Roald Dahl came out with the most original stories. Whoever would conceive the idea of making a machine to write fiction? Of course at the current technological level, it probably is not possible. But he wrote one convincing story of cornering the market for creating and selling fiction.
With half the world busy getting married and then divorcing the perfect matches at great financial cost, I bet all the poor guys coughing out maintenance and alimony love the story "Mrs Bixby and the Colonel's Coat". For once, the cheating wife was outwitted by her cheating husband.
In "The Butler", the new rich was gotten the better by the butler and the cook. There was not much point in showing off by expensive wining and dining when one does not know good wine from bad.
If you are a betting person, you would enjoy The Man from the South. In betting one finger against a nice car, many lost their fingers over trivial bets.
From tenants, we hear all kinds of stories about nasty land ladies. Yet none would beat Dahl's "The Landlady" who killed and preserved her young and handsome tenants.
A crook pretended to be a parson in going round to different farm houses to buy antique furniture cheap. Most of the time, he won in his deals, but in one particular case he got his due coming.
Better than pan handling, "The Umbrella Man" makes a quick buck "selling" umbrellas that did not belong to him on rainy days.
Katina was a war orphan Dahl's unit adopted during WW2. It was sad that she did not live long enough to be evacuated to USA as in the case of a Vietnamese boy during the Vietnam War.
My children and I are equally enthralled by Roald Dahl.
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