Gain Access The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar: And Six More Scripted By Roald Dahl Accessible In Digital Version

book was full of short stories that can be enjoyed by all,

I especially liked "The Boy Who Talked With Animals", Well I enjoyed this collection of short stories much : Especially the first two amp the last two :
The Boy who talked with Animals was just a great one amp the Hitch Hiker was hilarious :D
The Wonderful story of Henry Sugar was indeed wonderful amp the last one which was rather autobiographical was amazing : Wish these stories wouldn't end.
. I enjoyed reading this book, It is a collection of Short Stories, Some of my favorites where:

The Boy who talked with Animals, I love the turtle!!
The Mildenhall Treasure which is based on a true story
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar Sugar Yes Please!! hahaha!!
and
Lucky Break

I love Roald Dahl.
I love how his imagination works, I love his books and it is such a great joy to read them, This book tells us ofDifferent Stories which all of them are amazing, I love the story of Henry Sugar and the story of the Man who sees without his eyes, it is so well written and just beautiful.
Lucky break also one story that I like because it is Roald Dahl's story, His first time being a writer and finding what he really wants to do.
Roald Dahl's books are always such a delight to read and whenever you read his books sometimes your mind starts to wander and starts to imagine beautiful things and just feel so happy.
Myyearold is currently on a Roald Dahl kick, When I asked her, the other day, what she likes so much about his work, she said, “He writes about things like potions that make your grandmother small.
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I've been trying to find a way to please her current taste with his books, while trying to satisfy the requirements of mys reading project, and this has opened up the door to several new reads for us, some of which were completely unfamiliar to me.


A recent one on our search was this one, which is basically a novella by the name of “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” and six other stories that Mr.
Dahl wrote, spanning the time period of, As an interesting aside: three out of thesestories are nonfiction, which Mr, Dahl rarely contributed. According to him, "the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories, "

This was promoted as a book for children, and the cover has been playfully illustrated by Quentin Blake, as was often the case with Mr.
Dahl's work, but

Well um after those first three stories, I would not call this a book for children,

It's not that it's sexual, or violent, or contains adult language it's just that the themes and the stories are mature.
Too mature for children. My daughter listened to the first three with adoration, then drifted away, It was as though she could sense they weren't written for her,

But, turns out, they were written for me,

These stories are great, So great. Fantastic, really. The very first story that Mr, Dahl ever had published, “A Piece of Cake,” that was published in The Saturday Evening Post is included in here, and I had goosebumps, after reading it.
It must have been obvious, when that story appeared in, that a certain magical chord had been struck in readers.
Potions, indeed.

My esteem for Mr, Dahl's writing has multiplied, exponentially, after reading these,

Wow. What a writer. With the COVID initiated imprisonments continuing to come back again the uncertainty of stepping out of our home continues, As I am sure with everyone else boredom and helpless absence of choice of how to spend non professional time at home increases.
The news is full of gloom and doom and everything pandemic,

The unexpected find of this book in our shelf was a welcome break, Roald Dahl to the rescue was what I thought when I discovered this, My daughter had gifted this to my wife many years ago,

And my interest in this made me finish this, As almost in two sessions I was captivated by some “Dahlesque” moments, Inimitable as he is the stories are timeless,

Highly recommended for two hours of undiluted fun and promise to make you stay rooted to your seat.


PS I did not know until I read this that he was”, Tall tales I was utterly, completely bowled over by this book of short stories by Roald Dahl, Never in a million years did I expect the person who entertained me throughout childhood to evoke an entirely different range of emotions in adulthood.


The book containedstories and allof them broke my heart in a million pieces, The most poignant story for me was "The Swan" and I recommend that everybody and their dog should read it.
The main story, “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” was equally engrossing and thoughtprovoking,

What made me completely fall in love with the book was the author's memoirs and his tips on how to become a fiction writer and how he got his start in the writing world.
Of course, I can't forget to mention, the book also included the very first piece he had written describing his RAF days during WWII.


