Uncle Oswald is, if you remember, the greatest rogue, bounder, connoisseur, bon vivant and fornicator of all time. Here, many famous names are men...
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Aug 24, 2010
Uci
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Sungguh buku yang liar! Kalau rajin baca Roald Dahl pasti sudah tidak asing dengan keliaran imajinasinya yang membuahkan, antara lain, Matilda dan Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Tapi kali ini dia membawa imajinasinya ke dimensi lain yang jauh lebih dewasa, My Uncle Oswald.
Pernahkah terpikir bisa punya anak dari tokoh-tokoh hebat dunia seperti Monet, Picasso, Einstein, Puccini, Bernard Shaw atau dari raja-raja Eropa yang tak tersentuh? Tidak harus menikah dengan mereka tentu saja, More...
Pernahkah terpikir bisa punya anak dari tokoh-tokoh hebat dunia seperti Monet, Picasso, Einstein, Puccini, Bernard Shaw atau dari raja-raja Eropa yang tak tersentuh? Tidak harus menikah dengan mereka tentu saja, More...
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Dec 16, 2009
Caitlyn
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My grandmother has this friend, a woman I have known as my "auntie" since I was very young. The woman always told me sweet stories when I was a child, ones suitable for a child. Last year at Christmas she got a little bit tipsy on wine and began to tell sexual jokes- which, coming from an 80 year old woman, was a bit unsettling. And yet hilariously comfortable.
This book is sort of the parallel to that story- the Roald Dahl we knew as children writing a story entirely revolving ar More...
This book is sort of the parallel to that story- the Roald Dahl we knew as children writing a story entirely revolving ar More...
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Aug 06, 2011
Write a review...I have just re-read this highly entertaining book, having first read it almost 30 years ago, in defiance of my English master’s prohibition, on the ground that I was far too young for the subject matter!
In those years, the sheer audacity of the plot has not lost its ability to shock or amuse, in what is a tale set in the inter-War years, at far in advance of the technological advances that now make artificial insemination a routine procedure. Without giving too much of the plot More...
In those years, the sheer audacity of the plot has not lost its ability to shock or amuse, in what is a tale set in the inter-War years, at far in advance of the technological advances that now make artificial insemination a routine procedure. Without giving too much of the plot More...
Jan 03, 2009
Milly
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Hilarious! This is Dahl for adults. I think this is a gem that has yet to be discovered by the general public. Definitely worth your time. Here is the summary from Amazon:
1938 diary of Oswald Hendryks Cornelius - his memories at age 43 of his escapades some 25 years earlier.
English youth Oswald makes his first fortune at 17 by journeying to the Sudan, purchasing a chunk of the world's most potent aphrodisiac (ground-up Blister Beetles), and selling it in pill form to More...
1938 diary of Oswald Hendryks Cornelius - his memories at age 43 of his escapades some 25 years earlier.
English youth Oswald makes his first fortune at 17 by journeying to the Sudan, purchasing a chunk of the world's most potent aphrodisiac (ground-up Blister Beetles), and selling it in pill form to More...
Jul 24, 2010
Katie
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Jul 20, 2010
Kenyon
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Very funny at first, and then you realize it's very funny largely because this is a famous children's book author writing a book about a lecherous, greedy man who makes money by selling love potions and then by convincing the one woman he feels any connection with to extract semen (in the usual manner) from geniuses and royals, all with a view to selling the precious swimmers to rich, stupid women who want to have the children of the afore-mentioned gents. And then the episodes of semen-collect
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Feb 14, 2010
Hanne
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Het eerste audioboek dat ik ooit las/beluisterde. En wat voor één. Als kind was ik - zoals zovelen - zot van Roald Dahls boeken. Ik hield van zijn onwaarschijnlijk waarschijnlijke verhalen, die allemaal zo moeiteloos geschreven lijken te zijn. Zijn reuzen, zijn heksen, de vreselijke Bulstronk, de perzik en al die andere fantastische bedenksels waren zo écht.
