Quote: (07-02-2011 03:08 PM)HammockLife Wrote:
Yes, his short stories are exquisite. And his children's books. Not so sure about his adult novel "My Uncle Oswald", which in my opinion is not as well written as the other stuff. Though it gets major bonus points for being about seducing women while living in luxury and having ambitious, international plans.
The protagonist of, "The Visitor," is that same uncle. It was in my general collection of his short story work and was by far the most sexually explicit, but not the only story where strong signals to Dahl's opinion's and rules about women were woven throughout.