Sinister: Roald Dahl [non-B&S]

[Buick1967]

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. 
  >>
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
the imagination to elevate the 'weird' to 'art' as he does.
~harry manning
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