Who knew Roald Dahl was such a monster? (But, was he?)
I just read a salacious piece from an interesting blog called This Recording , entitled ANGRY MAN, by Alex Carnevale , about the so-called "real life" of Roald Dahl. It was interesting, but was it really all true? Carnevale's post basically states that uber successful children's author, Roald Dahl, the creator of classics such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and The Giant Peach , was no more than a racist, bigoted, womanizing, pedophilic, raging, not to mention extremely cruel son-of-a-bitch. The piece has another title as well: In Which We Consider The Macabre Unpleasantness Of Roald Dahl Naturally, I found this piece impossible to put down. But as everyone knows, good non-fiction cannot live by salacious grandeur alone. Facts are good, too. As in this case, I suspect there's so much more to The Long and Winding Tale of Roald Dahl than has yet been told. Somebody very clever should tell it. Complicated people are usually ver