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reading (Kiss Kiss)
May. 1st, 2007 09:24 pmI finished "Kiss Kiss" this evening. Afterward, I wrote an email in which I ended up writing most of this review so I'll plagiarise myself shamelessly here.
This was the first book intended for adults by Dahl that I've read. I really didn't know what to expect, but I picked it up because I love his kid books.
The book is a collection of short stories that are a variety of humor, horror, commentary. The humor is of the slightly dark cynical variety that floats around in Dahl's well known kids' books. In some of the stories he leaves the ending completely unstated: pick up the clues, make your conclusions, but the ending isn't in the print.
I thinking it would be a good book for young adults without being a typical YA book. There is nothing immature about the themes, but there are morals to most of the stories and the level of writing seems about right. The language and style are old fashioned, but the stories don't lose their accessibility, they just feel a little simple for the length. Maybe modern YA should be modelled on older adult fic, not as crude, explicit, or fast moving as modern stories, but still meaty enough to be interesting and varied.
31. Roald Dahl "Kiss Kiss"
This was the first book intended for adults by Dahl that I've read. I really didn't know what to expect, but I picked it up because I love his kid books.
The book is a collection of short stories that are a variety of humor, horror, commentary. The humor is of the slightly dark cynical variety that floats around in Dahl's well known kids' books. In some of the stories he leaves the ending completely unstated: pick up the clues, make your conclusions, but the ending isn't in the print.
I thinking it would be a good book for young adults without being a typical YA book. There is nothing immature about the themes, but there are morals to most of the stories and the level of writing seems about right. The language and style are old fashioned, but the stories don't lose their accessibility, they just feel a little simple for the length. Maybe modern YA should be modelled on older adult fic, not as crude, explicit, or fast moving as modern stories, but still meaty enough to be interesting and varied.
31. Roald Dahl "Kiss Kiss"
