of the world. Unfortunately her crooked car-dealer father and bingo-holic mother, TV addicts...more
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Read in January, 1997
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Mum bought me itrecommends it for: All children, some adults, anyone with a good imagination
Matilda... well what can I say. This is embarrassing but... I AM Matilda. At least I was, when, aged eight, I read ten library books a week and was obsessed with every single book I could get my hands on. I adored Roald Dahl, and I adored this book.
Roald Dahl has got a brilliant, unique voice which I think most adults (in my experience) just don't get, but kids naturally love and understand. His stories are full of relatable charaters but magic, wonder, gooey gross stuff (kids love that) an...more
Roald Dahl has got a brilliant, unique voice which I think most adults (in my experience) just don't get, but kids naturally love and understand. His stories are full of relatable charaters but magic, wonder, gooey gross stuff (kids love that) an...more
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I loved this book. Matilda lived in a very weird family because her parents didn't want her. They always had TV dinner but Matilda wanted to read...so she always went to the library. She was sent to school with a really mean principal. Fortunately, Matilda had a nice teacher named Ms. Honey. Matilda was really smart and there were lots of kids who wanted to be her friend. Her brother was mean, though. It was very interesting because it turned out that Matilda had magical powers..like telekinesis...more
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Read in September, 2007
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People who like to read anything
This book is about a little girl called Mathilda. Mathilda is four years old and she is the youngest in her family which is Mrs.Morwood , Mr. Wormwood , Mike and Mathilda . Mr. and Mrs. wormwood do not worry about their daughter very much!Mr. wormwood is triking peopel whith cars and the rest of the day the whole family ectually sits infront of the Television . The whole Afternoon there would only be Mathilda in the big house , her other played Bingo ,Her father was at work and Mike at school.M...more
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Read in November, 2007
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I can't believe that I'd never read this book as a child! Roald Dahl was one of my favorite authors, though I think he and I had a falling out after I read Danny, Champion of the World when I was in ax. 4th grade - I'm not sure why since I liked reading about Danny and his father living in their caravan. Since the 2nd grade when my teacher Mrs. Stabenow read The Boxcar Children to us, I wanted desperately to live in a boxcar & living in a caravan was very nearly the same thing! I remember no...more
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Read in June, 2008
Her parents were very mean. Miss Trunchbowl, the headmistress was mean, too. Every day when Matilda's mother went to Bingo, Matilda went to the library. Miss Phelps was the librarian. I liked Miss Phelps. She was nice to Matilda. She picked books out for her. First she picked books out of the children's section, and Matilda read them all. And then she went to the grownup books. When she arrived at kindergarten she could do all the tables up to 12, and she could add numbers like a flash of lightn...more
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Read in March, 2008
Matilda is a small girl who's parents never took much care of her and never once had pay much of attention to her even though she was being discovered as a genuis. At the age of three Matilda had taught herself how to read and by the time she goes to school she have read almost all the complex adult novels. Matilda is obviously too smart to be taught with the children her own age, but her evil headmistress, Miss Trunchbull doesn't believe her and insisted her to be taught with all the other chil...more
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Read in August, 2006
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nobody did. i found the book in a bookstore and i just thought recommends it for: anybody in goodreads
wow...while i read this book i was just clearly wandering through the imagination and the adventorous mind of Matilda! it's just so obvious that Roald Dahl was such a notorious genius. He brought me to a amazing world of children and grown-ups altogether, it combined as a wonderful music that just flew and waltzed around my brain. I couldn't stop flipping the pages before the last page's secret has revealed, and it's just completely astonishing!
My favorite part is when Matilda figured out h...more
My favorite part is when Matilda figured out h...more
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Oh Roald Dahl, you make my life complete. Matilda is one of those books for me. One of the books in my bookshelf, tattered and worn, pages falling out, that I will always go back to, no matter what the occasion. Dear, darling Miss Honey, Matilda's first grade teacher, is ever child's dream, and now that I'm older, every adult's dream as well. Miss Honey lives in a two room cottage with no running water, a camp stove, and wooden boxe...more
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recommends it for:
kids who feel "different" because they're smart.
