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Title: Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life: The Country Stories of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl, John Lawrence ISBN: 0-14-011847-0 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: ah, sweet book!
Comment: This is a great book. If you loved Roald Dahl's "marvelous" and "delightful" way of telling stories, this is a must read. The stories in here are more grownup but if you still have an itching for Roald-Dahl-ite irony, then these stories are good. The irony that was present in "The BFG" or "Fantastic Mr. Fox" or "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" is still here, but it's mixed with sickening and grotesque stories about ratcatching, maggot breeding, and poaching.
If you like this book, I highly recommend buying "The Best of Roald Dahl" because it has, besides the entire book "Ah Sweet Mystery...," 24 extra short stories including "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar," "Lamb to the Slaughter" (one of his more famous pieces which was also made into an Alfred Hitchcock episode), and "The Bookseller" which first appeared in Playboy magazine.
Rating: 4
Summary: A bridge between his stories for children and adults
Comment: Preface: I love almost everything by Dahl.
This collection is a nice bridge between his stories for children, and his stories for adults. For example, in his story "The Ratcatcher", Dahl's use of language and detail is more similar to his children's stories. However, the story is more grown-up, and told at a pace more similar to the stories in, say, _Switch, Bitch_.
It is an enjoyable collection. More consistently strong than his _Tales of the Unexpected_, some of which are quite weak.
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Title: Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl ISBN: 0679729895 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl ISBN: 0140055770 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Umbrella Man and Other Stories by Roald Dahl ISBN: 0141302712 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Skin and Other Stories by Roald Dahl ISBN: 0141310340 Publisher: Puffin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Best of Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl ISBN: 0679729917 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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