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...Anthony Wong?s Wong Chi-hang, the demon butcher of Macau in ?The Untold Story,? might be seen as a figure of black comedy - a fiercer sibling of the woman in Roald Dahl?s 1953 story ?Lamb to the Slaughter.? In both tales the killer feeds the evidence to the police: in ?Lamb? the cops eat the the murder weapon; in ?Untold Story? they eat the corpse, which Wong has chopped into pieces and cooked into pork buns. Yet we know this is no comedy from the look on the actor?s face. It is a glower of implacable rage...
...lawn; a physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; a pedophile living in the barn; Lithium, Valium, and Halcyon eaten like candy, and much more." The therapist was later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs the book enthusiastically. "I was reminded of Roald Dahl's 'Boy' and 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius'...Burroughs has produced a memoir that's funny and sharp but also humane, as charming as it is revealing." The publicist for this book optimistically predicts that this will be the next 'Nanny Diaries': "People are already talking about...
...this for an also-ran explorer whose legacy is the inspiring result of his great failure. We meet Shackleton (Kenneth Branagh) on a lecture tour, when he learns that Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen has beaten him to the South Pole, a voyage he has tried and failed at. Undaunted, he vows to become the first to cross Antarctica. His wife (Phoebe Nicholls) pleads with him to keep his promise to stay home and go into business. "I'm not a salesman," he demurs...
...witty, brisk dialogue? Her tongue-in-cheek humor? Her vivid descriptions? Her fantastical names and whimsical jargon? Or, more likely, have kids simply exhausted the worlds of C.S. Lewis’ Narnia Chronicles and J.R.R. Tolkien’s Ring Fellowship and even that staple of childhood fantasy, Roald Dahl, welcoming J.K. Rowling’s more approachable—and more marketable—Hogwarts...
...that resembles an English “public school” in its grammar—but has an enchanting meter all its own. These works follow in the tradition of youth-skewed authors like Susan Cooper, John Bellairs, Phillip Pullman, C.S. Lewis and the maestro of macabre gentility, Roald Dahl...