And the tree was happy...

I'm so glad someone else feels the same way I do about The Giving Tree. Mwahahahaha!

There were two books that bothered me as a kid--The Cat in the Hat and this. (The Cat in the Hat I didn't like because, like a horde of drunken high school students, he messed up a home that wasn't his. Asshat.) In The Giving Tree, the tree gets the short end of the stick. (Hehehe.) This kid takes and takes and takes, and apparently "the tree was happy?" Yeah, so are people in abusive relationships. Sure, the kid really loves you. Get out of that relationship, tree, before it's too late!

Oh wait.

(Thanks to bookshelves of doom for this amazing video.)