Completely Unexpected Tales: "Tales of the Unexpected" and "More Tales of the Unexpected" |
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Roald Dahl
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Pages: 416 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0140098208
Pub: Penguin Books Ltd
Pub date: 1986-09-11
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 10651
Reader Reviews:
Roald Dahl at his best (2/2 people found this helpful)
I have been an admirer of Roald Dahl since I was a child, indulging in all his classics (Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The Witches, Matilda and so many more) and possibly the thing that attracted me to his books were his imagination, his stories which even without the label of "Unexpected" took us to unexpected places and stunned us. My copy of this book is worn and bent from reading and re-reading the amazing stories. His stories are dark and intriguing, captivating and magical, and his imagination and creativity and ability to stun are present as always. It is a book you cannot read in one go, but you can not drop it once you've started either! "Lamb to the slaughter", "The landlady", "Mrs. Bixby and the colonel's coat", "Man from the south"...all amazing. You will not regret it! :)
Excellent (20/21 people found this helpful)
Roald Dahl is, or should be, well known for his superb and highly imaginative stories for children, but he also had a remarkable and very different talent for adult literature. He always displays an acid, witty and even macabre sense of humour, insisting on human miseries: greed, deceit and revenge are mixed up from apparently innocent attitudes to obtain surprising and sometimes exhilarating results. If you read all the tales in a row, as I did, you may be a little exhausted at the end, but you can always switch to something else and come back later. There is real good material in here, like "Parson's pleasure", "William and Mary", "The hitchhiker", "Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's coat" or "Genesis and catastrophe". Very recommended!
My No.1 Book. (10/34 people found this helpful)
I could not have written it better myself. Dahl at his best. Just as the title says, unexpected tales. You can`t go wrong with Dahl.
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