Roald Dahl is a fantastic writer and despite the sometimes macabre, frequently shocking, but always entertaining nature of his stories, he is not as misanthropic as many would have us believe. I recommend "Switch Bitch" and "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life : The Country Stories of Roald Dahl" highly. Okay, he is quite the purveyer of the perverse (see: "My Uncle Oswald" about a post- Victorian self-styled sperm broker intent on preserving the ....um.... specimens of all the great minds of his day.) but there are few writers with
In a message dated 98-03-01 18:06:57 EST, you write: << Lizzie mentioned Road Dahll well, may i just point out that this guy is NOT As INNOCNET AS WE ALL BELIEVE! in the Oxfam shop in Preston, theres 2 copies of a book called 'Switch Bitch' by ROAD DAHL! and you can guess as to their content can't you!!! Oxfam too....dearie me...then again i didbuy a TOM JONES! boigrapghy there. the imagination to elevate the 'weird' to 'art' as he does. ~harry manning ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------