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Slightly more disturbing is the fact that some of Dahl’s adult books are very adult. I don’t recall the details because what I do remember is utter absorption: Dahl made a world, Quentin Blake illustrated it, and I entered it entirely, willingly, wholeheartedly. I don’t know where or when I read The BFG-or Boy or Matilda or The Twits or any of the many Dahl books that I adored-but it’s safe to say that it took place in one long sitting, cover to cover, and I was probably eating cheddar Goldfish crackers and drinking instant hot chocolate. After all, there are few books in the Western canon more beloved than Dahl’s tale of a friendly, gibberish-spewing, snozzcumber-guzzling giant who spends his days catching dreams and his nights whispering them into the unconscious minds of sleeping children.
#ROALD DAHL SHORT STORIES FOR ADULTS MOVIE#
If you’re planning to see the movie or not (I’m leaning toward not-current reviews are meh), just a glimpse of the trailer may send you, like me, into a full misty-eyed spiral. With The BFG, Steven Spielberg’s CGI-enabled adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1982 children’s book, hitting theaters this weekend, you’ll forgive me for waxing nostalgic about the pleasures of childhood reading.