Want to Read "So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone." I cried the first time I read this quote. I had never heard anyone put that feeling into words before.
As a child I remember my Grandmother reading Roald Dahl when I was in hospital; Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and The Twits. I was in a room with other patients, some of them grown men, and all were listening in on the telling.
@@mangot589Honestly I find his books even more enjoyable as an adult because he has lots of clever adult messages and subtext in his books. He’s also just straight up hilarious haha.
@Gipsy Danger Ikr I mean how does he get the time to do it all, what is the recording schedule like? Plus I think he has a newsletter and a podcast besides. He publicly espouses that others write his monologues (check out Blaze), but how many must he perform-a-week to keep up his channels? Its insane.
@Gipsy Danger I have had the same thought. I really enjoy Simon Whistler's channels and content too. But I hope he doesn't overworks himself. Take care, Simon.
The traits he showed with his personality, the distancing, the controlling, the attention seeking, those are all well known to be associated with head injury, that plane crash certainly changed him...
@@WanderingWriter True. Most historiqns agree, based of contemporary accounts, that a major jousting accident was followed by negative changes in his behaviour and personality. Head injuries, and even planned neurosurgery, can lead to temporary or permanent changes in disposition. Had over a hundred neurosurgeries myself. Funny thing is you can be aware of the changes, yet unable to fight them.
This guy created childhoods, we used to fight over who would get to read his books every two weeks in the school library cause we only had about 1-2 copies of each of his book. My favourite was Matilda!
Still, his writings might be helpful as arguments against corporal punishment in schools and against anti-vaxxers - everyone who hits children in his books are villains and he was publicly for vaccinations after what happened to his daughter Olivia (though I almost shudder at the thought of how vicious he'd probably get if he had to speak or write about anti-vaxxers today, his younger daughter Lucy said he was never subtle with his words which is why she couldn't say what he would say if he were still alive today and found out that there were still anti-vaxers).
I absolutely loved Roald Dahl as a kid. I must have read every book he ever wrote while I was growing up. One day when I have kids, I'll make sure they read his stories. He's truly an incredible author.
I've read his autobiography of his childhood, many years ago (Boy: Tales of Childhood). It is not only a brilliant read (of course) but a truly intriguing story, he was definitely one of a kind.
absolutely love how emotional invested you are in your work, the slightly teary-eyed few seconds at the 24 minute mark filled me with somber feelings. Keep up the great work, you living legend!!
Even after watching I still consider him the greatest children’s author of all time. Loved his works as a kid and he invented a device that my best friend has in the back of his head to essentially keep him alive. May not have been a nice guy but my opinion of him will never change.
Cristopher Lee would be a cool one for the future - so many fascinating little moments even aside from his acting career, not least him stumbling across the last public execution by Guillotine in Paris during his travels.
I wanna know about General Tso of the chicken fame. Supposedly he was actually a formidable commander during the Qing Dynasty. That and I just like the chicken and idgaf if it’s not actually “authentic” because it’s Chinese-American food anyway.
@@AllTheCloudsArePink He definitely had an interesting life. Participated in the Hungarian Revolution, was exiled for his activities, stowed away on a ship to New Orleans, became an actor, became a leading activist against fascism, eventually starred in Ed Wood films before his death.
May as well.......not sure about you, but I've pretty much blown though my backlog of videos I had on my watch later list and am slowly loosing my mind to sheer boredom......
When I saw Matilda back when I was 6 I became convinced that I would get powers if I read enough books. So I started reading like crazy, and much to my disappointment at the time, I never did get those powers. (In my defence, I was 6 LOL) Still love books though, so some good came out of it.
He understood the wonder, magic, delight and pain of being a child and the adults that stopped believing in magic and forgot they once were children too...He is a genius.
My grandad said that using one of those aircraft guns they only ever knocked one down, they hit them sometime but never downed them. He was in effect saying they were crap.
Love the new channel! And i also love your biographies on authors, they're some of my favourites. Roald Dahl was one of my favourites as a kid. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, The Twits, so many great books. The BFG, The Twits, and Matilda were probably my favourites.
Probably because Fleming was an intelligence officer who wrote fictional accounts of British Intelligence. The direct connection probably the interest of his personal life. Dahl is best known for his children's books which did not directly link to his personal life. Of course, I imagine they're fairly equal on fame. Both had multiple books turned into fantastic movies, and you won't meet too many people who don't recognize references to their works.
