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Semi-contrarian position here - I've never liked Dahl, and I was always annoyed by how he was pushed on me by the literary types in early school (the same ones that wanted me to read The Great Gatsby and The Stranger eventually). But I think that those people had some goal behind pushing him, and perhaps that goal is consistent with the rewriting? Something about kids who feel like outsiders (maybe???)?

Very different, e.g., than Kipling or The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe?

>>ckemer+(OP)
Even if you dislike Dahl, the idea that we need to "update" 60 yo books for the sensibilities of our time is dystopian, and dangerous.

Would you like your favourite author's work edited post mortem? Look at the changes made... They're asinine, and there's hundreds of them.

>>ckemer+(OP)
"Pushed on" you how, exactly? Mostly he is read for pleasure, as my impression has it.