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Summary: This is a creative book...
Review: I love this book. It is an autobiography by himself- Roald Dahl. It is very different from other author's autobiography. He add some interesting point in the book that makes the reader wants to read more. I love all his books. If you ask me for a rate bettew 1-10, I will give it a 10+
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Summary: Roald Dahl the boy.
Review: The book is an Autobiography.
Roald Dahl is telling the story,
about his childhood.
The book is good because it has gruesom thing's in it.
I liked the bit when his nose came off in the car crash.
The blood came pooring out of his nose when his sister crashed, the new car.
I liked the book because it's about Roald Dahl's life and it has funny thing's in it.
I wouid recommend this book to the world.
I would give this book 10 out of 10.
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Summary: A great bok to read
Review: This is a great autoboigraphy by Roald Dahl. It is different than most other autobiographies in that it doesn't just list boring facts that don't interest the reader. Instead, it tells the reader about the many strange and wonderful events that happened in Roald Dahl's childhood. It is life through a little boy's eyes. Some of the things that happened to Roald Dahl when he was young are: putting a dead mouse in a shopkeper's jar of sweets, getting in trouble for putting the mouse there, going away to boarding school, getting in an automobile accident, and being a chocolate taster. As you can probably tell, this is a good book to read, and is different
than other autobiographies.
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Summary: In focus
Review: Ronald Dahl's "Boy" is an exciting book and is easy to read until the very end. From Dahl's days in early schooling to his late teen years he finds himself, causing mischief, going on long adventures, and meeting new people. This book starts out quikly and finishes the same way, but lets you go at the end to wonder what happens in the rest of his life. My favorite parts of the book were, his days on the islands in Norway during the summer, the mischief he caused throughout his younger life, and the way that little changes in his life send him into new parts of the world. I personaly can not imagine life without a father, I had so much sypathy in this book for Dahl because he had no male parental mentor throughout his childhood, but his ability to lead a normal life was great. I enjoyed this book very much and found that it was easy to get into and easier to stay envolved, I would suggest it to anyone looking for a good book.
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Summary: Boy review
Review: In the book Boy, by Roald Dahl, he describes his life in chronological order, making his life story easy to follow. Boy is very descriptive and gives a vivid picture of an English school boy's daily life in the early 1900's. Dahl describes in detail the violent punishments given so freely at boarding school. Those punishments taught him to mistrust adults because, in most cases, they unjustly punished students.Dahl's writing style reaches out to a younger crowd rather than an older crowd. As is evident in most of his books, his view of life is that of a young person, and it is as this young person that he conveys his philosophy: corporal punishment is wrong, parents should support their children, and people should follow their dreams. He compares his life to the lives of young people today. He actually comes out of the book and speaks to the reader. This is a good technique because the reader can personally relate to the book. I would highly recommend this autobiography to anyone interested in looking at a person's daily conflicts through a childlike perspective.
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Summary: ...........
Review: I somewhat disliked the book Boy, which was written by Roald Dahl. To me the book had too much detail at points, the detail was needed to make the book what it is but at other points it was overdone and made me board with the book. When you first read the story Roald Dahl tells about his father and his bother and how they became what they were. I thought that too much detail was put into that it bored me very much. At points the detail was good, when he was in high school, at the point when he was canned 4 times he put into much detail. I thought that that helped show the tuffness of his child hood more then a lot of other things. The beginning of this book really put me to sleep, just about his father and such of his past. After awhile and as he got older he got more curious and into more trouble which made the book more interesting. The book was easy to read, I think Dahl always writes that way, and easy to follow what was happening. The book did pick up as it came closer to the end. The detail that was put into Roald Dahl had a youth full of adventure and sadness, the family trips to the magic island and the mischief he got up to in his days in the sweet shop. Dahl also had sad memories, when his sister died and straight after his dad also died which left his mom to take care of about 6 children.
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Summary: A Review for Boy
Review: Boy was a very interesting book by Roland Dahl. Through his descriptive writing, Dahl, explains the story of his childhood, in great detail. This book has an interesting plot, explaining Dahl's time as a student. Through out this book Dahl, criticizes English schools of the time, for their brutality. In my opinion this was a good book, for many reasons. This book had some humor, as well as many other good things, but I don't recommend this book for younger readers, although this book is a fairly easy read, some parts of the book get very descriptive in violence, and is probably not something you want a child to read about.
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Summary: THE Review
Review: In almost all of his books Roald Dahl deals quite harshly with, and ridicules the authoritarians in society. He believed that "beastly people must be punished" (Pendergast). But it was only when his book Boy was published that the truth behind his reasoning was revealed. For throughout Boy he shares the true tales of his child hood, which seemed to mostly revolve around "beastly" people. He portrays authoritarian figures with evil intentions; as depicted in his other books, such as Matilda. In Boy there are many of these figures, such as the headmasters at his schools, who enjoyed brutally caning their students, and the old lady in the candy shop, who holds some sort of a vindictive grudge against children who enter her store, especially boys. As a result of this, Dahl creates an overwhelmingly negative portrayal of adults, which thus leads to a great appeal to most youngsters.
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Summary: A Dahl Classic
Review: This book was a very interesting read. It progressed very well for a book that is not much more than a compilation of anecdotes. Roald Dahl has a very descriptive writing voice, whether he's describing the incredible beauty of Norway (the site of his summer vacations from when he was four until he was seventeen), or the several incidents when he was caned by the headmasters of his present school (the sound is comparable to a pistol being fired, and the pain is like being branded by a red hot poker). Some of the descriptions are a bit too gruesome or disgusting, for example when he vividly describes how his nose was about to fall off after he was in a car accident, or when he describes the malicious Mrs. Pratchett (the owner of the sweetshop in Dahl's home town) and how grimy and disgusting her clothes and hands were. The book describes a time back when there were no computers or televisions, and when someone wanted diversion, they went outside to look for it, instead of sitting down in a chair or couch and waiting to be entertained by a box. This fact contributed to the overall authenticity of the book, it took you back to when you had to make your own adventures, an era that sounded like one of the most interesting to be a kid in, and since that is unfortunately not possible for me, the next best thing it is to read this book, which I personally recommend to people of all ages.
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Summary: captivating
Review: Boy by Roald Dahl is a captivating novel about a young boy's childhood. The novel catches the reader's attention by the crazy antics that go on. It is very humorous, and interesting, with details that will stick in one's head. This is a short, snappy novel, written in the first person, that is truly a delightful read.
The main character is a young boy who shares stories about his wild boarding school life, and intermittent scary medical adventures. Boy is a distilled autobiography of Roald Dahl as teenager. The author brings a true comedic perspective to his not so funny world. He describes his skewered environment at the same time that he conveys a sense that everything will be all right.
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