Another re-read for the fun of it!This story pulls the reader to the edge, injecting silliness, fear, and all-around revenge into a larger plot that will have children giggling and washing their faces in short order. What is a twit? Not so easy to explain, is it? Well, Dahl seeks to provide the reader with a slight understanding by offering up some of their hygienic deficiencies (especially among the men whose hairy faces are receptacles for anything that could land therein), persistent ugliness...

The Twits by Roald Dahl is the usual funny and clever fare that we get from this much-celebrated author. A short read it is about a married couple, The Twits, who rarely see eye to eye, plainly don't get along and lead sad, miserable lives which they feel the need to take out on the rest of the world.To show the brilliance of Dahl as an author is easy. The Twits, as a couple, are offensive, unkind and plain rude yet the read is fun and enjoyable. Some of the content nobody else could get away wi...

One of my favourite books.A lil gruesome but so funny. A sheer delight to read.Such a memorable book. I will treasure.

I feel full of the joys of spring! This was such a delightful little book. My morbid, inner kid couldn't have been more ecstatic! Should I call someone a twit or a nitwit? I guess, no. That would be very rude of me! My doppelgänger would approve otherwise. And since I'm not like my sinister doppelgänger, I would leave all the sheer nastiness to him along with Mr. and Mrs. Twit, who are also quite repulsive, if you ask me. I'd rather have pleasant thoughts rather than wicked ones. "If a person

Dahl's The Twits is at its finest during the first half of the book which relates various highlights in the comedy of cruelty that is the marriage between the two eponymous grotesques, Mr and Mrs Twit. When Mrs Twit isn't serving Mr Twit a bowl of worms or hiding her glass eye in his after-supper beer, and when Mr Twit isn't playing a fucked-up mind game on Mrs Twit - such as carving away an inch of his wife's cane, day by day, so that he can trick her into thinking she is slowly but surely shri...

An allegory on post-Communist Götterdämmerung qua Joseph Stalin or an attack on hairy-faced men? or We can only speculate.

Unfortunately, I don't have any rose-tinted glasses for this one. So, as an adult, all I could think of is, "Dahl, what were you on??" Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever. The Twits are ugly people - through and through. They think nothing of animal neglect or outright abuse. They are horrible to each other and everyone around them. They own a troop of trained monkeys and take particular delight in forcing the poor animals into

“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” I do love this quote. The Twits are the epito...

Twits are ugly people who do horrible things to each other and others. They are not nice, and they are negative people who have been negative so long that the negativity has made them ugly. On Monday I was going to write a review that just said that I'm a twit. Which isn't really true, I'm generally a only a slightly negative person, bordering on neutral and I don't do things intentionally to try to cause other people harm. Sometimes I do turn incredibly negative though and then I come out swing...

Who doesn’t love a good villain? And Mr and Mrs Twit are a delightfully nasty pair! When they’re not having a go at one another - she mixing in live worms into his spaghetti, he trying to send her off into space with balloons - they’re trying to eat children, actually eating the local bird populace and torturing a family of monkeys. Then one day the monkeys decide to push back… The Twits still holds up as one of my favourite Roald Dahl books. Dahl’s speciality is over-the-top baddies and he deli...

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.This quote is one of the biggest reasons why I g...

My birds and I got into a big literary debate this morning. The book was Dahl's The Twits. Lester the Molestor maintains that I would be more delicious in a pie. My vote is for a hearty bird pie. You are what you eat. Who would want to be me? There is a big hungry gator waiting for us to decide. She said we might settle it over a scrabble game... We lost. It was Lester's fault! He doesn't know enough Q words....I'm scared.I swear to myself (and on a stack of bibles) that I had already reviewed T...

This book is made of horrible people pulling horrible pranks on each other. In the first half, husband and wife love each other so much that they feed the other worms, convince them they are shrinking and are going to disappear, and other wholesome stuff. In the second part, they get pranked by upside-down monkeys because they like to stick birds to trees to make Bird Pie. I mean, yeah it sounds pretty awful but I must admit I read worse, this was actually kinda funny. Or am I just lowering my e...

I read a lot of Roald Dahl books as a child, and have read quite a few more to my own children, most recently to my disabled youngest daughter. The Twits was one of those.The Twits, although it has its moments, is one of my least favourite Dahl books, perhaps the least favourite.It's easy to be too po-faced about humour in children's books, and perhaps my reaction is coloured by the knowledge that Dahl was not a particularly pleasant man and had some rather nasty opinions ... but even so, my rea...

this is the book that contains this page:enough said.this is part of a project i am doing where i review books i read a long time ago, and also prove once and for all that i do not have a way with words.

If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.-The Twits, Roald Dahl

ENGLISH (The Twits)/ ITALIANO«What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around nowadays»Ugly, dirty and bad. It's not about the movie of Ettore Scola about the slums, with Nino Manfredi as memorable protagonist. We are talking, instead, about the Twits, Mr and Mrs Twits, spending their days tremendously pranking each other with jokes of unnecessary cruelty. Mr Twits, moreover, has his own dreams: training monkeys to carry out acts upside down. In short, the Twits are evil.But revenge comes as a ju...

I originally read this book in either elementary school or middle school and really enjoyed it. Since I am reading all of Roald Dahl's books again, I thought "why not," and re-read this one. Surprisingly, I don't remember this story at all. This book is about the grossest couple: Mr. and Mrs. Twit. They are the smelly and ugly. They hate everything! They even hate each other and they keep pulling pranks on each other. They're mean! They catch innocent birds to put in their Bird Pies and make the...

My kid's grandparents gave my kid a Roald Dahl collection for Christmas, so now I'm reading the stories out loud. This was the book where I'm starting to regret the whole thing.There's some funny stuff in this book but wow is it mean, especially in the first half.About halfway, the story falls apart and becomes something much more random. I didn't like that. It felt like Dahl couldn't stretch the escalation anymore so just gave up. (My kid stayed interested because suddenly, there were monkeys a...

"What a lot of hairy-faced men there are around these days. When a man grows hair all over his face it is impossible to tell what he really looks like. Perhaps that's why he does it.He'd rather you didn't know. Then there's the problem with washing."What an opportune time to read 'The Twits' with so many Mr Twit clones around. Roald had the right idea. They're dirty shifty buggers who paint trees in glue to catch birds and torture monkeysYes, hipsters torture monkeys. But they did it before it w...