Funny you should mention Fleming & 007. William Stephenson, the Canadian Spymaster, mentioned in the script, was Flemings' model for 007. Churchill himself, gave Stephenson his code name:- Intrepid. An excellent book titled "A man called Intrepid" talked about what could be said about him. Except for his obscurity, He would make an excellent subject for a Biographics film.
My favourite Childrens author by far, i remember going on family holidays in Europe reading his books and loving his outlook on the World. Thanks for the memories Roald Dahl!!
I really enjoyed this one. Honestly, after watching so much Business Blaze lately (and loving the freeform of it), coming back to a serious informative video like this one is... oddly enough, "refreshing" in its own comforting way.
A developed western country has taken so long to abolish corporal punishment. This is insane. Then again even child labour took a shockingly long time to be abolished in GB.
Thanks for this Simon. I read pretty much every Roald Dahl book multiple times as a child. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is still one of my favorite books. Really enjoyed learning more about him.😃 📚
I really appreciate you and all the content you produce Simon. Trapped in our homes and often our own minds its nice to have your videos to watch and learn. Thank you.
Staph having more channels. That is the ultimate flex on every single human on earth that wants to have a youtube channel. jajaja sending love from Ecuador
It’s important to understand that Ronald’s childhood was during the times prior to and inception of child labor laws. Children were largely viewed as resources and truly believed that they should be seen and not heard. Mind you, that wasn’t everyone but a large portion of society believed that.
Thank you for all your hard work and non stop new videos, it makes my days at the steel mill a heck of a lot easier listening to videos on all your channels, especially business Blaze from clock in to clock out, keep it going please!
I’ve watched your videos for awhile but now you have a new place in our life. Every day after breakfast you teach my kids and I about history or geography. I’m sure you didn’t think about it when you started this channel but thank you and Keep Calm and Carry On.
I would have loved to hear how he met Quentin Blake because Quentin's drawings truly brought his books to life. I had a life very similar to Matilda, that book gave me a LOT of hope growing up. Thank you Roald Dahl.
“Because of his stories.” True for me. Our elementary school librarian was a Ronald Dahl fanatic. Because of that, I love reading, libraries, education.
He was a great author I liked most of his books and stories apart from “The Landlady” that story traumatized me. It traumatized me even more when my Reading teacher showed us the episode that aired.
Roald Dahl was also very critical of Hollywood, especially towards his adaptations of his books. He despised every change that they did in Wilky Wonka, Matilda, and so on that when Hollywood wanted to adapt James and the Giant Peach, Dahl adamantly refused, saying he would rather take his stories to the grave with him than to see it get butchered by Hollywood. After his death, his wife had no quarrel about Hollywood adapting the story and accepted Hollywood's deal.
I love " A Lamb to the Slaughter " I saw it before I read it on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Like the story better without the Hitchcock moralizing at the end 📖 Be safe and well everyone 💗😊🤗
I always thought that "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" was really creepy. In addition to the ideas of vengeance mentioned in the video, the Oompa-Loompas were really slaves on a plantation. The work, for me, was save by the extraordinary film with Gene Wilder in a most charming performance
22:37 Another hydrocephalus patient here. With me it was from birth, undiagnosed until I was 13 because my case of it was so mild it took severe headaches for a neurologist to order a CAT scan, then surgery to implant an adult-length shunt. The same neurologist performed the surgery, and told my folks and I that when he made his first incision, the pressure was great enough that neural fluid spurted out and hit the wall behind him.
And I prefer the term "hydrocephalous," because I think "hydrocephalic" sounds impolite, imbecilic and too American. Both words are correct English, though, as any decent college dictionary or the OED will prove.
Cadbury was the inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...? Well, I suppose that makes sense. James and the Giant Peach was the first of his books that I read, although I saw the newer version of the movie adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory before that.
I don’t know why but this made me so emotional, Roald Dahl died exactly one year before I was born almost to the minute Infact and I always feel a calling to his works. Read “Boy” that’s an eye opener
I read his autobiographies when I was about 8-9 and didn’t really understand much of the WW2 stuff. When I grew up and understood more WW2, I really was impressed with his flying duties, especially during the Greco-Italian war
As with most creative giants, there are always two or more sides to their personality which usually serves as a well for their creativity. He certain had this.
