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Completely Unexpected Tales: Tales of the Unexpected / More Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl


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Completely Unexpected Tales: Tales of the Unexpected / More Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl

 
Description: ISBN 0140098208 / Author: Roald Dahl / Genre: Fiction / Roald Dahl is, or should be, well known for his superb and highly imaginative ... more
Completely Unexpected Tales: Tales of the Unexpected / More Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl ... stories for children, but he also had a remarkable and very different talent for adult literature. He always displays an acid, witty and even macabre sense of humour, insisting on human miseries: greed, deceit and revenge are mixed up from apparently innocent attitudes to obtain surprising and sometimes exhilarating results. If you read all the tales in a row, as I did, you may be a little exhausted at the end, but you can always switch to something else and come back later. There is real good material in here, like Parson's pleasure, William and Mary, The hitchhiker, Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's coat or Genesis and catastrophe.

Newest Review: ... I like most of all is the surreality of the stories; they are about ordinary people who appear to live normal lives but there ... more

 ... is always something bubbling under the surface. They are so bizarre and throw the mind back to a state of defamiliarisation where we don't know where we are. I tended to forget that I was reading fiction because the characters are so well delineated without falling into stereotypes. That is the beauty and uniqueness of Dahl's wrtitng; we learn the complexity of the mind and the multifacetted nature of people. There are so many different sides to the individual that it becomes difficult to explain certain a...more

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Premium Review Completely Unexpected Tales: Tales of the Unexpected / More Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl: The Darker Side of Storytelling. (281 words)
by - written on 29/09/02 (Useful, 125 readings)
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I discovered "Tales of The Unexpected" after watching the repeated episodes on Cable television. I then purchased the books and have been hooked ever since. I have to admit that I am unmoved by most other fiction and so the fact that these short stories by Roald Dahl have been able to captivate my attention for so long is extraordinary. The thing I like most of all is the surreality of the stories; they are about ordinary people who appear to live normal lives but there is always something bubbling under the surface. They are so bizarre and throw the mind back to a state of defamiliarisation where we don't know where we are. I tended to forget that ...  Read the complete review

emmaball
Premium Review A Creative Genius (341 words)
by - written on 27/03/02 (Useful, 129 readings)
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In my youth I vividly recall being petrified by the television programme Tales of the Unexpected. Even the theme music was enough to send me flying from the room in tears. The few I did manage watch gave me nightmares and I avoided it from then on. For the record I have recently watched some of the re-runs on Sky and for obvious reasons wondered what I made all of that fuss about. A child's imagination is a wonderful thing (sometimes). I was bought a book of these stories entitled "The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl" by my boyfirend who had picked it up from a book fair. I belive that the stories were originally published as a number of ...  Read the complete review

jillmurphy
Premium Review Completely Unexpected Tales: Tales of the Unexpected / More Tales of the Unexpected - Roald Dahl: Kiss Kiss and a Devilish Twist (484 words)
by - written on 04/09/00 (Very useful, 189 readings)
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You must remember that old TV programme ‘Tales Of The Unexpected, (well, if you’re as old as I am anyway). I certainly do. My mother and father, grandmother and grandfather, aunt and uncle had a habit of taking a night away from us children and heading off to the pub, leaving four nine and ten year olds in the charge of our older cousin. We got a Mars Bar or two, a king-size packet of Marks and Spencer’s crisps, several large bottles of coke and stern warnings to ‘be good for Stephen’. What did we do with that relative freedom? We watched television that’s what. As I remember the schedule went ‘That’s ...  Read the complete review

 

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