When I was in primary school, high school or while I was still learning English in Indonesia as an eleven year old, my English teacher made us read the first chapter of a book that perhaps put me off reading for years until I got to high school, and the book was A Wrinkle in Time.
I remembered at that time that the little kid with his special word of the day (How many annoying ways can you use the word “exclusive”?) really annoyed the shit out of me and I wanted to kick the asshat on the teeth. And reading it decades later, the feeling is intact.
Mysterious visitors came into a the Murry’s household one night, taking them into other planets to find their estranged father who has been missing for five years. I actually couldn’t go on with the story cos I really don’t give a shit. They ended up in a world ruled by an evil spirit, and everybody in the world has the intelligence of a zombie.
I am glad that I can tick this off the book list because it has been nagging me for a while, but I really wanted to enjoy this book, I really do. But the writing is terrible and the characters are written even more horribly. There is a lot of flak in this book that is just plain unnecessary, such as the budding romance between the Meg and Calvin. The three witches, bitches or what you wanna call them are annoying beyond comprehension. Actually everybody in this book are annoying as fuck.
Like any other books for children and young adults, it’s full of tropes like the cheap and obligatory romance, annoying siblings and daddy issues. You’d be doing your kids a disservice if you let them read this reeking vomit of a book.
