The man is a genius and everything he writes deserves to be read at some stage. ( )

I took me a long time to finish this book. I've read it over a couple of years, mainly during Christmas holidays, reading it one story at a time. Because I felt when I started it, that if I were to read them all at once, I would quickly stop enjoying it. Roald Dahl is indeed master of the 'twist in the tale', but after a while you start expecting a twist and you start searching for them. So for me reading them over a long period of time was better then reading them consecutively. ( )

This long-awaited omnibus contains all the stories from Roald Dahl's world-famous books -- Over To You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch -- plus eight further tales of the unexpected.

Dahl is truly a master, and although, most people would count him as a raconteur of macabre and dark tales, I think he equally manages to touch you and warm your heart with his very human (albeit very odd) characters, from Mr Botibol, to the little Fingersmith. ( )

The art of short story writing is considered to be a a sharpening of the knife exercise by writers and nobody is sharper at the twist in the tale as Roald Dahl. Scary, funny, odd but always coming to an unexpected conclusion - Bravo ( )