The Twits

By Roald Dahl

Bored with playing school kiddish tricks on one another, the grotesque, satisfyingly revolting couple Mr and Mrs Twit turn their attentions to capturing and training a family of monkeys, the Muggle-Wumps, for a circus act. The monkey's cruel incarceration in a cage is avenged when the birds trick the Twits into believing the world has turned upside-down. The Twits join in, aided by the birds who drop glue on their hair, and the audience is encouraged to play their part in freeing the monkeys.

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Published Dec 18, 2000

112 pages

Average rating: 7.4

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Shahna
6/10 stars
Why didn't they cut the legs off the bids before they made bird pie?

I like this quote:
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 it gets so ugly 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 they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.


I want to play with the monkeys. They look pretty cute.
E Clou
6/10 stars
The beginning reminded me a bit of the War of the Roses movie with Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Man against himself if you will. Second half is a good illustration of man against nature. In both cases, as in real life, man is necessarily the loser.