Oom Oswald was ik al eens tegengekomen in Gelijk Oversteken, een verhalenbundel van Dahl die ik een paar maanden geleden las. Hilaris More...
Oom Oswald was ik al eens tegengekomen in Gelijk Oversteken, een verhalenbundel van Dahl die ik een paar maanden geleden las. Hilaris More...
Jul 17, 2009
TBML
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Roald Dahl had a gimlet eye for human foibles and he could write a story that peeled back all the layers of ridiculousness that cloak our society and get at the heart of the really, really stupid. His children's stories nailed it from a child's perspective and, people, his stories for adults were even more brilliant.
The narrator's Uncle Oswald had a fabulous idea to make a lot of money: Search out the most brilliant men of the day and use a beautiful woman to seduce them and steal t More...
The narrator's Uncle Oswald had a fabulous idea to make a lot of money: Search out the most brilliant men of the day and use a beautiful woman to seduce them and steal t More...
Oct 28, 2010
Pvw
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Uncle Oswald and his co-conspirators want to get rich by stealing and preserving the sperm of the living great people of the time, hoping to sell them after their demise for huge profits to women who want to have genius babies. In their quest they visit Monet, Picasso, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust and many others, even king Albert I of Belgium.
A classic and funny novel by Roald Dahl and something totally different than the children's stories he is most famous for. The amoral behaviou More...
A classic and funny novel by Roald Dahl and something totally different than the children's stories he is most famous for. The amoral behaviou More...
Oct 05, 2010
B
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You guys! Roald Dahl is dirty! Dirty dirty dirty! This is my first go at reading his adult stories and I must say, I did enjoy it. Excellent back stage reading. This translates into being easy enough to pick up and put down at odd intervals and read in the dark, but also having content that is compelling enough to keep you interested while your ears are hearing the same play for the 27th time being screamed just on the other side of the curtain. I wasn’t quite sure about how he treated his lady
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Jul 15, 2007
Miund
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When I first saw this book in a bookstore, I didn't think it's the same Roald Dahl who writes children books. When I finally read the book and confirmed that the writer is the same person who wrote Matilda, I was blown away (although rather creeped up). He's fantastic... and surprisingly erotic ;)
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Sep 29, 2010
Adam
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To fathom that this wickedly perverted tale came from the same mind that created James and the Giant Peach or the Big Friendly Giant is near impossible! Until, of course, one recognizes that the absurdity of all three stories levels the field as they differ really only with regards to subject matter. If one can weave an intricate fantasy about an enormous peach or dream catching giant, then why not use that same imagination to chronicle the life of entrepreneurial Lothario, Oswald Hendryks Cor
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Apr 09, 2008
Elizabeth
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This book continues the adventures of Uncle Oswald instroduced in Dahl's short story collections. I thought I would get tired of the a full length story about Uncle Oswald and the making of his fortune but I was wrong. I couldn't put it down.
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Jan 19, 2012
Marina
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Страхотно забавна и дори леко поучителна книга. Роалд Дал има невероятен усет към тънкия и не толкова тънкия хумор. Увлекателна, лесна и изключително приятна за четене. Смяла съм се с глас. След последната страница имах чувството, че се разделям с много скъп и забавен приятел. Препоръчвам я на всеки, който има чувство за хумор, но я препоръвам и на тези, които трудно се смеят. Заразителна е. :)
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Jul 26, 2011
Emily
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I knew Roald Dahl had an interesting imagination from reading his books as a child and it is no different here. This book made me laugh out loud on a number of occasions and the plot was completely wacky. This is not for the younger kids because according to Dahl himself, " [Uncle Oswald] makes Casanova look like Winnie the Pooh" and for the fact that the entire story revolves around sex! Mindless (well maybe not mindless due to the goal of a profit because of it), drug enhanced, famo
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Mar 27, 2009
Kambin
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I first read this adult classic as a teenager and was pleasantly surprised that the creator of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory also had fantasies about sultry exotic sex-oozing goddesses called Yasmin Howcomely. Truly wonderfully raunchy, this tale written in the late 1970's describes how in-vitro-fertilisation as a prelude to cryogenic freezing may have taken place in the early 20th century. A truly great romp and graphic enough for all but the most voyeuristic
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Oct 11, 2011
Jen
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What a great read! My friend Peter recommended this book to me because he knew, given my dark sense of humor, that I would love it. This is a really fun read filled with little bursts of wisdom, and some great laughs. For example, Dahl writes: ""I am not a voyeur [...] The act of copulation is like that of picking the nose. It's alright to be doing it yourself but it is a singularly unattractive spectacle for the onlooker".