Roald Dahl is a certifiable chameleon in terms of writing and I will be looking into his other books for adults as soon as possible I picked this one up after seeing a review on GR and started it almost two months ago.
It's a book of short stories and I would pick it up when I needed a quick break from work, current reading, chores, etc.
So it taking me two months to read was not a sign of it being boring, All this and I probably had too many books going on at once,

This book contains stories that are quite different from some of the usual Dahl books, Some are pretty short and some are longer, with a total of seven stories, There is even a story of how Dahl got started writing, During my reading of this book, I picked up and read and small book on Dahl's life, Nice to get a big picture view of his life along with how he got his start writing, It's hard to pick one story that I liked best, Could be the story of the pick pocketer, the true story of the buried treasure, or that wonderful story of Henry Sugar.
There was one story I didn't much care for due to the subject matter the story of the swan, But that was just issues I have touchy w/anything w/animals,

Overall, glad I read this one to get a different take on Dahl's writing, Odd collection. Though clearly marketed as a book for young readers, if not children per se it saysand up, this does not really seem like a kids' book to me.
While none of the stories include content that would be inappropriate for young readers by many people's estimation, anyway, none of it really seems aimed at young readers, particularly.
Indeed, some of the piecese, g. Dahl's war memoir, or his somewhat fictionalized account of the discovery of a Roman treasure hoardwere clearly NOT written with children specifically in mind.
Even the stories with important child characters"The Boy Who Talked to Animals" and "The Swan" both intriguing fablesdo not read like stories for kids.
The title story is long, involves multiply embedded narrative levels, and

has meta elementsagain, nothing a younger reader couldn't handle, but also not elements that signal an intent to appeal to children, either.
On the other hand, Dahl's memoir about his childhood and how he became a writer often explains and defines things one would assume most adults know, so does seem aimed at younger readers.
Anyway, the result is a somewhat puzzling mix, Four of the stories are pure fiction, one is a narrativized account of fact, and two are straightup autobiographical pieces.
It feels more like Dahl had a few pieces lying around that hadn't been collected, and which he decided to combine, than it does like a coherent collection.
The short story collection containsstories:
The Boy Who Talked with Animalsstars
The HitchHikerstars
The Mildenhall Treasurestars
The Swanstars
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugarstars
Lucky Breakstars
A Piece of Cakestars

There are several of these that I really enjoyed and the rest were well done.
I love Henry Sugar and the method Henry goes about getting 'powers' after reading about a yogi, Concentration is a powerful thing, That was a well done story and I enjoyed the way it started, A super story.

I thought his autobiographical piece on how Roald began his writing career was wondering and it tied into this autobiography as well with the fighter pilot.
He basically walked right into his career, It was preordained, pretty much, He has some great tips for writing as well and he goes into what his English Lit professor said about his writing, which made you realize they probably didn't know what they were talking about.
They were just meanies.

The last one I really enjoyed was the Boy who could talk with animals, I loved the compassion in this story and the boy riding around on a turtle, It has that magic twist a Roald DAhl story can spin,

I think thesestories are the strongest,

The Swan is a good story, but it was stressful, It's about bullying and it doesn't have a happy ending in my opinion, This is obviously how he felt at school as a boy being bullied, I was driving home in traffic and this story was not good for that as it was so stressful and hard to read.
It is painful, just painful in all ways, It's about human cruelty. It's good, but I won't read it again,

I thought the Hitchhiker and Mildenhall Treasure which is nonfiction were fun and cute, They didn't blow me away, but they rounded out the book nicely,

The last: Piece of Cake was filler, It was ok, but it did not hook me

I'm glad I was finally able to finish this up and I think that this finishes off all the books of Roald Dahl that are considered his children's books.
I still need to read his adult works like Uncle Oswalt, but I'm mostly done with his stuff, It has been a pleasure, .