I'm two books away from finishing his entire fiction collection, so I'm going to read the sequel next and hope it's better. No, he absolutely rants about how only the worst kind of parent would even own one. He doesn't suggest that kids should watch less. I always wondered what Dahl's beef was with chewing gum, and why he considered it a character flaw on par with extreme gluttony or bossy, greedy entitlement, but apparently that's nothing compared what he thought of television. In the book, the Oompa Loompas go on and on and on and on. Believe it or not, they actually toned that element way down in the movies. It's boring (less boring than Danny the Champion of the World, maybe, but definitely more so than the other 8 I read), and worse, it's super preachy. Don't think you'll automatically love it because you love one of the movies. Unless you're planning on reading all of them, skip this one. It's a Roald Dahl book, so it's not terrible, but it's far from his best.
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