I have just finished the book which was the sequel of Dahl's autobiography “Boy.” It took me almost four days to do in between the other stuff that I need to do.
My son has already finished reading it before I started so I asked him how was it. He said that he some parts were boring but some were cool. He meant the landscape descriptions as boring and the dog fights as cool.
The book starts light with humorous anecdotes during the author's voyage from England to Africa. It was quite engaging for me as a start but the book got darker with the onset of the world war. It ends with the young Dahl, after his eventful stint as a war pilot, coming home to meet his family, specially his mother.
It made me shed a few tear, honestly, as a mother, as I read the last bits of the book. My son will most likely become a soldier at one point of his life in the future since his nationality requires him so. They really have no choice unless they change into a different nationality.
Going back to the book, Roald Dahl is one classic writer of his time, indeed, as his storytelling would have the soft and gritty part to it. He made me see wartime from a war pilot's point of view and what it was like during that time. It wasn't heavily retold with the brutality of war but spiced with some lighter mood.
I, as a reader, am truly thankful for Dahl's work of literary as he tells his own story.
Now, I must search and reread the first book next since it's been a while ago that I finished reading it and I almost already forgot how was it.
My son has already finished reading it before I started so I asked him how was it. He said that he some parts were boring but some were cool. He meant the landscape descriptions as boring and the dog fights as cool.
The book starts light with humorous anecdotes during the author's voyage from England to Africa. It was quite engaging for me as a start but the book got darker with the onset of the world war. It ends with the young Dahl, after his eventful stint as a war pilot, coming home to meet his family, specially his mother.
It made me shed a few tear, honestly, as a mother, as I read the last bits of the book. My son will most likely become a soldier at one point of his life in the future since his nationality requires him so. They really have no choice unless they change into a different nationality.
Going back to the book, Roald Dahl is one classic writer of his time, indeed, as his storytelling would have the soft and gritty part to it. He made me see wartime from a war pilot's point of view and what it was like during that time. It wasn't heavily retold with the brutality of war but spiced with some lighter mood.
I, as a reader, am truly thankful for Dahl's work of literary as he tells his own story.
Now, I must search and reread the first book next since it's been a while ago that I finished reading it and I almost already forgot how was it.
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