I really enjoyed listening to the audio version with Dan Stevens as the narrator! I now understand where he got all the crazy ideas for his books.


2019 Popsugar Challenge: A book you see someone reading on TV or in a movie (You've Got Mail)

زمانی که هفت‌ساله بودم، رول دال رو با این کتاب شناختم و از همون دوران تبدیل شد به کسی که تمام کودکی مو با کتاب‌هاش گذروندم و تنها کسی که آرزو داشتم شبیه اون باشم و شبیه اون زندگی کنم و شبیه اون کتاب بنویسم...
داستان زندگی رولد دال از زمان کودکی تا اوایل جوانی‌ش رو می‌خونید،، پر از داستان‌های جذاب و هیچان‌ انگیز...

It’s a 10/10. Books like this, they remind you of why you fell in love with reading in the first place. I feel like YA and Children’s literature is some of the best written out there. Always worth going back to it every now and again.

I highly recommend audiobook for this one. Even if that isn’t usually your thing.

'We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine.'

"Boy: Tales of Childhood" was one of the books gifted to me by my girlfriend, Portia, on my 26th birthday. She had urged me to read this before delving into Roald Dahl's other work of personal nature, "Going Solo". So I started this today and finished it today. The book is described by Dahl not as an autobiography but just a recollection of events that he could skim from the top of his consciousness, events that have stayed with him for decades until 1986, when he wrote the book, a mere four years before he died.

"Boy" is layered with an aspect that I appreciate most in literature, fiction or non-fiction: honesty. The tone, narration and overall nostalgic feel of the book never comes across as hokey invention, glossy or over-saturated. His wording is simple, as if telling the story himself to his own descendants, or any rounded group of intent listeners. The story itself follows Dahl through the death of his little sister and father; the challenge these deaths bestowed upon his mother; his time in boarding school and being a "fag" in Repton and having to succumb to their own prefects from hell, referred to as Boazers.

There are also stories of childish cunning and mischief as Dahl relates the tale of a prank pulled on the clerk of a local candy shop, and on his sister's pipe-smoking fiance. Towards the end, Dahl relates the difference between working as a businessman in the petroleum industry and being a writer. It is brief but he sums it up well in an astounding few paragraphs without any overindulgence. Another chapter to look out for is his ruminations after having to sample Cadbury's chocolate, which led him to write one of his most famous works: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

"Boy" is an honest book, a highly personal work rooted in the reality of a writer who dwells in universes that are filled with charming whimsy. If you are even remotely interested in Roald Dahl or his writings, this should come highly recommended.

رولد دال یک نویسنده محشره!بامزه است و قلم خوب و ذهن شگفت انگیزی داره
هرچند که کتاب هاش برای قشر کودک و نوجوانه ولی من فکر میکنم برای بزرگتر ها هم باید شیرین باشه
داستان این کتاب به صورت ماجراهایی از زندگی شخصی خودش در دوران کودکیه ماجراهایی که هم جالب و بامزه ان هم گاهی دردناک و عبرت آموز

I always had trouble really appreciating Dahl's books. This one changed everything! This book is an autobiography of Dahl from childhood to finishing school. His life is a mixture of naughtiness from his books plus Hogwarts school adventures. This is officially my favorite Dahl book!

“When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.”

وكانت المفاجأة انها مش قصة من قصص روالد ابدا .. لا دي قصة حياتة او طفولته بمعنى اصح وليها جزء تاني قصة فترة شبابه
الحقيقة الكتاب كان لذيذ جدااا وخفيف على القلب وسهل فهمه اوي ولغة بسطية ومواقف مضحكة وشقية كتير من حياته في المدرسة من الطفولة ولحد سن العشرين

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“It is almost worth going away because it's so lovely coming back.”

كانت تجربة ممتعة جدااا وحبيتها كلها على بعضها ومستنية اقرأ الجزء التاني كمان واشوف شبابه كان فيه مصايب ايه تاني

ارشح الكتاب بششششدة للي عايز يقرأ انجليزي لكن لغة بسيطة سهل فهمة تعوده على اللغة نفسها

Review coming up soon

"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not a biography. I would never write a history of myself."
So this is more a collection of stories from Roald's life. because he is such an amazing writer you feel that you get to know more about him, than through a normal autobiography. Some of the really interesting facts I learned from this book:
1. In the 1930's they removed your tonsils and adenoids without any anaesthesia
2. No-one needed a driver's license. When they delivered your car, they quickly showed you how it worked

This book has a very special place in my heart. Because Roald Dahl is my favorite children's author (and generally, one of my favorite authors ever) and this book, the first volume of his autobiography, is written in the same magical way as his works of fiction. The memories and stories in this book are so vivid that they make me nostalgic, even though I was born more than eighty years after the author in a very different place from England. I think we all have a few books that we value on a deeply personal level for no apparent particular reason, this is one of those for me, it has immense sentimental value and it warms my heart whenever I open it and flip through its pages.

Maravillosamente maravilloso.

RESEÑA COMPLETA ♥

رولد دال راوی فوق العاده ایه که طنازی هاش رو آروم آروم بهت تزریق میکنه.