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I did this for a middle school book club and will never again.

March 7, 2024

This was one of my favorite Roald Dahl books growing up, but I haven‘t revisited it as an adult. Still a great story! The love and friendship between Danny and his father is so special, and the way they work together (to give Victor Hazell his comeuppance) is perfect!
Quite an adventure!
And Roald Dahl writes the most nasty, villainous adults! I have to skim read their parts 🤣
(I found this fabulous vintage copy for my shelves!)

#1975 #192025

@TheSpineView thanks for the tag @dabbe

1 I think the Wednesday before Labor Day
2 Oh, there‘s so many, tagged book, Old School by Tobias Wolf, Malory Towers, Gentlemen and Player, by Joanne Harris, In Memoriam, by Alice Winn, The Chalet school series, Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, I‘m sure I‘m forgetting others. I love a novel set in a school, especially an old English public school.

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I was a bit worried as the book started a bit slowly with setting up the backstory. Things took off the moment Danny sets off to find his father, who fails to come home from a pheasant-poaching excursion one night. The story was creative and fun while being more streamlined and focused compared to The Witches, which I also enjoyed. The audiobook includes a great narrative performance. I wish I had read this when I was young!

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“Life is tough, and the sooner you learn how to cope with it the better for you.”

Overall this is a lovely tale, fitting of its author. There is a lot of Dahl's humour, and the narrative is wonderfully, and beautifully, imaginative.

This is a fun and enjoyable book that readers will just love the silliness of. Under the silliness is also a message of how being rude, horrible and unkind will see you pay for it in the long run and that kindness is the way to go – good will always triumph over evil.

Divertente

A re-read from 22 years ago 😂!

Using for #fromavillainsperspective #52books52weeks @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen and #1975 #192025 @Librarybelle

Would also work for #fiction #naturalitsy #naturalitsybingo2023 @AllDebooks