The last assignment I ever did was a paper on Roald Dahl's life. I never got to finish the paper because I was in a Junior's class. I've always been bummed about not finishing it because I'd never been so fasinated with an assignment.
Skitch and sinkers to describe being angry and depressed sounds both sweet yet really upsetting at the same time given the context of word processing in the brain being damaged by a stroke.
I was familiar with Roald Dahl but had no idea how many of my favorite stories were written by him. James and the Giant Peach and Matilda are a couple of my all time favorites.
His wife Patricia sounds like a horrible, ungrateful person. Your husband literally devised a way to cure your impediments and bring you back to normal, but all you can do is complain about him being too demanding and controlling and rigid. Guess what maybe your quality of life was improved only because he was religiously determined to the point of obsession to strictly stick to the regimen and help YOU. Some women are their own worst enemy. And eventually years later when the marriage ended she has the audacity to act bitter and jealous. she seems like an overtly toxic creature, a person who probably let her destroyed self esteem and life's pain destroy whatever good precious things she had remaining. this is commonplace after you lose all your rationale to resentment and a sense of victimhood.
Roald Dahl is perhaps one of the most influential authors on my childhood. To this day, no matter what people think, I consider him to be one of the best authors I've ever read. Thank you, Simon, for making a, as always, well researched and lovely video.
I read Boy many years ago, and it was instrumental in making me profoundly thankful that I was born working-class and poor, so no public schools for me. Frankly I don't know how he ever survived all that.
Other interesting authors may be Chinua Achebe or Robert A. Heinlein (Things Fall Apart and Stranger In A Strange Land, respectively) Awesome job as always Biographics
Check out my new channel Megaprojects! th-cam.com/channels/0woBco6Dgcxt0h8SwyyOmw.html
Could you do Enver Hoxha?
you have me at new channel, though I've seen it already cause mailing list
Lol someone watched Real Engineering
Ok I'm subscribing sight unseen it better be good lol
Do you sleep?
Want to Read
"So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone."
I cried the first time I read this quote. I had never heard anyone put that feeling into words before.
You are definition of overly dramatic
Hasebe when
@@hellothere2464 Being "dramatic" lol.
Lol okay?.
Beautiful
Man, Dahls ex wife is a master savage. "Dahl is old, but at least I got his best years. Now he just has a nurse"
My gods, she’s a gem 😂
The level of sass 🤣🤣
Hi affair with another woman went on for 13 years before Neal divorced him.
As a child I remember my Grandmother reading Roald Dahl when I was in hospital; Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach and The Twits. I was in a room with other patients, some of them grown men, and all were listening in on the telling.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful memory of your grandmother :)
That’s the thing about Dahl. Adults can enjoy him too.😀
@@mangot589Honestly I find his books even more enjoyable as an adult because he has lots of clever adult messages and subtext in his books. He’s also just straight up hilarious haha.
Simon, you're a machine. Hardest working man on youtube.
@Gipsy Danger Ikr I mean how does he get the time to do it all, what is the recording schedule like? Plus I think he has a newsletter and a podcast besides. He publicly espouses that others write his monologues (check out Blaze), but how many must he perform-a-week to keep up his channels? Its insane.
nicholas dalli He is very efficient.
nicholas dalli If one’s got a good enough schedule, motivation and don’t half-ass it (almost) anything’s possible.
he's a fact robot
@Gipsy Danger I have had the same thought. I really enjoy Simon Whistler's channels and content too. But I hope he doesn't overworks himself. Take care, Simon.
His books shaped my childhood.
Matthew Kelly I hope you’re ok then
And mine!
Lamb to the slaughter did that to me too hah.
Same
Same here!!
“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” - Roald Dahl
Obviously
The traits he showed with his personality, the distancing, the controlling, the attention seeking, those are all well known to be associated with head injury, that plane crash certainly changed him...
twocvbloke that’s a good observation
I've nursed people with damage to the parts of the brain responsible for processing the information for social functioning and you are correct.
I remember hearing/reading somewhere that Henry VIII might have suffered a similar injury which may explain what he is infamous for
@@WanderingWriter True. Most historiqns agree, based of contemporary accounts, that a major jousting accident was followed by negative changes in his behaviour and personality. Head injuries, and even planned neurosurgery, can lead to temporary or permanent changes in disposition. Had over a hundred neurosurgeries myself. Funny thing is you can be aware of the changes, yet unable to fight them.
