Wild Things
Everyone is excited for the Where The Wild Things Are movie, and it will be interesting no doubt, but the original books popularity is built on a mountain of slave labor. There is nothing intrinsically special, unique or even good about the text of the book. It’s only 9 sentences for Christ sake – how good can 9 sentences be even when at the most scholarly and brilliant? The books popularity comes 100% from the illustrations. We all liked the book for the same reason we liked Dr Seuss: the ILLUSTRATIONS. Every Charlie Brown cartoon was nothing special either. We love the Peanuts specials for the music and we love Wild Things for the pictures. lets be honest.
UPDATE: completely vindicated. Adam Carolla proves my point by going through this shitfest line by line…