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vafizziks

Since I Ranted About It...

Mar 11, 2006 19:10

Below you will find the complete text of Ian Fleming's Story of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! The Magical Car which has been adapted for Beginning Readers. As I've said before, this is actually a book I had when I was little. The copyright is 1968. I've typed it exactly as it appears on each page. Breaks between lines signify a new page. Oh, and any ( Read more... )

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vafizziks March 11 2006, 18:50:13 UTC

In fairness to Ian, it is an adaptation by someone named Al Perkins. On the other hand, it's not as if Al made it up.

I've never read any Bond novels. And am now wondering how bad those are.

aberforths_rug March 11 2006, 17:58:43 UTC

Wow.

It would be interesting to see the process this went through to become a movie. There is really very little that remains from the book. And it would appear that this is a good thing.

Yicks.

vafizziks March 11 2006, 18:50:46 UTC

All I remember about the movie is Dick Van Dyke was in it and people sang.

And this book is awful, isn't it?

aberforths_rug March 11 2006, 19:59:46 UTC

Well, honestly it does not seem worse than a lot of kids books -- but yes, it is awful. Fortunately there is also a lot of good kids books out there!

In the movie there is no Mrs. The father is as sort of crazy inventor type. There is a crazy grandfather that thinks he is going off on safari when he goes to the outhouse. It is very crazy and trippy. Oh it it has a scary evil Childcatcher guy and a crazy baroness and baron that I now see as having a mildly bdsm kinda thing going on.

It is also REALLY long and not for everyone to be sure. The female lead sorta sucked -- I do not even remember her name. But the father (Dick VanDyke) and the Grandfather both make me smile.

lilyvalley73 March 11 2006, 19:56:52 UTC

Yes, let's run into the dark and spooky cave completely unsupervised!

OMG! You're such a mom! :-)

Wow...I had no idea Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was such a violent story. Scary caves, skeletons, gun powder plots, a hail of bullets, crazed Christine-equse cars. *shivers* Great, now I'm going to have nightmares!

lilyvalley73 March 11 2006, 19:57:33 UTC

That's supposed to be...Christine-esque

*sigh* I need to get some sleep. :-)

vafizziks March 12 2006, 07:01:09 UTC

The car is a little Christine-esque. And I don't think the line about running into the dark cave is because I'm a Mom. There's a freaking skeleton hanging in it for pete's sake!

lilyvalley73 March 12 2006, 09:12:59 UTC

There's a freaking skeleton hanging in it for pete's sake!

Aw, c'mon...where's your sense of adventure? ;-)

tamlane March 11 2006, 20:05:28 UTC

*dies laughing*

Oh, Kate. Ohhhh god, your commentary. XD

This story is WHACK, yo. But at least now we all know where JKR got the grand idea for "The Cave." ;)

vafizziks March 12 2006, 07:02:01 UTC

Oh, I can see it now. The estate of Ian Fleming sues JKR for use of the cave without proper acknowledgement!

And it is WHACK. But LV is obsessed with it. He says, "Chitty Ban Ban."

dixi19 March 12 2006, 09:48:54 UTC

I think you can make a career out of this...it would be fun. You had me cackling in a most unattractive manner. I know I read this book as a kid, but wow...I had NO idea it was that bad. It's like Bad Parenting 101.

Maybe kids like it because of the title? It is kind of fun to say "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."

I'm with Lils, I wonder if Stephen King got the idea for Christine from this? He's strange enough for that.

Random: Did you know that SK got the idea of "Carrie" when he was working as a janitor at a girls high school? He was cleaning the girls locker room with another janitor and saw the pad/tampon dispenser, had no idea what it was, and asked the other janitor what it was. When the guy told him, the first thing that popped into SK's mind was that scene where Carrie gets her period and all the girls start throwing tampons and pads at her. Strange huh?