Wow a certain Orange Coloured president must have been at the pointy end of a hypersonic missile crash
Simon and team should get an award for most TH-cam channels. You're a mad lad Simon Whistler. Thanks for the quality content!
I call his group of channels the "Whistlerverse"
He's the reason why I decided to be a writer
His understanding of the child's mind, beha and imagination was second to none.
I preferred Spike Milligan
Me too my friend. He's a huge inspiration.
Hate to break it to you, Simon doesn’t write his scripts!
Me too man.
This guy created childhoods, we used to fight over who would get to read his books every two weeks in the school library cause we only had about 1-2 copies of each of his book. My favourite was Matilda!
We fight over Goosebumps by R.L Stine..
Whenever I read about someone like Ronald Dahl I always have to say to myself “Admire the talent and leave it at that.”
091053JG - 😂🤣😂
Roald Dahl, you mean.
why only adimre the talent?
Ignorance is bliss...
Still, his writings might be helpful as arguments against corporal punishment in schools and against anti-vaxxers - everyone who hits children in his books are villains and he was publicly for vaccinations after what happened to his daughter Olivia (though I almost shudder at the thought of how vicious he'd probably get if he had to speak or write about anti-vaxxers today, his younger daughter Lucy said he was never subtle with his words which is why she couldn't say what he would say if he were still alive today and found out that there were still anti-vaxers).
I’ve binged on your channel during this quarantine. This video just made my day, I love his stories. 🤟🏼🤟🏼🤟🏼
I absolutely loved Roald Dahl as a kid. I must have read every book he ever wrote while I was growing up. One day when I have kids, I'll make sure they read his stories. He's truly an incredible author.
I've read his autobiography of his childhood, many years ago (Boy: Tales of Childhood). It is not only a brilliant read (of course) but a truly intriguing story, he was definitely one of a kind.
It's such a good book!! Funny, poignant, occasionally heartbreaking.
I read his biography when i was a kid. Interesting childhood yes
Fimbo Feez
You found his holocron?
He's a Dark Lord of the Sith..
I'm YouR BIGGEST fAn BANe make me your apprentice!
Even more interesting than this video could capture. I recommend Boy, it's such a good book!! Dahl was such a gifted storyteller.
Lord Bane, did you learn to use the force from Matilda?
absolutely love how emotional invested you are in your work, the slightly teary-eyed few seconds at the 24 minute mark filled me with somber feelings.
Keep up the great work, you living legend!!
The drama.
Even after watching I still consider him the greatest children’s author of all time. Loved his works as a kid and he invented a device that my best friend has in the back of his head to essentially keep him alive. May not have been a nice guy but my opinion of him will never change.
No one said he isn't an important part to people's childhood. That doesn't mean we should ignore his flaws.
Nah more like Shel Silverstein
Cristopher Lee would be a cool one for the future - so many fascinating little moments even aside from his acting career, not least him stumbling across the last public execution by Guillotine in Paris during his travels.
Strawberry Station, and he was a war hero.
he already made it
I wanna know about General Tso of the chicken fame. Supposedly he was actually a formidable commander during the Qing Dynasty.
That and I just like the chicken and idgaf if it’s not actually “authentic” because it’s Chinese-American food anyway.
I vote Bella Lugosi
@@AllTheCloudsArePink He definitely had an interesting life. Participated in the Hungarian Revolution, was exiled for his activities, stowed away on a ship to New Orleans, became an actor, became a leading activist against fascism, eventually starred in Ed Wood films before his death.
1:10 - Chapter 1 - Of mice & children
4:45 - Chapter 2 - The adventure begins
8:10 - Chapter 3 - Dogfight
11:15 - Chapter 4 - Gentleman spy
14:30 - Chapter 5 - Deadly sins
18:20 - Chapter 6 - Life at the gypsy house
24:20 - Chapter 7 - A good husband ?
28:15 - Chapter 8 - BFG ?
"The world's under quarantine. Everything is shutting down. What should I do? I know! I'll start yet another channel!" - Simon, probably.
May as well.......not sure about you, but I've pretty much blown though my backlog of videos I had on my watch later list and am slowly loosing my mind to sheer boredom......
