Roald Dahl wrote a lot of books, amongst them he wrote “Boy” which is a sort of an autobiography. It is still not an ordinary autobiography. The story goes just the way a child would have looked upon his or hers life and told the story.

Dahl starts the story by telling about his family, both in England and in Norway. The story continues when he starts at school at the age of seven. He tells about the incident with Mrs. Prachett when Roald and some of his friends put a mouse in the Glob stopper-jar.  Later he tells about when he pretended to have appendicitis, just because he was homesick. The idea he’d got from his ancient sister since she really had appendicitis a while earlier. At that time he attended St. Peters school, which was a boarding school.

The book contains a lot of more or less funny and more or less disgusting episodes, such as when Roald met a boy in the sick room when he had the flu. The boy got a boil removed from his leg. Roald explains the experience in details, just as he does in the rest of the book. It is amazing for a grown man to remember such thing so well.

When it comes to Roald Dahl and his relationship with his mother, I would say it is a quite strong relationship. They loved each other very much and do much for each other. For example when Roald Dahl had been caned of the principal for putting the mouse in the glob stopper-jar at Mrs. Pratchett’s, his mother went strait to the principal and yelled at him. Another example of their strong bond is when Roald Dahl pretended to have appendicitis just to get home to his mother.

In my opinion this is a really good book. I loved reading it, and I certainly will read it again. I found it a bit disgusting sometimes, like when the boy next to Roald Dahl gets his boil removed, and when Roald Dahl gets his tonsils removed, but I kept on reading just because I wanted to know what was to happen next. I feel that Roald Dahl really had the ability to write in a way that makes the whole story interesting for the reader. I loved this book, just as I love many others of Roald Dahl’s books, and I would place this book among my top ten favourite books.

This book I would recommend to both young and old people, especially for the way Roald Dahl tells about his life, and young people can learn and laugh with or of him.