With The BFG, Steven Spielberg's CGI-enabled adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, hitting theaters this weekend, you'll forgive me for waxing nostalgic about the pleasures of childhood reading. If you're planning to see the movie or not (I'm leaning toward not--current reviews are meh), just a glimpse of the trailer may send you, like me, into a full misty-eyed spiral. After all, there are few books in the Western canon more beloved than Dahl's tale of a friendly, gibberish-spewing, ...
With The BFG, Steven Spielberg's CGI-enabled adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, hitting theaters this weekend, you'll forgive me for waxing nostalgic about the pleasures of childhood reading. If you're planning to see the movie or not (I'm leaning toward not--current reviews are meh), just a glimpse of the trailer may send you, like me, into a full misty-eyed spiral. After all, there are few books in the Western canon more beloved than Dahl's tale of a friendly, gibberish-spewing, ...
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