If you think you would laugh at an image of Fre More...
If you think you would laugh at an image of Fre More...
Apr 03, 2009
Victoria
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At first it was difficult to disassociate the Dahl I knew as a child from this dirty, almost perverse Dahl. I got this book originally because I was told about the sexual content of the book and I wanted to see for myself!
I didn't finish the book. It wasn't that I wasn't enjoying it as such, I just put it down one day and never got round to picking it back up again. Maybe one day I will finish it. It was odd. I have to admit I only got up to page 74 but there didn't seem much of More...
I didn't finish the book. It wasn't that I wasn't enjoying it as such, I just put it down one day and never got round to picking it back up again. Maybe one day I will finish it. It was odd. I have to admit I only got up to page 74 but there didn't seem much of More...
May 04, 2009
CaterinaAnna
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It was rather disconcerting to walk into the staff room and see another copy of the same ancient edition of Switch Bitch that I had recently read sitting in the box. I was momentarily confused: I was sure I hadn't brought it in. However, it was great to see that alongside it were more of Dahl's treats for grown-ups. I was restrained and purloined only this one. Wish I hadn't been, for the others went before I could even register them, so who knows if they will ever come back, let alone if I will
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Apr 07, 2011
Angie
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When I was younger I've read stories by Roald Dahl such as The Witches. I was browsing Half Price Books when I stumbled across this book. A review on the cover said that it was 'Rollicking, Raunchy, outrageous'. This obviously caught my eye and I bought it.
I read the book in about a day and was extremely impressed. The novel is extremely adult and the situations are hilarious.
I'm quite pleased with my whim of purchase because this has become a novel that I recommend to everyone. Defini More...
I read the book in about a day and was extremely impressed. The novel is extremely adult and the situations are hilarious.
I'm quite pleased with my whim of purchase because this has become a novel that I recommend to everyone. Defini More...
Dec 02, 2011
MissInfo
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Raunchy sex novel by the man who brought you Willie Wonka, James and the Giant Peach, and Fantastic Mr. Fox. LOL.
Oswald discovers the world's most powerful aphrodisiac and hides is in chocolate so that his female accomplice can collect the babyjuice of famous men....for re-sale.
Of course I read this in secret as a child..in keeping with my pattern of strangeness as a youth. My parents joined some kind of publisher's book club, which was odd because they neither had any free ti More...
Oswald discovers the world's most powerful aphrodisiac and hides is in chocolate so that his female accomplice can collect the babyjuice of famous men....for re-sale.
Of course I read this in secret as a child..in keeping with my pattern of strangeness as a youth. My parents joined some kind of publisher's book club, which was odd because they neither had any free ti More...
Jan 02, 2011
Nicola
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Boy, this is a fun book to synopsise for friends.
The story begins with one Oswald Cornelius Esquire, who learns from a General about the magnificent and mysterious powder derived from a Sudanese beetle. Its powers are quite magnificent: a few grains on the tip of a needle are enough to drive a man to lustful distraction. Recognising its unused potential, Oswald decides to harness this power in order to make himself a pretty penny. A chemistry student, he begins to manufacture pills a More...
