Lo zio Oswald

Oh wow... if you want to read the most politically incorrect of all of Dahl's writings.... I found this book for the first time in the kid's section at the public library, where it was nestled between The BFG and James and the Giant Peach. Clearly, that cataloging librarian had not cracked the cover Leggi tutto

What bothers me the most about this book isn't even the sexism, although there is plenty of it to go around. By the truckload. What bothers me is the fact that the characters are so blatantly being raped by the means of a drug rape. Dahl makes light of this issue, tries to make us laugh at it, and p Leggi tutto

Askerdeyken okumamış olmayı dilerdim:) Ama okudum, yapacak bir şey yok. Bayıldım vallahi. Keşke daha uzun olsaydı, karakterlerle arsızlık peşinde dolaşıp dursaydım bin sayfa. Aradığım muziplik, edepsizlik, çapkınlık, azgınlık ve saçmalık bu kitapta bolca mevcuttu. Yetişkinler için çocuk kitabı dedik Leggi tutto

My grandmother has this friend, a woman I have known as my "auntie" since I was very young. The woman always told me sweet stories when I was a child, ones suitable for a child. Last year at Christmas she got a little bit tipsy on wine and began to tell sexual jokes- which, coming from an 80 year ol Leggi tutto

Roald Dahl might like us to dismiss the rank male chauvinism, tired stereotypes, and hackneyed writing in this book, on the grounds that his "Uncle Oswald" is a charming old rogue. But there's nothing charming about the implied contempt for women that oozes through the lazy prose of Oswald's creaky

Stop whatever you're doing and read this book right now. You're welcome.

What started off as a fun, entertaining, well-written frolic ultimately, due to its sexism, homophobia, and glorified rape-culture left a horrendous taste in my mouth. (view spoiler) [My Uncle Oswald is a fake memoir of a lecherous millionaire explaining how he made his fortune -- ultimately, by using the dried pow (hide spoiler)] Leggi tutto

I haven't added a book to my favorites page in FOREVER and I'm so happy that the honored spot is going to this one. What a lot of fun. Just what a spectacular book. I mean, does this book reveal deep and special feelings within me? No - nor should it have. That would have been inappropriate and uncom Leggi tutto

Es una novela corta de carácter erótico-festivo (o sea, humor con toques light de escenas sexuales) ambientada a comienzos del siglo XX y donde relata en primera persona las aventuras que le acontecieron al tío Oswald y sus asociados en su intento exitoso de hacerse rico, muy rico. Es muy divertida d Leggi tutto