Boy by Dahl

[Rachel Bray]

Well, I read Boy last night.  I was not expecting it to be 
about himself.  It was wonderful. I loved it.  Especially 
how you could see where he got some of his ideas for 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.  I was a bit taken aback 
by the beatings, though.  Geesh.  I mean, my school had 
paddling (and unfortunately, I was the recipient of one in 
the 7th grade but that's a whole other story and it puts me 
in a really bad light and I'd rather keep up appearances 
that I'm a sweet, quiet and caring individual so....I'll 
just leave it at that) but nothing even remotely close to 
what he went through.  Good lord.  I loved the pieces of 
the letters from home that he added.  The spelling cracked 
me up and it was cute how it would back-up what he was 
writing about.  The car wreck made me a bit wibble, though. 
 But, all in all, excellent.

Thanks for the recommendation.  BFG is next.  I've only 
read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the 
Giant Peach so it's been fun to rediscover Dahl.

Rachel Bray
The Ohio State University
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