@OUTLAW NEVADA 😲 whaaaat?
OUTLAW NEVADA 😂
Allegedly.
When I was young, I was obsessed with Matilda. I wanted so badly to be able to move things with my mind 😂
ME, TOO!
I think all young girls around the age of matilda when the film came out wanted to do the same. I did!
chelsea hulmston assuming I am a girl 😂
When I saw Matilda back when I was 6 I became convinced that I would get powers if I read enough books. So I started reading like crazy, and much to my disappointment at the time, I never did get those powers. (In my defence, I was 6 LOL) Still love books though, so some good came out of it.
@@chelseahulmston9056 As a 30 year old man with 2 kids, yeah still wish I was Matilda.
Before I got into Harry Potter when I was eleven, Roald Dahl's books were the only books I would read so they hold a special place in my heart :)
You guys should cover Allen Ginsberg or Lucien Carr some of the other writers of the beat generation. Really a crazy story and there is even a murder.
Two if you count William S. Burroughs killing his wife. If he hadn't had such a good lawyer.......
@@shyathena34 If he hadn't come from such a wealthy family, you mean.
Roald Dahl literally has a book about his life called boy: tales of childhood
Thank God you're here Captain Obvious!
It's mentioned in the vid :P
Two books, Going Solo is about when he is older and went to war.
Was the word, literally, really necessary? As if the existence of the book, means no other discussion of his life should exist?
He understood the wonder, magic, delight and pain of being a child and the adults that stopped believing in magic and forgot they once were children too...He is a genius.
YES, finally Roald Dahl!! Waited for this one for years!
My grandad said that using one of those aircraft guns they only ever knocked one down, they hit them sometime but never downed them. He was in effect saying they were crap.
Love the new channel! And i also love your biographies on authors, they're some of my favourites. Roald Dahl was one of my favourites as a kid. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, The Witches, The Twits, so many great books. The BFG, The Twits, and Matilda were probably my favourites.
My favorite story by him was the witches.
The twits was funny as well
I like that one too.
That was the one about Nancy Pelosi, right?
@@Mister_MS.PAC-MAN what?
I Love the Witches it's my favorite!!
Incredible man who made my childhood a little more fun. Never read his books but loved the films and tales unexplained.
Why is Ian Fleming more famous than Roald Dahl? This guy was a real-life James Bond.
Probably because Fleming was an intelligence officer who wrote fictional accounts of British Intelligence. The direct connection probably the interest of his personal life. Dahl is best known for his children's books which did not directly link to his personal life.
Of course, I imagine they're fairly equal on fame. Both had multiple books turned into fantastic movies, and you won't meet too many people who don't recognize references to their works.
Funny you should mention Fleming & 007. William Stephenson, the Canadian Spymaster, mentioned in the script, was Flemings' model for 007. Churchill himself, gave Stephenson his code name:- Intrepid. An excellent book titled "A man called Intrepid" talked about what could be said about him. Except for his obscurity, He would make an excellent subject for a Biographics film.
Thank you for being my online encyclopedia with all of your channels! Dhal was my favorite author as a child!
My favourite Childrens author by far, i remember going on family holidays in Europe reading his books and loving his outlook on the World. Thanks for the memories Roald Dahl!!
I really enjoyed this one. Honestly, after watching so much Business Blaze lately (and loving the freeform of it), coming back to a serious informative video like this one is... oddly enough, "refreshing" in its own comforting way.
I remember Patricia Neal as John Wayne's Nurse and love interest in the movie "In Harms Way", Great actress.
Megaprojects is off to a cool start. It's sort got a mixed atmosphere of Biographic and Businessblaze. Business casual, if you will.
Dahl would have been happy to learn that corporal punishment in United Kingdom schools was finally abolished in 1999, just nine years after his death.
A developed western country has taken so long to abolish corporal punishment. This is insane. Then again even child labour took a shockingly long time to be abolished in GB.
@@mikshinee87 if I recall another episode on simontube made by Mr Whistler about chimney sweeps were still using children in the 1900s
Torodiani is a good writer. Simon is a great reader. This biographic is the best yet.
I loved knowing more about my favorite author!! Thank you Simon!
