Mina's review
Boy: Tales of Childhood
by Roald Dahl
Mina's review
Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl
Mina's review
rating:
Very intriguing and absorbing--I have to say that I have never been a big fan of his children's books---but his two autobios. Boy followed by Going Solo are superb. The stories are chapters from his life during atime that the world was relatively untouched and unexplored, and Roahld is living in exotic places like Africa and witnessing things such as a lion dragging the family cook out in its jaws to the stark realism of a small English schoolboy scaring the hideous sweet shop lady with a schoolboy prank. His real life stories are even better than the ones he made up, i.e. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory etc. Did not want to put this book down or for it to end. Luckily, he wrote a sequel, Going Solo--also wonderful, but not quite as much fun as "Boy."
