Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl - review
'Roald Dahl is a man whose stories were crafted with pure
genius and that special touch of zaniness that very few are blessed to have'
pinkbookworm
Mon 7 Oct 2013 09.00 BST First published on Mon 7 Oct 2013
09.00 BST
A born storyteller is always born with an interesting story.
A phenomenally successful author all over the globe, Roald Dahl is a man whose
stories were crafted with pure genius and that special touch of zaniness that
very few are blessed to have.
Boy is the first part of an autobiographical series written
by Roald Dahl himself and it tells the tale of the beginnings of one of the
greatest children's writers the world has seen.
Boy narrates the story of Dahl's childhood. Starting from
the unfortunate incident of how his Norwegian Papa, Harold Dahl lost his arm
and moving on to a hilarious account of how much he hated his first boarding
school Llandalf Cathedral.
Personally, my favorite chapter involves the incident with
the dead mice and a sweet shop and each chapter goes on to describe how Dahl
grew up in a world of tuck boxes, strict headmasters and of course lots of
sisters and brothers. This including a rather annoying brother in law as well.
The book also has those few extra treats tucked inbetween
the pages, like how Dahl's childhood affair with Cadbury's inspired him to
write Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Quentin Blake's black and white
illustrations peppered here and there.
Roald Dahl is one of those people who can turn something as
boring as mice into something scandalous and eerily fabulous. Almost every
chapter written in Boy describes a fairly ordinary event in a young boy's life
made extraordinary with that little bit of Dahl magic.
The author and the book speak for themselves. It isn't
sophisticated or classy, but it's a Dahl autobiography, which makes anyone who
turns their nose up at it a right twit.
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