Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is, I'm sad to say, bound up in long histories of racism.īut my childhood copies of their books still occupy my shelves, some missing covers and pages, and I bought new copies for my kids and tried - with mixed success - to share my love of those stories with them. Lewis' religious views and his treatment of his character Susan, who he wrote as choosing sex and lipstick over Narnia, has always irked me ( and many others). There are cases where it's complicated to ascribe modern values to figures from the past and as a reader, my feelings, my emotions, are just not going to be consistent. Seeing his work still celebrated fills me with sadness, leaving me caught between attachment to something that mattered to me as a boy and commitment to the principles that, I hope, make me the man I am today.īecause I know that Roald Dahl hated Jewish people like me.
In fact, although surely my children have read some of his books in school and seen some of the films, at no time have I suggested that they read Dahl. I'm not interested in what Netflix has planned, nor was I in any of the Dahl films that have come out in the last decades. Given that personal history, the announcement that Netflix has acquired Dahl's entire catalog and plans a robust lineup of multimedia adaptations ought to feel like good news.Įxcept I have no plans to recommend them to my kids.
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