butterfly
03-15-02, 05:13 PM
Um alright, so anyone who remembers Roald Dahl from their childhood in books like the "BFG" or "James and the Giant Peach" is in for a shock if you read this book. It's a collection of short stories, but it's definitely NOT for kids. To be blunt, they are downright bizarre. A few of them are actually pretty clever and witty but a lot of them are also quite err....graphic shall we say? Maybe even vulgar. To be honest, a couple of them made me nauseous....especially the one about the rat-trapper, I won't tell you why. The ones at the beginning weren't too bad, I actually liked some of them, the first one called "Taste" was really good, one of those stories with a twist and an ending that makes you laugh out loud. But as the book progressed the stories just got weirder and weirder until, well I had to put it down. So yah, unless you have a really strong stomach and a zen for the extremely bizarre and obscure (and when I say bizarre, I mean REALLY bizarre!) DON'T read this book and no matter what, don't read it to your kids. If you're still curious to read what Dahl has to write for adults, then read the first 3-5 stories and then put it down.