I also have opinions on how to do nonsense, but there was also a long stretch of my youth in which I had very little willingness to make allowances for things like "genre" and "what a book is trying to be" and "what age is the intended audience" and so forth. (You will be shocked, no doubt, to hear that kid me was both strongly opinionated and extremely pedantic. It also took me quite a while to reconcile myself to the idea of film adaptations making any changes from the book, even for reasons of blatantly obvious logistics.) So I really should give The Phantom Tollbooth another try, to see if it was a victim of that in-between-age gap.
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I also have opinions on how to do nonsense, but there was also a long stretch of my youth in which I had very little willingness to make allowances for things like "genre" and "what a book is trying to be" and "what age is the intended audience" and so forth. (You will be shocked, no doubt, to hear that kid me was both strongly opinionated and extremely pedantic. It also took me quite a while to reconcile myself to the idea of film adaptations making any changes from the book, even for reasons of blatantly obvious logistics.) So I really should give The Phantom Tollbooth another try, to see if it was a victim of that in-between-age gap.