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Anonymous Thu Sep 13 11:48:46 2018 No.11779015 [Reply] [Original]

Happy Roald Dahl Day!

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 11:50:04 2018 No.11779023 >>11779015 Maybe if he didn’t spend so much time hating Jews he could have written something of importance

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 11:53:55 2018 No.11779044 Is there a better children's author? I can't think of one and it really sucks that he's not as well known outside of the UK apart from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 11:54:45 2018 No.11779046 >>11779044 The guy who wrote Amelia Bedilia

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>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 11:59:41 2018 No.11779070 >>11779015 >The Witches is about a race of hideous people with big noses who disguise themselves as Caucasian and infiltrate Western power systems in an effort to corrupt our youth

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:06:07 2018 No.11779087 >>11779067 cringe and unaestheticpilled

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:08:20 2018 No.11779097 >>11779044 I think he and his works are very well known in the nordic countries, in Finland at least.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:14:07 2018 No.11779114 >>11779044 he is definitely known in america. maybe mostly because of the movies, but after jk rowling and dr. seuss, he'd be up there

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:15:23 2018 No.11779120 >>11779044 >>11779097 He's very well known in Sweden.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:16:36 2018 No.11779125 >>11779097 He’s ethnically Norwegian and spike Norwegian as his first language at home so it makes sense

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:21:42 2018 No.11779137 >>11779015 I watched a documentary on him, he was apparently very aggressive and contrarian, frequently changing his mind about things and being controversial for the sake of it. Sounds like the ultimate /lit/ author.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:22:26 2018 No.11779139 >>11779023 I guess introducing children to the magic of reading just isn't enough for sour fucks like you

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:23:56 2018 No.11779143 >>11779067 Unironically correct

Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:27:14 2018 No.11779152

I love Roald Dahl, all /pol/ memery aside. I remember watching the shitty Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as a kid, being impressed because I was 6, and having my mom get me the book; I stole a huge collection of his writings from my school’s library and I read that thing more times than I could hope to count. His short story writing is great, his poetry is fun, his autobiography was super interesting. I distinctly remember a passage about how, when he was a fighter pilot in the War, his plane had a speed setting that couldn’t be returned from; the engine wouldn’t let you go back from full throttle, and you’d invariably have to make your way back soon after going past the point of no return. For some reason this affected me as a young child.
The Witches is unironically in my favorite books of all time, even after becoming (or at least trying to become) /lit/. The man wrote amazing children’s fiction, a genre that I think a lot of /lit/ pseuds disregard because it’s not “patrician” enough for them.
On an unrelated note, Quentin Blake is an amazing illustrator and made Dahl’s books what they are in many ways.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:34:18 2018 No.11779172 >>11779139 don't listen to him. half this board will never realize that fairy tale type stories are more impactful than any of their "infinite jest" bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:37:40 2018 No.11779188 >>11779172 A man who cannot respect fairy tales is a) no romantic, b) no intellectual, and c) no author

Anonymous Thu Sep 13 12:48:35 2018 No.11779234

>>11779152
Thank you for this. I also stole his books from my school and kept them on me, there was a time when his short stories were being sold in cereal boxes and that's when I got to read Esio Trot and other stuff, I think the Giraffe the Pelly and me was in there too. Finding out he was dead only a few years before I discovered him was actually a kick in the teeth, I thought it would've been cool to meet him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 14:01:37 2018 No.11779280 >>11779172 >>11779188 really makes you think

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 14:02:14 2018 No.11779284 >>11779139 Just like jk rowling

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 14:03:40 2018 No.11779290 >>11779284 She fucking sucks. I'm not saying there aren't bad childrens authors and that is pretty obvious.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 14:04:09 2018 No.11779292 >>11779139 >>11779172 >>11779188 Jesus Christ

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 14:53:43 2018 No.11779561 Flying Solo is his best book

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 14:55:17 2018 No.11779571 >>11779015 happy pedophile day! did you know he raped a little girl, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 14:57:10 2018 No.11779587 >>11779044 he's big in norway, we even consider him a norwegian writer

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 15:07:43 2018 No.11779659 >>11779571 BASED AF

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 15:08:55 2018 No.11779670 >>11779571 It would only be bad if he had raped a little boy

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 15:10:06 2018 No.11779683 Has anyone read his adult short-stories? They are pretty dark.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 15:16:53 2018 No.11779718 File: 357 KB, 750x500, david_foster_wallace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>11779571 >audience pussy

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 15:32:13 2018 No.11779802 >>11779044 Fairly well known in France.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 15:33:04 2018 No.11779806 >>11779718 top lel

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 16:37:26 2018 No.11780154 >>11779571 Bullshit. Happy anti-semite day!

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 17:11:30 2018 No.11780277 >>11779280 >>11779292 Start arguing any time you soulless NPCs

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 17:15:12 2018 No.11780289 >>11779587 >parents both Norwegian >learned Norwegian before English I’d say he’s pretty Norwegian

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 19:02:25 2018 No.11780712 >>11779044 Lewis Carroll is better than Dahl

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 19:06:30 2018 No.11780735 >>11779137 Which documentary?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 19:07:46 2018 No.11780744 >>11780277 Just when I thought barbless catchphrases would never top epic tofuboys /v/eddit does it again

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 19:07:51 2018 No.11780745 >>11779292 read The Golden Bough, you colossal faggot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 19:08:55 2018 No.11780751 >>11780712 But his a dead horse, while Dahl's work feels fresher

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 19:25:04 2018 No.11780817 >>11779044 Very well known in Belgium as well. My grandmother bought his collected works for my brother, my sister and me when I was like 10 and I loved all of it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 19:55:58 2018 No.11780928 >>11780817 Favorite Dahl book?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 22:19:07 2018 No.11781453 >>11780751 >Homer feels like a dead horse >Rupi Kaur feels fresher

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 22:21:01 2018 No.11781467 Didn't bother reading the rest of the thread but I have fond memories of being scared shitless of the weird claymation VHS of James and the Giant Peach back in the day and that's all I've got regarding Dahl. But thanks for that, Dahl, RIPIP

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 22:37:16 2018 No.11781537 >>11779087 >he hasn't read Plotinus

Anonymous Thu Sep 13 22:53:20 2018 No.11781596
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>>11780928
not him but some of my favorites were the twits one which there was an image of in this thread and also many others some of which I forget the names of like the one where the boy catches the pheasant and such.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 23:08:55 2018 No.11781642 >>11779067 Fig 1 andrea dworkin

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 13 23:11:41 2018 No.11781651 >>11779670 inverse

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 05:44:05 2018 No.11782736 >>11781596 >the boy catches the pheasant and such. Danny the Champion of the World

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 06:00:24 2018 No.11782761 >>11779044 He's very well known in Australia. I loved Matilda when I was a kid.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 06:24:10 2018 No.11782823 >>11779015 Fun fact: Roald Dahl initiated the development of a new type of medical tool to drain excess brain fluid. He did it in order to help his son, who had to use a similar (but more painful and risky) tool after he got into an accident.

Anonymous Fri Sep 14 08:50:54 2018 No.11783185
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>tfw read The Witches as a 7 year old
Shit was traumatising. The picture of the main witch scarred me for a long time and the main problem of the protagonist wasn't even resolved. The book literally ends with him saying he'll die in three years but that's okay since his grandma will die by then too.

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 08:55:51 2018 No.11783203 >>11779044 Tove jasson is superior imo

>>	Anonymous Fri Sep 14 15:12:29 2018 No.11784679 >>11779044 He was by no means a niche choice here in Canada growing up.

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