Product Description

The stories are: The landlady, William and Mary, The Way up to Heaven, Parson's Pleasures, Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat, Royal Jelly, Gregory Progy, Genesis and Catastrophe, Edwards the Conqueror, Pig, The Champion of the World.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #71087 in Books
• Published on: 1987-11-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

About the Author
From the publication of James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in the 1960s to his death in 1990, Roald Dahl became the most successful children’s author in the world. Nearly twenty years later, a fresh generation of children seek out his work with instinctive fanaticism. His creations endure - through Hollywood movies, theatre adaptations and musical works, but still most potently of all through the pure magic of his writing upon the page.

Customer Reviews

Amazing
This is the most enjoyable book I have read in a long while. Roald Dahl has a talent for writing original short stories, incorporating hints of subtle horror, humour and unexpected twists in each. Tales such as 'The Way up to Heaven' and 'William and Mary' are quite eerie but this is all part of the fun. Although you come to expect a twist towards the end of each story, they are not always obvious (the ending to the story 'Pig' was extremely suprising!) If you haven't read this, you're missing out on a group of thoroughly interesting and addictive stories.

Macabre and brilliant
Perverse, inventive and often downright morbid, kiss kiss will be a shock to those only ingratiated with the (rather brilliant) children's stories. Yes, it is true that after reading a few of these tales, the end twist becomes somewhat of an enevitability, but the sheer dynamism and imagination of Dahl's storytelling remains intoxicating.The truly scary William and Mary in particular is a story that will remain with me forever All in all, a sick, frieghtening and thoughourly brilliant collection of tales, from an author who must now be recognised as the greatest short-story writer of a generation.

Good fun
This collection of short stories is certainly an interesting read. Roald Dahl very effectivly creates vile characters with weird and funny viewpoints on life and finishes his stories with a succession of bizarre and macabre twists. However, I thought that there was something curiously one dimensional about the writing rather reminiscent of his childrens stories. I didn't think that the short stories really got into the characters' minds. Overall I found'Kiss Kiss' funny and disturbing but a bit simplistic.