Burn it. Burn it all to the ground.

I hated that fucking book from the start, and would actually get LECTURED by adult women about how it was a book about caring and selflessness and I really should think about the meaning more.

I LOVE Shel Silverstein. Like, even at 30 years old, I can still recite tons of his poems. But I HATE The goddamn Giving Tree.

This. That tree needed Al-Anon.

The first time I listened to the story was in about 7th grade. Catholic school, the teacher was tying it in with God's ever-giving nature, etc. All of my classmates were so excited because it was something they remembered from their childhood.

Yes! Even as a kid I would read that book and feel so bad for the tree while wondering why the kid was such a ungrateful jerk.

I HATE THE GIVING TREE SO MUCH. I'm so glad there are other people who share my loathing for it.

That child was a wretched spoiled brat and that book is undoubtedly used to train "urban renewal" assholes to this day.

Oh, god, part of my job is to read to children and I HATE the stupid Giving Tree. It is a lesson in narcissism and selfishness. THE POOR TREE, and that complete ass who NEVER says thank you or seems to regard the trees sacrifices in the least. But the worse book I have ever read was giving to me as a child. It was…

I loved it as a kid, but the first time I read to to my own kids, I realized that the boy is a total asshole.

The Giving Tree is the single most persuasive argument against parenthood since Rosemary's Baby.

Like Holmes, I hate The Giving Tree. Also hate The Cat in the Hat because I used to get really stressed at the idea of a stranger entering the kids' home and messing it up, and Where the Wild Things Are because I thought Max was a total asshole who didn't deserve the Wild Things.

That's what I thought it was! Only because it sounded exactly like John Travolta in Hairspray, which is how I made my deduction.

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You sound great at parties.

The bearded lady Ethel Darling, played by Kathy Bates, and her accent. Where is this affectation supposed to have originated? Help me understand.

He shouldn't be welcomed with open arms back into the fashion industry = he should die?

One of the kooky things we Jewish people are taught, something we are encouraged to embrace and implement in our lives, is that transgressions always have the potential to be forgiven. We ask God to forgive us when we screw up and we pledge to forgive others. (I know this is not unique.) So.....I dunno. I still…

I find it terribly sad that everyone doesn't get what raven was saying with her comments about being called an African American.