Childhood guilty pleasure
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I love Roald Dahl. I always felt guilty reading this book because George essentially tortures and kills his grandmother, and I have two very nice grandmothers. But in all fairness, George's granny is a bitch.
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Reading these stories again brought back lots of pleasant childhood memories.
And whats more they are free. Well worth downloading and enjoying.
4290576
One of my favorites from my childhood! So happy it's on Amazon.
930471
Here are another good couple of movies from my childhood. I hadn't even thought about them for a while, until I saw news article online that a third one is in the works "Three Men and a Bride". When I read that article, it brought back all the fun memories of these movies, and how much I liked them. I haven't seen them probably in over 10 years. I will be happy to watch them again with my family now, and relive a piece of my younger days. I am a child of the 80's, and its alway fun for me to see some those good movies that came out of that decade, especially the funny ones. For wife who is a child of the 90's, this will be her first time ever seeing them. Most of my favorite movies, she has never seen or even heard of, so they are fun to share with her. My sons will not have a clue, but maybe someday when they are old enough, they will watch some of their dad's old movies with me. My oldest (2), already likes the cartoons from those days, so maybe when he is a little older, he might like the movies too.
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A dark look at the greed of children and a turn for the underdog, Willy Wonka was THE movie of my childhood years. It's got it all - the single mom, forced to care for her son and her aging, bed-ridden parents; the child who dreams of the impossible exit from poverty; the obnoxious brats who are one-by-one undone by virtue of their fatal character flaws; the triumphant rise of good over bad. While starting out a dreary film of life in the projects, the movie magically comes to live in full technicolor when we enter the magical land of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. This film deals with so many fantasies of young children (neverending supply of candy, good fortune, winning it all by "being good" etc) that it's almost too over-the-top. But either way, a great film and one that kids today still enjoy. Downside - No widescreen format for the hardcore movie purist.
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As good as I remember from my own childhood...My 4 yr old granddaughter enjoyed it as well.
569872
Awesome part of my childhood is back. Tastes like it used to.
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I wanted my kids to experience this piece of my childhood, and they had a good time using these.
4842005
I grew up watching these shows as reruns on Nickelodeon. I absolutely loved them. Now that they have finally been made available on DVD I'm recalling all of my wonderful childhood memories. This series was not only funny but represents a simpler, innocent time when kids were respectful and safe. Sadly, it is now a bygone era. Today's children would refuse to watch these shows and would most likely call them boring. That may explain why they are not shown as reruns anymore. I, and others my age and up, are delighted to have them on DVD and I can't wait for the release of season 2.
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I'm not sure if you need a childhood enriched with Scooby-Doo to truly enjoy this book or not, but as someone who grew up watching Scooby-Doo, this book was just fun---an adult-worthy satisfying dose of childhood nostalgia, but of course, much darker. I was worried that the author would literally just change the names and not really create something new, and though he is clearly inspired by Mystery Inc., he's made his own interesting, well developed characters. There are plenty of satisfying nods to Mystery Inc. also, which were fun to notice while reading. There are several plot twists, which kept me on my toes, but I still ended up figuring out the villain long before the characters. However, overall, the book is a nice mixture of nostalgia, dark humor, and horror. I'm glad that I read it.
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I was so glad to find this collection so I can enjoy these books again, that I loved as a kid.
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As other reviews of books in the Showcase Presents series have noted, this is DC's version of the Marvel Essentials series-- B&W reproductions of comics published decades ago. The comics in this particular edition were originally published between June '58 and Nov '59, when I was eight and nine years old and a voracious comics reader. Even now, I can actually remember reading some of the particular comics that are in this book, and while, to an adult, the stories here are simplistic and even sometimes silly, it was, for nostalgia purposes alone, a real delight to get to re-read them again for the inexpensive price of ten dollars. In fact I sort of feel sorry for children growing up now, who have to make do with comics that are kind of grim and sordid, in contrast to the clearly drawn, cheerful and good-hearted ones that existed back in the fifties and sixties.
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I loved Beetlejuice growing up and nostalgia has hit hard. I actually purchased this book when it first came out. I really enjoyed it as a kid, and I still find it amusing now that I'm an adult. It's a short book with pictures, following the cartoon version or Cartoonverse of Beetlejuice. Some of the characters were a bit wierd, considering if you're a diehard fan, you may wonder who some of them are. But, in general, it was a fun book when I was a kid.
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As a teenager in the 80s, I remember making jewelry from pop beads (and my mom, a child of the 50s remembered the originals), so I was tickled to see these. The ones of my youth were mostly just plain round ones. These ones are both much more fun and better suited to littles. They're larger overall than those I remember (which were somewhere between a pea and a marble), and they have a wide variety of shapes and textures. Some have multiple junction options.

These have the typical color range of all B. Toys, dark purple, bright and golden orange, turquoise, magenta, olive and spring green , plus a bit of black, red, and cream.

Besides the beads, there are pendants and bracelet and ring bases for even more fun!

Should be great fun for littles of both sexes, up to preteen girls.
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I remember watching the Raggedy Ann and Andy cartoons as a little girl... then I'd try to sneak in to see if my dolls were alive, too. (LOL) Watching them as an adult brings back good memories, memories I hope to share one day with my future grandchildren (since my kids are adults now).
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This is a guilty pleasure. I love this book as as love the 80s. If you ever wonder what it meant to be a yuppie this is the book to look back and understand. Both funny and true- an enjoyable easy read.
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watching this DvD brought back childhood memory's of sitting in front of the TV set with my bowl of cheerios. the over all video and sound quality is good and each episode is complete and uncut with the lead-in theme music
for each episode. like all things from childhood a little of this material goes a long way.