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foreverday 's review for:
Danny the Champion of the World
by Roald Dahl
This was a re-read of a childhood favourite. Kid me would probably have rated it five stars, and I have very fond memories of it (and the Jeremy Irons film too). Now I was suddenly aware of all the subtext with the poaching and it took a bit of the joy out of it. Sympathising with Victor was definitely not something I did before. Still, even with that the father/son dynamic is still an absolute favourite of mine, and it is just a sweet tale of getting one over the Bad Guys.
(Also, more randomly, a few moments that had stuck with me for literal years were: the description of people smiling with their eyes, the idea of Danny's father writing a different fact every day for the schoolchildren and the image of the meat pie Danny gets given with eggs hidden inside of it like buried treasure. I don't even particularly like pie and his description of it was enough to get me salivating. I'm not sure what it means that those were the ones I chose to remember, but reading the lines again was like coming across old friends.)
(Also, more randomly, a few moments that had stuck with me for literal years were: the description of people smiling with their eyes, the idea of Danny's father writing a different fact every day for the schoolchildren and the image of the meat pie Danny gets given with eggs hidden inside of it like buried treasure. I don't even particularly like pie and his description of it was enough to get me salivating. I'm not sure what it means that those were the ones I chose to remember, but reading the lines again was like coming across old friends.)