The story begins with one Oswald Cornelius Esquire, who learns from a General about the magnificent and mysterious powder derived from a Sudanese beetle. Its powers are quite magnificent: a few grains on the tip of a needle are enough to drive a man to lustful distraction. Recognising its unused potential, Oswald decides to harness this power in order to make himself a pretty penny. A chemistry student, he begins to manufacture pills a More...
Aug 20, 2009
Purplycookie
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The nameless narrator has revealed snippets of the lovable, lascivious Uncle Oswald's life in other collections ("Taste" and "Switch Bitch"), but this is the only novel--brief though it is--dedicated solely to the diaries of "the greatest fornicator of all time."
I've said it once and I'll say it again, there is simply a shortage of good books focused on erotic humor. This story is rather a caricature of all sexual values that have ever existed. The stor More...
I've said it once and I'll say it again, there is simply a shortage of good books focused on erotic humor. This story is rather a caricature of all sexual values that have ever existed. The stor More...
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Dec 07, 2007
Silvana
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Roald Dahl is a genious! His imagination scope is unbelievable, from the fun-loving and colorful Charlie and The Chocolate Factory to this wicked "My Uncle Oswald"...
Anyone who read this must laughing his/her @ss off and that's a guarantee. The story is about a guy named Oswald who's in his 17 made quite a stir among the ambassadors of several countries who became his customers for a certain product that comes from a Blister Beetle that can produce the most powerful aphrosidi More...
Anyone who read this must laughing his/her @ss off and that's a guarantee. The story is about a guy named Oswald who's in his 17 made quite a stir among the ambassadors of several countries who became his customers for a certain product that comes from a Blister Beetle that can produce the most powerful aphrosidi More...
May 20, 2011
Meave
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Roald Dahl's style, but, SEX. It was entirely disconcerting. The little meta bit about "I don't want my narrative to be just one sex story after another" just called attention to its actually being just one sex story after another, and the ending was rushed.
Also every time he used the word "rape" made me wonder if he actually knew what the word "rape" means, because, No, Roald Dahl.
I'd give it one star fewer but it's still so g-d whimsical I
Also every time he used the word "rape" made me wonder if he actually knew what the word "rape" means, because, No, Roald Dahl.
I'd give it one star fewer but it's still so g-d whimsical I
Jul 28, 2009
Alisa
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Maybe this was more hilarious in 1979. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood. The first part of the story, the humor seemed forced. Like I was supposed to find it all hilarious, but I didn't. In some ways in reminded me of my reaction to Flashman, without being so offensive, just tiring. It picked up a bit once they actually started the famous-men sperm-collection scheme, and I read through the rest much quicker and with a better disposition. A reasonable bit of distraction for an impatient time.
Aug 08, 2011
Lisa
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"What a romp! What a lark!" As they would say in this 1920ish set tale. This is Roald Dahl for grown ups, make no mistake, and he applies his knack for fantasy, playful language, and the grotesque/absurd to an adult story as handily as in his familiar children's lit. Let's just say that the original reference for the word "snozberry" was not kid appropriate. This is a fun read that refreshed my love for language and reminded me that the writer makes the rules and as long as t
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Apr 16, 2010
Katie
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I loved loved LOVED Roald Dahl as a child. He wrote absolutely some of my favorite books. This was my first book of his for grown ups. Honestly I never knew he wrote non-children's books until my Slovakian friend let me borrow this book. He described it as "quite spicy," and spicy indeed it was! It is very much like his other books, outrageous, fun, and very funny, but with an adult theme. I recommend this to anyone who needs a quick read and a good laugh.
Aug 27, 2011
chi
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I haven't read any Dahl books in a long time. I remember loving his talent as a storyteller, and that shines in this book as well. The story is a bit more 'mature' (the lovely dear that recommended me the book caught my attention by informing me that it had 'a lot of sex')than some of my old favourites. It was a bit confusing reading about some of my favourite geniuses being violently seduced, but the narrator had me hooked the whole time. Fantastic read.
