It's a Books World

Goodreads summary:

James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He's very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. At the end of the garden a peach starts to grow and GROW AND GROW. Inside that peach are seven very unusual insects - all waiting to take James on a magical adventure. But where will they go in their GIANT PEACH and what will happen to the horrible aunts if they stand in their way? There's only one way to find out . .

My opinion:

I really liked this story (obviously) and his aunts were so awful damn! I've never read it before nor have I seen the movie, so when I finished the book I watched the movie as well. The 1996 adaptation was okay; there were loads of things that were left out and added that didn't make sense. In the movie there's a transition between James as a real life person and an animation version of him. There are also more song in the movie than in the book, the cloud-men and the rainbow were left out in the movie and the ending was also different. Also; in the movie James talked a lot about New York and dreams and stuff, but in the book he doesn't talk about it, he just wants to ge out of his aunt's house and be free. The last thing that I noticed was the animation style; they animated the insects quite creepy and it was a bit weird how they put the animation together. However, I still enjoyed it, but it isn't my favorite Roald Dahl adaption. The book was much, much better.

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