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lol drama. Thread derailed.
But anyway, I genuinely liked it as a kid, so if you continue to say that you'll be lying. Most of your complaints seem without substance ('it isn't technically a fairytale', 'protagonist is just a little girl because the author was a paedophile', etc.); the rest are no more than opinion. I suppose I may as well try to address them, though:
-While anger and offense exist and have a place in the book, they don't constitute the majority of the story. It certainly isn't a scathing satire on reality written by a bitter old paedo, as you make it out.
-Who cares why the author chose to make the protagonist a young female? It certainly doesn't change the story at all.
-Who cares if by some arbitrary pedantic standard it isn't a fairytale? I never said it was. I doubt Brainboy and the Deathmaster is technically a fairytale either.
-I didn't find the prose to be low quality or "horendously boring" in the least. On the contrary, I felt it danced between franticness, comedy, and contemplation quite artfully. Moreover, most children do not seem so terribly critical of prose (though I'll concede they can be critical in other things), and would probably be content with even the thinnest prose to connect their imaginations, the illustrations, and the story.
And what satire is lost on children if they are too young might seep into their mind later. Frequently, growing up, I remember thinking back to scenes or characters in Alice in Wonderland.