mxhermit's reviews
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I remember reading the original books when I was younger. I enjoyed them very much. This adaptation is fun. The drawings are charming and the author did a good job of meshing a few volumes of the original series into this first volume.

The writing was so simplistic that I would have believed this were a children's novel if it had been marketed that way. The events of the story were solved without much of the drama that I'd expect from real life. I was happy for awhile that it wasn't being ruined with an implausible love story, but then in the last chapter or so it got snuck in. It was ludicrous and made the whole thing end on kind of a downer.

Both funny and at times making me despair of the human race. :)

I liked the story, but some of the stanzas felt forced and did not flow together as well as some of his other works. The ending was quite abrupt as well, as though it were missing a page or two. The afterword was a nice insight into Dr. Seuss as a person.