A fabulous author and a genuinely lovely man. My particular favourites of his include Matilda, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and James and the Giant Peach. For me, he's the bee's knees of British literature. Thanks Roald for so much pleasure ❤ 😊
Awesome, I've listened to this about 40 or 50 times but it's great to listen to it again I'm quite relieved in some ways that Roald isn't here to see the destruction that's been done to literature. Politically He'd probably voted for Nigel Farage, Brexit & supported Trump despite being very pro-vaccine, LGBT & his wife & mother both being literal immigrants But more than anything else he was a genius writer & could put the writers who publish their work today to absoulute shame Which is partly why they tried to destroy his books & failed
Funny to hear Mr.Dahl say that the original Hollywood adaption of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' was a "rather Crummy film" but is now and for many years been considered a Classic !
hah I had this playing in the background while working, just as noise really since I had listened to the original several years ago, and just love Roald Dahl too much to let go of him :) But when the BFG track started playing I had to come back here because I was pretty sure it was by John Williams's 2016 score! Nicely done :)
I totally agree. As a writer myself I think it is horrific that they keep meddling with his books. He wrote it one way and they should just leave it as it was. Nobody is trying to rewrite Austen or Dickens. I read recently they removed all references to height, weight, gender because it this politically correct world you can't write in a book the word "fat" etc
Start with Boy and then the sequel to it, Going Solo. Both of these are his autobiographies but written with his wonderful signature Dahl sense of humour. But what hooked me was Matilda. I love him. I read his books and PG Wodehouse when I need a good escape from the world around me.
A fabulous author and a genuinely lovely man. My particular favourites of his include Matilda, The BFG, Fantastic Mr Fox, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits and James and the Giant Peach. For me, he's the bee's knees of British literature. Thanks Roald for so much pleasure ❤ 😊
Awesome, I've listened to this about 40 or 50 times but it's great to listen to it again
I'm quite relieved in some ways that Roald isn't here to see the destruction that's been done to literature. Politically He'd probably voted for Nigel Farage, Brexit & supported Trump despite being very pro-vaccine, LGBT & his wife & mother both being literal immigrants
But more than anything else he was a genius writer & could put the writers who publish their work today to absoulute shame
Which is partly why they tried to destroy his books & failed
Thank you for sharing this.
Funny to hear Mr.Dahl say that the original Hollywood adaption of 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' was a "rather Crummy film" but is now and for many years been considered a Classic !
He's quite right. I was so disappointed when I saw it after having read the book as a kid.
The book is great. I haven't watched the movie because I hate the look of it. I've just finished reading his biography and he did hate the movie.
hah I had this playing in the background while working, just as noise really since I had listened to the original several years ago, and just love Roald Dahl too much to let go of him :) But when the BFG track started playing I had to come back here because I was pretty sure it was by John Williams's 2016 score! Nicely done :)
I’m glad I have the original books, without the horrible adaptations.
I totally agree. As a writer myself I think it is horrific that they keep meddling with his books. He wrote it one way and they should just leave it as it was. Nobody is trying to rewrite Austen or Dickens. I read recently they removed all references to height, weight, gender because it this politically correct world you can't write in a book the word "fat" etc
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I haven't read any Dahl.
Where should I start?
Start with Boy and then the sequel to it, Going Solo. Both of these are his autobiographies but written with his wonderful signature Dahl sense of humour. But what hooked me was Matilda. I love him. I read his books and PG Wodehouse when I need a good escape from the world around me.
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Thanks
I'll look it for them.
I agree with the last gentleman
Going Solo and Boy
My Uncle Oswald and any collection of short(adult) stories Kiss Kiss etc
Fantastic Mr Fox was my first Dahl at 9 years old, just wonderful.