Why is this book so much less-read than Charlie? Is it because the main character is a little girl, instead of a little boy? I kind of think that maybe it is. I can't help but feel that if it were published today, it would get a LOT more attention.
Matilda, like Charlie, is born into an unfortunate situation, but it's inverted: where Charlie lives in poverty with a loving family, Matilda lives with a financially secure, but beastly, horrible family. And she's a genius among morons. Sh...more
Matilda, like Charlie, is born into an unfortunate situation, but it's inverted: where Charlie lives in poverty with a loving family, Matilda lives with a financially secure, but beastly, horrible family. And she's a genius among morons. Sh...more
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Read in January, 1989
This was the first novel I ever read. I distinctly remember being in third grade and thinking I really related to the character. This book was the beginning for me... it started my love affair with reading.
Matilda has such a wry sense of humor and is so wise beyond her years. She exists in a completely different world from the one in which she lives in, and manages to find refuge with the single good person in her life. The fact that she gets to stay with Miss Honey in the end is really ...more
Matilda has such a wry sense of humor and is so wise beyond her years. She exists in a completely different world from the one in which she lives in, and manages to find refuge with the single good person in her life. The fact that she gets to stay with Miss Honey in the end is really ...more
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Read in January, 1988
Beyond early memories of Dr. Suess, Richard Scary and the Berenstein Bear books, the first 'real' book I remember reading is Matilda.
It's quite telling of my personality that the book has stayed in my memory for so long as one of my ultimate favorites. I was six, I think, when I first read it - and I WAS Matilda. I was that tiny, waifish bookworm who no one at school understood. Thankfully I had good parents, but my classmates made up for that.
I believe Matilda inspired my fascination wi...more
It's quite telling of my personality that the book has stayed in my memory for so long as one of my ultimate favorites. I was six, I think, when I first read it - and I WAS Matilda. I was that tiny, waifish bookworm who no one at school understood. Thankfully I had good parents, but my classmates made up for that.
I believe Matilda inspired my fascination wi...more
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Read in November, 2007
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This book is about a girl who is a genius when she is only 4 years old. Her parents doesn't like her, but her teacher, Miss Honey, adores her and thinks that Matilda is a very bright girl and can advance to the next grade. On the other hand, the headmistress, a fierce and angry bull, named Miss Agatha Trunchbull, stopped Miss Honey. Miss Honey told Matilda's parents about her, but they didn't care.
I would hate to be in Matilda's place when nobody listens to her, not even her own parents. The...more
I would hate to be in Matilda's place when nobody listens to her, not even her own parents. The...more
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This is a book about a little girl who has these weird powers and is really smart but gets stuck with these horrible parents. Her parnts finally get her go to school. Were she meets the sweetest teacher Ms.Honey. She also meets the horrible Ms.Trunchbull. Even though she is a teachers pet and a nerd she has lots of friends. Matilda and Ms.Honey go in to Ms.Trunchbulls house which is really Ms.Honey's house. They went in to get Ms.honey's old doll back. They both get rid o...more
This is a book about a little girl who has these weird powers and is really smart but gets stuck with these horrible parents. Her parnts finally get her go to school. Were she meets the sweetest teacher Ms.Honey. She also meets the horrible Ms.Trunchbull. Even though she is a teachers pet and a nerd she has lots of friends. Matilda and Ms.Honey go in to Ms.Trunchbulls house which is really Ms.Honey's house. They went in to get Ms.honey's old doll back. They both get rid o...more
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Read in January, 1993
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I think I read every Roald Dahl book there was in 3rd and 4th grade, so I'll spare a review for each one. Dahl inspired me as a little kid; all the magic and kids-against-adversity made me feel that mine was not such a hopeless situation. I was given a copy of the Witches as my first foray into Dahl, but I think the BFG remains my favorite. The BFG reminds me of my dad, and that meant the world to me when we weren't living together. It still does, and I haven't read these books since Elementary ...more
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