Switch Bitch
Roald Dahl
Reviewed by: Andrew Scal scalan00@pacbell.net Date: 11 December 2003
Have you read anything by Roald Dahl? His writing style is phonomenal. The book of short stories I read was Switch Bitch.
It combines the Social commentary of George Orwell, the James-Bond dash of Ian Fleming, with a fairly tasteful treatment of sex that would have earned Henry Miller publication by the major publishing houses, with the surprise endings that would have convinced O.Henry to choose a new career (seeing as there was no way he could have come up with anything comparable). While waiting for Oswald, Am reading Over to You, his memories as a fighter pilot in the WW2. Each story is different, and even folks with Boy Scout merit badges in Mystery Novels would be hard pressed to pick up the clues. There is some reason for that, in that some of the info that blows our cranial motherboards is not given until the end. But agood mystery reader should absolutely pick up on a few things as s/he goes along
Am currently reading his 'Uncle Oswald' - the precursor to some of the stories in the book.
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