Matteo

Roald Dahl has a renowned reputation for keeping the author entertained and interested, adding his own words such as Lick-swishing, Fizz-Wizzing, Wondercump, as well as many others. I found the tales of Henry Sugar and Six more to be a bit more advanced then others such as Danny the Champion of the World and Matilda. It had topics and themes that were more suited to a teen and tween audience, such as gambling, casinos smoking to name a few. I thought this was fine considering I had kind of grown out of the Dahl Classics. I began reading and was captivated by the story titles, which were very interesting, and the humour which the great author is so famous for. The "Henry Sugar" story was the best, followed by "The Boy who could talk to animals" and "The swan". These were fantastic to read, but I found that each story in this book seemed to ramble on and on about useless detail. I found myself skimming the parts which were not essential to the story and were full of meaningless information that the reader could afford to skip. The exceptions to this was "Henry Sugar" and "The boy who could talk the animals", but others such as "Lucky Break" and "A piece of Cake", could have been so much better if they had been shortened to make more interesting and all the more engaging, especially the former, which had a terrific start but finished lame.