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3 Responses to “ Top Ten Childhood Monsters, #3 ”

1. Oliver Townshend
   October 29th, 2005 at 7:08 pm
   

   Loved the book as a child. Don’t remember being scared by max though. Daleks are #1 scary in my book.

   Last year, having travelled to LA for the first time, I caught a taxi all the way from Culver City to Sunset Boulevard where there’s a big shop (Meltdown?). I discovered that LA comic shops have the same range of stuff as the shops in Sydney. Vaugely disappointed, I wandered the shop trying to find something new, and noticed on the wall a “Where the Wild Things Are” T-Shirt, the last in stock (straight off the wall, but it fitted). My wife was most impressed.

2. Rose
   October 29th, 2005 at 7:35 pm
   

   I don’t know. The Wild Things say, “Oh, please don’t go! We’ll eat you up, we love you so!” That always seemed a little disturbing to me. Also disturbing is that I have a feeling I could still recite the full text of the book. Too many little brothers and babysitting jobs, and mischief of one kind and another have seared it into my brain.

3. Aine
   October 30th, 2005 at 9:08 am
   

   I agree actually. I found Max to be really scary. Something about the way the book illustrator had drawn his face…

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