chloekg 's review for:

Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl

4.0

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I first read these as a young woman and was enthralled to learn Roald Dahl was so scintillatingly twisted. Re-reading it with more life experience, I am inexpressibly grateful not to have been born a woman in the time of Dahl's England. The short stories are still saucy and well composed. Occasionally they escape his usual thematic preoccupations, and there is more than one substantially good idea lurking in their pages. All told, I can no longer read his work without mild revulsion, hence, four stars.