Going Solo

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Summary: Roald Dahl's sequel to "Boy"
Review: If you want to hear the rest about Roald Dahl's exciting life, read Going Solo. Even though I'm doing it for my required biography, I think it's pretty good. In this, they have Roald Dahl's trip to Africa, and him in World War II. If you don't like hearing about blood and injuries, this would not be your kind of book. By Charles, age 9

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Summary: gOING sOLO IS GREAT!!!!
Review: If you want to show your kid or student that an biography is fun to read, well, in "Going Solo" Roald Dahl describes every fun and depression of his experience as a teenager to adulthood. It is just as fun reading "Matilda" and "The Witches". The language is easy to read, lots of photographs took by Roald Dahl himself, and the ending is satisfying.
The story is about Roald Dahl's first career in Africa (Sudan) working for the Shell Oil company. When the second world war broke up he joined the royal airforce throughout middle east and the coast of Greece.
Throughout the book you follow a period of his life, experiencing both the positives and negatives of his adventure. You also get to find out how he begins to build ideas, and these ideas become great children books that are unforgettable to this day.
This is not just a great read for the Roald Dahl fans, but everyone who loves for adventures and wild creativities. Go get it and start reading!

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Summary: This is so much better than watching it on Biography!
Review: If you want to show your kid or student that an biography is fun to read, well, in "Going Solo" Roald Dahl describes every fun and depression of his experience as a teenager to adulthood. It is just as fun reading "Matilda" and "The Witches". The language is easy to read, lots of photographs took by Roald Dahl himself, and the ending is satisfying.
The story is about Roald Dahl's first career in Africa (Sudan) working for the Shell Oil company. When the second world war broke up he joined the royal airforce throughout middle east and the coast of Greece.
Throughout the book you follow a period of his life, experiencing both the positives and negatives of his adventure. You also get to find out how he begins to build ideas, and these ideas become great children books that are unforgettable to this day.
This is not just a great read for the Roald Dahl fans, but everyone who loves for adventures and wild creativities. Go get it and start reading!

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Summary: Roald Dahl Review "going solo"
Review: In the book "Going Solo" Roald Dahl describes every fun and depressing part of his experience as a teenager to adulthood. Its in his hilarious style where no word is boring, and the language is easy to read, lots of photographs took by Roald Dahl himself, and the ending is satisfying.
Everyone dislikes going on wars but Roald Dahl enjoyed it. He thought that it was a free travel and it was interesting. The story is about Roald Dahl's first career in Africa (Sudan) working for the Shell Oil company. When the second world war broke up he joined the royal airforce throughout middle east and the coast of Greece. some of the things he gets himself into and out of are incredible...like when he captures the war's first prisoners, or crash-lands in the desert, or flys in the Battle of Athens...the list goes on and on.
Throughout the book you follow a period of his life, experiencing both the positives and negatives sides of his adventure. You also get to find out how he begins to build ideas, and these ideas become great children books that are so memorable today.
Best parts: all the flying missions, of which Dahl writes so enthusiastically, by a 6'6" pilot crammed into the tiny cockpit of a Hurricane.
Worst: I cannot believe how the RAF could send so many practically untrained flyers into combat in aircraft they had never even flown before

Going Solo was, like all of Dahl's books, wonderful. I only wish he'd have written a third about his later adulthood. unfortunately he died before he could do that.

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Summary: It's a pity there isn't a sequel to this one.
Review: In this sequel to Boy, Roald Dahl writes about his life as a young adult. After leaving Repton, his boarding school, he signed on with the Shell Oil Company and was sent to East Africa, which is now called Tanzania. While Dahl was serving in Tanzania, World War II happened and he signed up with the Royal Air Force. He chronicles in detail his work for Shell, and his experiences as an RAF pilot.

In East Africa, Roald Dahl had a near-fatal encounter with a deadly black mamba, whose poison can kill you in about two seconds. Right after the war broke out Roald's servant, a descendant of warrior tribesman, decided to become a warrior himself and killed a civillian. Roald had to spirit him away before the murder was discovered. And just to show how dangerous flying with the RAF was, one day when Roald returned from a mission his tent-mate told him, "I boiled enough tea for two, just in case you happened to come back." He was eventually shot down, but survived. While recuperating in the hospital, he fell in love with his nurse.

Going Solo was, like all of Dahl's books, wonderful. I only wish he'd have written a third about his later adulthood. Pity he died before he could do that.

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Summary: A Great Autobiography
Review: It's a pity that amazon.com descibes this book as "Reading level: Young adult," because it really should be classified among Dahl's adult literature, along with "Boy," "Switch Bitch." and my personal favorite, "My Uncle Oswald."

This is a beautifully written, exciting and fascinating story that will rivet the attention of readers of any age. I sent a copy to my uncle, a former Marine pilot during World War II now in his eighties, and he couldn't put it down.

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Summary: Half of Roald Dahl's life in 200 pages
Review: SM Summary

Going Solo is an auto-biography of Roald Dahl. In this book Roald Dahl joins the army to fight in WW II while he is in Africa in the 1930's and 40's, Dahl comes face to face with many dangers, including lions, poisonous snakes, war waging people, and many other things while he is fighting for England. He has many adventures while he is in the war. This book is a good read and is hard to put down. if you like Roald Dahl than read this book.

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Summary: "An amazingadventure through WWII"
Review: This autobiography tells of Mr. Dahl¹s early adult life and how it led him to experience a life of action, adventure, and even pain, as the beginning of a career suddenly changes as war chances thicken and conflicts with the Germans turn his life completely around.

The story begins when Mr. Dahl is on a boat headed for Tanzania in Africa. He is expecting to become an employee of the Shell Oil Company. Upon arrival in his new town, he gets word that if World War II were to start, he would have to join the army and help round up all the Germans living nearby. Off course, World War II does start, and his incredible adventure begins.

This book¹s plot is full of impact and moves from one suspenseful moment to another. For this reason, I liked it. It was also very unpredictable in that I never quite knew what was going to happen next. The book was full of action and very hard to put down. I would recommend it to anybody who likes war action stories, full of unbeatable odds. END

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Summary: gOING sOLO IS GREAT!!!!
Review: tHIS BOOK IS GREAT!!!
Roald dahls bio is actually like a story!
Instead of writing boring stuff about life, Roald Dahl will make u very intrest and will make want to read more
You would n't put the book down until you finish it
And even after finishing, you would dream of it and want to read it again
Another book reccomende is Boy, tales of childhood

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Summary: This book shows how Roald Dahl can write books like he dose
Review: This book shows the key points of the formation of the vivid imagination Rald Dahl has. It gives an indepth look into the wonderful and not so wonderful experience's he has in Africa, and being a airoplane pilot in world war II.