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Switch Bitch: The Visitor, The Great Switcheroo, The Last Act, Bitch (original 1965; edition 1981)

by Roald Dahl

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Title:Switch Bitch: The Visitor, The Great Switcheroo, The Last Act, Bitch
Authors:Roald Dahl
Info:Penguin Books Ltd (1981), Paperback, 144 pages
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Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl (1965)

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Hillarious, engaging, sexy. What more could you ask for? ( )
  lucthegreat | Apr 21, 2013 |
Took this one home with me from the shelf of one of the BookCrossers who attended the meeting at Terschelling. She needed her English books to move again :-)
  BoekenTrol71 | Mar 31, 2013 |
This does not sound like the Roald Dahl I remember. Color me intrigued.
  agirlnamedfury | Mar 30, 2013 |
I knew Roald Dahl wrote fiction for adults. I had no idea I would be as amused as I was. Dahl explores sexuality from various angles, here, as he does other temptations in his children books.

I was fond of the Uncle Oswald stories, and I cannot wait to read more. The stories of a man who is known for his sexuality, for his success rates, for his charisma, were even more cherished when the reader is granted access to the truth about what the end result is of the fantasies.

While the bite of "The Great Switcheroo" was a bit cliche, I admit to wanting to know, "what then?"

"The Last Act" made me cry. ( )
  HippieLunatic | Apr 25, 2011 |
Imaginative and well-written, but although I realize he did write these stories for Playboy, the misogyny and phallomania disturbed me, particularly in the last story. ( )
  owen1218 | Dec 4, 2009 |
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Not long ago, a large wooden case was deposited at the door of my house by the railway delivery service.
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Collection of Four Short  Stories:
1. The Visitor
 2. The Great Switcheroo,
3. The Last Act,
4. Bitch.
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The Visitor >> where we are introduced to the diaries left behind by Uncle Oswald to his nephew; the only treasure he could bequeath. We thus learn of Uncle Oswald's adventure in the Sinai desert after his tryst in Cairo. He meets two of the most remarkable women in his long amorous-filled life. We are also exposed to the "method" he utilizes to hypnotize women with words: "The words themselves, innocuous, superficial words, are spoken only by the mouth, whereas the real message, the improper and exciting promise, comes from all the limbs and organs of the body, and is transmitted through the eyes."

The Great Switcheroo >> Two husbands set out to accomplish something that (to their recollection) hasn't been done before: to sleep with the wife of the other without the wife knowing about it. How do they go about it you ask? Better read to find out ;)

The Last Act >> A sad story about a woman who has lost her husband and never quite let go, even with the return of an old flame from her past.

Bitch >> Returning to another entry in Uncle Oswald's diary is the story of his acquaintance with Henry Biotte, one who has devoted his life to the study of olfaction. He meets Uncle Oswald and proposes that with the financial backing of the former, he could then create a perfume which will send anybody into a sexual frenzy. "There was something diabolically splendid about a person who wished to set back the sex habits of civilized man half a million years." The question is will they succeed in inventing the world's most potent aphrodisiac?
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Part of a series of adult books by Roald Dahl, this volume includes four short stories that explore the delicious thrill of sexual expectation and the double-edged sword that is the power of desire.

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