Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss

Revisiting these for book club (we're doing The Witches and an at the moment ill-defined assortment of short stories), they haven't stood up particularly well. Part of the problem, I guess, is that I can pretty much remember the 'twists' in each of the stories - not that they're all dramatic blind-siders, with many being more in the way of straight up, if unanticipated, plot turns or events. But a bigger part is possibly that I don't have such a taste for this kind of under-the-skin, more than a little nasty style of story - though that doesn't explain why I like John Collier so much. Oh, and some of them have morals, some don't...