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Was awesome. If your childhood did not involve "The BFG", "The Twits" or "Matilda", you must be dead inside. My personal favourite was "The Minpins", his last book i think. |
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i though his last book was the vicar of dimbleby |
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and hes my childhood jeebus |
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i must've read charlie and the chocolate factory several dozen times as a kid. and the other one, with the elevator.. and matilda was great, too. |
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Maybe it was, i'm not exactly an authority. VERMICIOUS KNIDS |
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im not 100% either. whats The Minpins like ive never read it |
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I'm looking forward to reading them to my son. Quentin Blakes Illustrations were fantastic too. |
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he didn't only write childrens books though, his short stories were brilliant too, pockets like 'switch bitch', kiss kiss' and 'the way up to heaven' spring to mind |
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It's about a boy who discovers a civilisations of tiny people who live inside trees. Fantastic book, i have it as a "book on tape" thing with a dimitri shostakovich soundtrack as well, which is even better. 010101 -----> Yup, quentin blake is also a total geezer. I dunno if anyone here has seen his "short guide to railway safety" or whatever, but it was this public-information guide, with hilariously graphic illustrations, quite sick but very funny :D Morton ------> I haven't read many of his short stories, but "switch bitch" is excellent. I'll check out the others, thanx and such. |
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I haven't actually read many of his children's books, but I liked those I did and am quite fond of his short stories. |
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He was very awesome yeh. |
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I loved "The Witches". brilliant. and Quentin Blake is brilliant too. brilliant. |
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Come to think of it, there isn't a single one of his books that i didn't like. The witches, james and the giant peach, danny the champion of the world... fuggin' awesomez. |
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what about "The Whipping Boy"? tat was witten by him, wasnt it? |
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I didn't much like "danny the champion of the world". but all the rest is brilliant. "George's marvellous medicine". "Revolting rhymes". "Charlie and the chocolate factory". and ofcourse "Boy"! |
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Yea freakin hell. Dahl is da man as it were. Something oh so dark in all his stories though... the Witches petrified me as a child :s |
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it says on Amazon that it's written by someone called Sid Fleischman. I haven't heard of the writer or the book. |
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i've read some of his short stories. most of the ones i read were good. |
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Yeah, the BFG scared me quite a lot when i was younger. The image of giant men coming up the window and blowing dreams into your ears... there's something a wee bit creepy in that. |
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Heh heh... qrter's favorite one is "boy". I'm not surprised. |
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The sequel is called "going solo". Make of that what you will. |
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Roald Dahl was awesome. I sometime read a book of his on a quiet afternoon :) |
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"Boy: A Illustrated Reflection on the Beauty of Masculine Adolescence" by Roald Dahl |
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no, my favourite is "the witches". you should try to read, I think it could help you greatly. |
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Most of his books (or at least certain aspects of them) are a bit creepy. ...But in really good and imaginative ways. |
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Yeah, he's awesome. I've only read "The Witches", "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Matilda", so I will definitely be checking his other books. |
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Esio Trot is probably the only one I ever read, by myself, not having it read to me. Weird. My favourite was the one with the huge granny or something. That was absolutely magical. |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox. That one was a little... -meh. |
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That's George's Marvellous Medicine, I think. |
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That wasn't a reply to that "huge granny" comment. I can't remember which one that is, but it sounds sort of familiar. |
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Give your memory a cookie from me. |
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Yes, "George's Marvellous Medicine". I read that book about four zillion times, paying especially close attention to the psuedo-scientific recipe bits. Good Book. |
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It was a bright sunny day. Four delivery pteradactyls flew along singing a happy song while carrying a rather large package. It was for Fred McFiddlefaddle! The pteradactyls landed at Fred's house. "Thank you very much!", said Fred. "It was our pleasure" said a delivery pteradactyl, and off they flew! Fred was excited. He opened the package. It was a teeter-totter! He could hardly wait to play with it! Then suddenly w M w stopped writing the story! |
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I read all his books up to and excluding Matilda. I used to be bought a Roald Dahl book per week when I was young. And look how normal I've turned out. Thank you, Roald Dahl. |
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Is Roald Dahl Norwegian or English with a Norwegian name? |
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english with norwegian mother or father, and norwegian name. |
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Yeh he's good like see. |
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Not forgetting of course he did the screenplay for You only Live Twice :) |
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deepspace9mm! I also had that minpins audio tape as a lad, and have potent memories about the Shostakovich background symphony- I've been trying to dig up what it's called for years, any idea? |
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james and da giant peach |
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i bought my ikkle brother the one with the fairy tales that have been turned into horrible ryhmes. |
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where in leicester? |
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It’s his quartet no 8, very good sad music stuffs. There’s a version on kronos quartet – black angels that’s excellent, the rest of the album is well worth it too actually. |
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hehe, yeah, great children's author. |
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purrr |
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he's still one of my favorite writers. all his stories are just awesome |
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i rrememberr doing a book rreview of The BFG at arround the time of the BCGs at school, and when i did my prresentation i kept getting them all confused. |
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but yeah, he was grreat, i rrememberr reading tons of his books one afterr the otherr because my mam's frriend lent me a big bag full. |
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Ahh, good 'ol Raul... My good grandma bought me about all his kiddie books when I was a youngster. Upon reaching adulthood, I got all of his adult stories and was surprised that his story "The man from the south" was adapted into that movie "4 rooms". It was the last part of the film, the one that tarentino directed... |
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SHIT! Raul??? you know what I meant... |
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