2013/11/19 - 60minPublisher: SCHOLASTICpage 1- 577 words George, grandma, take care,plan, medicine, animal, changeDQDo you prefer taking medicine or spontaneous cure when you are sick?AI am not spontaneous cure person. When I feel headache, I take a medicine as soon as possible. However sometime...
Roald Dahl starts the story by telling about his family, both in England and in Norway. The story continues when he finally starts his school at the age of seven years old. He tells about the incident with Mrs. Prachett when Roald and some of his friends put a mouse in the candy jar. Later he te...
This book is composed of seven superb stories by the master himself, Mister Roald Dahl. I would like to review the seven stories briefly... The Boy Who Talked With Animals is a story about a boy who saved a captured giant turtle from being killed by fishermen and hotel tourists. This story took...
Sungguh buku yang liar! Kalau rajin baca Roald Dahl pasti sudah tidak asing dengan keliaran imajinasinya yang membuahkan, antara lain, Matilda dan Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tapi kali ini dia membawa imajinasinya ke dimensi lain yang jauh lebih dewasa, My Uncle Oswald.Pernahkah terpikir b...
Even though yes I am indeed an adult, I have a soft spot for YA Fiction or Teenage fiction as it is also known. I am currently reading Arthur Golden’s ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ and it is a little hard going at times. I decided take a trip to the local library and trawl through the teenage section in ...
I will rate each story on it's own merit and then come back and give an overall review on the book as a whole.I want to give this book 4 stars,but 3 seems more acurate. I wish this was done on a scale of 1-10 and this would likely be a 7 or 7. I love short stories, and this was a very fun and nic...
I don't think a lot of people realize this, but Roald Dahl was a crazy twisted motherfucker in the best way. Naturally, he's best known for his children's stories, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, but what you may not know is that he wrote some adult's stories...
Most people know Roald Dahl because of his wonderful stories for children. From Matilda to James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to the BFG, Dahl has enthralled generations of kids. But somehow most people have missed out on his short stories for adults. He published multip...
This is collection of some of Roald Dahl's short stories I bought several years ago while visiting a friend in Switzerland but never managed to complete. The back states:"ELEVEN DEVIOUS, SHOCKING STORIES FROM THE MASTER OF THE UNPREDICTABLEWhat could go wrong when a wife pawns the mink coat that ...
”The Great Automatic Grammatizator” (from “Someone Like You”): A mechanically-minded man reasons that the rules of grammar are fixed by certain, almost mathematical principles. By exploiting this idea, he is able to create a mammoth machine that can write a prize-winning novel in roughly fifteen ...
Много странно усещане ми остави тази книга. Вероятно човек просто трябва да е чел определени други автори, за да може да вникне и да я оцени напълно, навярно имам пропуски в четенето. Но е факт, че ми е трудно дори да кажа в какво точно се изразява това странно усещане. Поне за мен, това не е кни...
Having whet my appetite for Roald Dahl’s Adult novels with “Switch Bitch” I immediately found myself reaching out for the next one.I was going to exhausted the entire collection beginning with “My Uncle Oswald”; given that Oswald’s character in “Switch Bitch” was most unforgettable and prominent,...
Contains: ◦ Dip in the Pool ◦ Edward the Conqueror ◦ Galloping Foxley ◦ Genesis and Catastrophe ◦ Georgy Porgy ◦ Lamb to the Slaughter ◦ Man From the South ◦ Mr. Botibol ◦ Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat ◦ My Lady Love, My Dove ◦ Neck ◦ Nunc Dimittis ◦ Parson's Pleasure ◦ Poison ◦ Royal Jelly ...
The Snatch The Cave The BFG The Giants The Marvellous Ears Snozzcumbers The Bloodbottler Frobscottle and Whizzpoppers Journey to Dream Country Dream-Catching A Trogglehumper for the Fleshlumpeater Dreams The Great Plan Mixing the Dream Journey to London The Palace The Queen The Royal Breakfast Th...
‘Thank you so much,’ the Centipede said. ‘You are very kind.’ ‘You have a lot of boots,’ James murmured. ‘I have a lot of legs,’ the Centipede answered proudly. ‘And a lot of feet. One hundred, to be exact.’ ‘There he goes again!’ the Earthworm cried, speaking for the first time. ‘He simply canno...
I was making a fair income by writing two short stories a year. Each of them took four months to complete, and fortunately there were people both at home and abroad who were willing to buy them. One morning in April of that year, I read in the newspaper about a remarkable ...
It covered the hedges and whitened the grass in the fields so that it seemed almost as though it had been snowing. But the night was clear and beautiful and bright with stars, and the moon was nearly full. The cottage stood alone in a corner of the big field. There was a p...
But I took no long Sunday afternoon walks during my last term. My walks took me only as far as the garage in Wilmington where my lovely motorbike was hidden. There I would put on my disguise—my waders and helmet and goggles and wind jacket—and go sailing in a state of absolute bliss through the h...