Review (Book) : Kiss Kiss - Roald Dahl

Ola homosapiens~ I had this book for quite sometimes now and had been thinking about doing the review for like forever but never really come around to do it. This is one of the classic books, by famous British author, Roald Dahl titled Kiss Kiss. Reading has always been my passion since I recognize the alphabet and Dahl had been one of my favourite author. When I was young my Grandparents had been the one who supplied me with books, its a way to make me sit quietely and shut up (I can be quite a chatter if I want to dude..gegege~). So who is Dahl? Ah..I'm sure most of you had the vaguest idea about him, the most that you know that he was a dead writter. But if I ask you, do you ever heard of the fiction movie Charlie and The Chocolate Factory? Alah..the one yang Johnny Depp acted as an eccentric chocolate factory owner tu..~ Aha..sure does everybody will go like 'yeahh..of course'. Okai so, FYI, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory is an adaptation from Dahl's book with the same title, and Rober Dahl is the genius behind the writting. Haa..now you know! *eye-rolled*

Kiss Kiss is a book compilation of 11 short stories which comprise of Dahl's writting. These short stories fall under the category of science fiction, horror and fantasy. The titles of the short stories are: The Landlady, William and Mary, The Way Up to Heaven, Parson's Pleasure, Mrs. Bixby and The Colonel's Coat, Royal Jelly, Georgy Porgy, Genesis and Catastrophe : A True Story, Edward the Conqueror, Pig and The Champion of the World. They were some of Dahl's most macabre-but-without-being-horrifying stories. The story line horrifyingly gives you goosebumps for being macabre with very un-expected twist as ending (Dahl is known to wrote an un-expected ending stories and his childrens' book were best known for its un-sentimentality combined with dark humor). These short stories does not really gives you a certain ending, you can only implied and draw your own conclusion because the ending is not directly stated. Kinda like the movie Inception. This is why it is called literature..it ask you to train your brain to think. All 11th stories has the same element, while some are disgustingly ended, some does make your skin crawl and make you wonder (at least I did), does this really happened in the real world? My personal favorite is Pig. It tells you the story of an innocent orphan boy venturing into the real world after the death of his aunt. The aunt protected and sheltered him from the outside world after the tragic death of his parents and taught him to be vegetarian. Under his aunt's wing, he became a very good cook, cooking delicious vegetarian food. Then his aunt died, and he emerged into the real world (because his aunts requested so). What happened when he went to the real world? Expect something un-expected and twisted from it. You gotta read it to know it guys. Aha..I left you guys to wonder okai? Till then, Happy reading. Cheers!

My source of confirmation on facts are compared to Wikipedia.

P/s : For more info on the author - Roald Dahl visit his very interesting official website.

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