Thanks for this Simon. I read pretty much every Roald Dahl book multiple times as a child. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More is still one of my favorite books. Really enjoyed learning more about him.😃 📚
The wonderful story of Henry Sugar was my favourite 😊
I really appreciate you and all the content you produce Simon. Trapped in our homes and often our own minds its nice to have your videos to watch and learn. Thank you.
Staph having more channels. That is the ultimate flex on every single human on earth that wants to have a youtube channel.
jajaja sending love from Ecuador
It’s important to understand that Ronald’s childhood was during the times prior to and inception of child labor laws. Children were largely viewed as resources and truly believed that they should be seen and not heard. Mind you, that wasn’t everyone but a large portion of society believed that.
Thank you for all your hard work and non stop new videos, it makes my days at the steel mill a heck of a lot easier listening to videos on all your channels, especially business Blaze from clock in to clock out, keep it going please!
I watch a few of your channels , and quite enjoy them . However , this video really stands out to me . Very well written and presented . You da man !
I’ve watched your videos for awhile but now you have a new place in our life. Every day after breakfast you teach my kids and I about history or geography. I’m sure you didn’t think about it when you started this channel but thank you and Keep Calm and Carry On.
How about a grammar lesson? "...you teach my kids and _me_ ..."
I loved his books as a child! If you haven't already, id love to hear about Tolkien and CS Lewis and their bromance
Simon owns 10% o TH-cam at this point
Didn't he wrote the screenplay for "you only live twice" the bond movie?
You've become an essential part of my morning routine. Thank you!
I would have loved to hear how he met Quentin Blake because Quentin's drawings truly brought his books to life. I had a life very similar to Matilda, that book gave me a LOT of hope growing up. Thank you Roald Dahl.
Please consider doing videos on these people:
1. Dennis Rader
2. Jack London
3. Upton Sinclair
4. Jane Austen
5. Jack Ketchum
Rami Ungar definitely want to see the BTK one. he hasn’t done a killer in a while.
My love for his book titled BFG (Big Friendly Giant)❣️❣️❣️
@Patrick Trist It means that too, but because of ID Software as opposed to Dahl.
That my favorite too
One of my favorite authors of all time. Thank you, Biographics!
I always read Great Glass Elevator after Chocolate Factory as it was hilarious with the boy president and the knids.
“Because of his stories.” True for me. Our elementary school librarian was a Ronald Dahl fanatic. Because of that, I love reading, libraries, education.
This video Blew my mind! I started watching Tales of the Unexpected a few months ago. Didn't know he was the Author/Creator of so many things i Love.
He was a great author I liked most of his books and stories apart from “The Landlady” that story traumatized me. It traumatized me even more when my Reading teacher showed us the episode that aired.
Story pls
"Pig" traumatised me! Horrific.
Very good episode of ‘Tales of the unexpected’
You’re so interesting and DRY. LOL. TY
Incredibly interesting. He played a huge part in the development of my imagination as a boy
Roald Dahl was also very critical of Hollywood, especially towards his adaptations of his books. He despised every change that they did in Wilky Wonka, Matilda, and so on that when Hollywood wanted to adapt James and the Giant Peach, Dahl adamantly refused, saying he would rather take his stories to the grave with him than to see it get butchered by Hollywood. After his death, his wife had no quarrel about Hollywood adapting the story and accepted Hollywood's deal.
that's why the family apologized to get more money from adaptations
I love " A Lamb to the Slaughter " I saw it before I read it on Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Like the story better without the Hitchcock moralizing at the end 📖 Be safe and well everyone 💗😊🤗
I remember reading a short story in school about the candy lady. The description of her fingers was vivid and haunts me to this day.
How did you not mention the fact that his father only had one arm?
AND only had one arm because he broke his other arm and the drunk doctor f'd it up 🤦♀️. That horrified me as a kid.
Kira Marie exactly!
I always thought that "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory" was really creepy. In addition to the ideas of vengeance mentioned in the video, the Oompa-Loompas were really slaves on a plantation. The work, for me, was save by the extraordinary film with Gene Wilder in a most charming performance
I never liked that film
I found all his books creepy.
he was my fav author....and is also is now..i have ended up also giving his books to my children
When do I show up on this channel?
PS: don't butcher the German neither.
I would absolutely love if you guys did a video on Baron D’Holbach. I love your channel it is very informative!
