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George's Marvelous Medicine - Community Reviews back

by Quentin Blake, Roald Dahl
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The Cheap Reader
The Cheap Reader rated it 13 years ago
It’s a very typical Dahl book. You’ve got the grouchy, mean adult and the kid who’s sick of it. This time the kid literally gives the adult a taste their own medicine. While I enjoyed it, it didn’t have that little bit of extra magic to make me love it and want to read it again.Reading this as an ad...
Marcia
Marcia rated it 13 years ago
This was a tough book to finish
Death by Book Avalanche
Death by Book Avalanche rated it 13 years ago
Another favourite as a child.
The Drift Of Things
The Drift Of Things rated it 14 years ago
The funniest thing about this book is the dedication page. "This book is for doctors everywhere." Ha! Roald Dahl was such a cheeky devil. George is stuck at home alone with his mean, scary, and very demanding grandma. He's supposed to give her medicine at eleven o'clock. Instead of giving her the ...
Emily May (The Book Geek)
Emily May (The Book Geek) rated it 14 years ago
A book that started scary and became increasingly unbelievable and stupid. I had to give it two stars instead of just one for the tension and suspense that Stine created expertly in the first half of the book. But I was waiting for him to take it to a very scary and clever climax and that just didn'...
Flying Kick-a-pow!
Flying Kick-a-pow! rated it 17 years ago
I read this book in third grade thinking it would be as good as other Roald Dahl books such as Matilda and The BFG, but what I got was a strange and pointless book that made absolutely no sense to me. To sum it up, it's basically about a kid who makes this "medicine" for him mean grandma and makes h...
The Block
The Block rated it 18 years ago
I always loved all of Roald Dahl's books. This wasn't one of my favourites, but still it's Roald Dahl, can you go wrong?
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