A Great Children's Writer

Yes, I don't agree with some of his views (particularly his anti-Semitic sentiments), but unlike a lot of today's childrens authors, Dahl is truly great because he didn't try to push any agendas. He just wrote stuff that he thought was fun, imaginative, whimsical and occasionally a little misanthropic. He didn't try to brainwash kids, and his books weren't full of dull, turgid, episodic, Lord of the Rings/Harry Potter style A-to-B-to-C type 'adventures'. No, his books actually had original and inspired ideas and structures.

So when I see santimonious, smug and frankly much lesser children's writers, like a certain bald, up-his-own-ass, upper-middle-class, Oxbridge, snooty, militant-atheist* propagandist hack, talk down Dahl's work and suggest kids "should read better authors", it makes my blood boil. 😠

PS: FWIW, I am an atheist (not for any political reason, but simply because I don't believe in it). I just don't like anti-religious propaganda BS being shoved down my throat any more than I care for pro-religious indoctrination. I prefer people to be allowed to make their own minds about religion.