22:37 Another hydrocephalus patient here. With me it was from birth, undiagnosed until I was 13 because my case of it was so mild it took severe headaches for a neurologist to order a CAT scan, then surgery to implant an adult-length shunt. The same neurologist performed the surgery, and told my folks and I that when he made his first incision, the pressure was great enough that neural fluid spurted out and hit the wall behind him.
And I prefer the term "hydrocephalous," because I think "hydrocephalic" sounds impolite, imbecilic and too American. Both words are correct English, though, as any decent college dictionary or the OED will prove.
Amazing video as always Simon
Cadbury was the inspiration for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...?
Well, I suppose that makes sense.
James and the Giant Peach was the first of his books that I read, although I saw the newer version of the movie adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory before that.
'Matilda' gave me such hope as a child.... Being smart is a means of escape!💙💙💙
I don’t know why but this made me so emotional, Roald Dahl died exactly one year before I was born almost to the minute Infact and I always feel a calling to his works. Read “Boy” that’s an eye opener
Roald Dahl was way more interesting than I thought.
Thank you Simon for this. You will always be the true host of this channel ^^
I read his autobiographies when I was about 8-9 and didn’t really understand much of the WW2 stuff. When I grew up and understood more WW2, I really was impressed with his flying duties, especially during the Greco-Italian war
As with most creative giants, there are always two or more sides to their personality which usually serves as a well for their creativity. He certain had this.
My all time favorite author. Thank you for this video!
Simon, can you do JRR Tolkien?
Great video Simon! I never knew any of those things about Roald Dahl! Very interesting.
What a great video!!!!
I do stand on my feet and clap man
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
You neglected to mention his screen writing credits such as the James Bond classic You Only Live Twice.
He also did chitty chitty bang bang
I love Rolled Doll. His tales of the unexpected are great.
The last assignment I ever did was a paper on Roald Dahl's life. I never got to finish the paper because I was in a Junior's class. I've always been bummed about not finishing it because I'd never been so fasinated with an assignment.
Roald dahl was one of the most influential people in my life, also my favorite book was bfg
Skitch and sinkers to describe being angry and depressed sounds both sweet yet really upsetting at the same time given the context of word processing in the brain being damaged by a stroke.
One of my childhood favorites for sure. I’ll never make anything as good as his work.
This was nice, Simon. Great job!
Thanks so much for this video is really helped me write me report on roald dhal for my final paper in 8th grade😀
I’d like to see a Biographics video on Harlan Ellison and/or Jack Kirby. If you haven’t made them already.
I was familiar with Roald Dahl but had no idea how many of my favorite stories were written by him. James and the Giant Peach and Matilda are a couple of my all time favorites.
His wife Patricia sounds like a horrible, ungrateful person. Your husband literally devised a way to cure your impediments and bring you back to normal, but all you can do is complain about him being too demanding and controlling and rigid. Guess what maybe your quality of life was improved only because he was religiously determined to the point of obsession to strictly stick to the regimen and help YOU. Some women are their own worst enemy. And eventually years later when the marriage ended she has the audacity to act bitter and jealous. she seems like an overtly toxic creature, a person who probably let her destroyed self esteem and life's pain destroy whatever good precious things she had remaining. this is commonplace after you lose all your rationale to resentment and a sense of victimhood.
Roald Dahl is perhaps one of the most influential authors on my childhood. To this day, no matter what people think, I consider him to be one of the best authors I've ever read. Thank you, Simon, for making a, as always, well researched and lovely video.
*of
@@kcbh24 what were you even trying to correct lmao
While your doing Biographics videos on writers can you please do one on the Blacklisted Hollywood Writer Dalton Trumbo
I read Boy many years ago, and it was instrumental in making me profoundly thankful that I was born working-class and poor, so no public schools for me. Frankly I don't know how he ever survived all that.
Simon you're going to be the only youtuber left pumping out videos at this rate!
Holy Hell! What a crazy childhood! Thank you for this. Loved his books. Also, another channel, Simon?! Ye gods, man! How many is that now? 6? 8?
Speaking of awesome authors how about a biographic on Sir Terry Pratchett
Absolutely
Yes please
Ook!
Other interesting authors may be Chinua Achebe or Robert A. Heinlein (Things Fall Apart and Stranger In A Strange Land, respectively) Awesome job as always Biographics
Loved his books as kid. There was just something about his character writing that made the stories so fascinating and unique.