Switch
Bitch
Roald
Dahl
I’m
fairly sure that i first read this while at Loretto ~ either there or
at UHill ~ which is a bit surprising as one doesn’t think of a
school for adolescents (which category
both places fit) as the ideal location for a book essentially about
the passion and inevitability of sex. It is without doubt, however,
that i have read this Dahl previously, and have gained just as much
pleasure from it this time through. He is the master, in his short
stories, of odd switches, changing point of view or behaviour so that
his readers’ expectations are confounded; and what a joy that
confoundment is!
Someone
Like You
Roald
Dahl
Found
two Dahl books at the library, obviously, took them out! Takes me
back to Loretto, sitting in the window in the newspaper area in the
library, reading a subversive
book ~ for there is no doubt that, to a sixteen year old, at least
such a one as i, that Dahl is purposely subverting the proper view of
life. And very enjoyably he does it, too. This particular book, i
remember, i found flawed in that i did not enjoy the last story (or
four stories, depending on how you view them) as much as the rest; on
revisiting, i agree with my younger self, to the degree that i think
they are of a slightly different quality and style, not quite in
fitting with the rest of the book, and they might have been better
placed elsewhere; i disagree with that self, however, that they are
flawed or lacking, judgements which i now think i made then as a
beginning reader, not yet fully able nor willing to accept variation
as a quality. I trust i have now grown up a bit, and am slightly
better able to read and judge.
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