Reviews

Relatos escalofriantes de Roald Dahl by Roald Dahl

nssutton's review against another edition

5.0

planned to read for halloween, as they're the sort of spooky i could handle. nice train reads.

hopeykatt's review against another edition

4.0

Some of the stories were boring and some were creepy but others were like, what the hell is going on? I wonder if any of them could happen in real life.

adenise47's review against another edition

4.0

Some of these stories were good and some were not. I would recommend this book. I enjoyed most of the stories in the book.

titanic's review against another edition

2.0

When I started this book, I enjoyed the stories. I particulary loved the Skin and Lamb to the Slaughter as they were really interesting, the only trouble was, the more I read them, the more boring they become. It was like the further into the book you go, the more the stories don't connect in your brain. Nothing really stuck after the first two. The deeper into the book I went, the more I disliked the stories. This annoyed me as I have never read a book by Roald Dahl that I haven't loved. He's one of my favourite authors - I grew up reading his work.

I'm extremely disapointed with the book, but I'm rating it 2/5 for the two stories that I really loved.

somelatenightreading's review against another edition

3.0

Read in 2023: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

-Skin: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-Lamb to the Slaughter: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Sound Machine: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-An African Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-Galloping Foxley: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Wish: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Surgeon: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-Dip in the Pool: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-The Champion of the World: ⭐️⭐️
-Beware the Dog: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
-My Lady Love, My Dove: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

emmaaadub's review against another edition

4.0

I enjoyed this collection a lot! The first two in particular were my favorite.
I'm very excited to read more of Roald Dahl's other books.

ohkaykayreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

2.5

This was an interesting read, the majority of the stories kept my attention. I especially enjoyed the title story; Skin, Lamb to the slaughter, The sound machine and The Surgeon.

evanmc's review against another edition

3.0

This collection of short stories is a bit of a mixed bag. At their best, they read like some of the more subtle episodes of the Twilight Zone. At their worst, they are predictable and obvious. All told, it is worth reading for the few select stories that are truly wonderful. Don't expect the same child-appropriate tone of the BFG or James and The Giant Peach from Skin, either.

mikelyn31's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.25

jarichan's review against another edition

3.0

Als ich über dieses Buch stolperte war ich nicht minder überrascht - Roald Dahl schrieb auch für Erwachsene? Das muss ich mir natürlich genauer ansehen!

Die Geschichten haben allesamt auch einen sehr dahl'schen Vibe, sind aber im Gegensatz zu den Kinderbüchern erwartungsgemäss weniger unschuldig und niedlich. Eher im Gegenteil - diese Kurzgeschichtensammlung passt hervorragend in die Herbst- und Geisterzeit. Manche sind mehr, manche weniger verstörend, aber stets begleitet von einem unheimlichen Gefühl der Gefahr und Bedrohung.

Leider habe ich jedoch auch das Gefühl, dass ich die meisten Texte sehr schnell wieder vergessen werde. Ein paar Szenen werden mir vielleicht bleiben, aber im Grossen und Ganzen sind diese Geschichten weniger einprägsam als Dahls unvergessliche Kinderbücher.

Man muss dieses Buch nicht unbedingt gelesen haben, aber wer ein paar unterhaltsame Kurzgeschichten für die Zeit um Halloween sucht, wird hier bestimmt fündig. Für Fans der Kinderbücher kann es auch interessant sein, den "erwachsenen" Roald Dahl kennenzulernen. Für mich war es auf jeden Fall eine neue Erfahrung, die ich nicht missen möchte.