Ghost Dreams by Matthew Hughes, PS publishing 2022 - Stan Winkelman, career burglar from a long family line of light-fingered criminals, is nearing the end of his career and thinking about retirement on a tropical island. His wife has been dead for a long time, having left him the sole care-giver of Jeannie, a now …
Month: March 2023
ROALD DAHL’S CHILDREN’S MOVIES
By the time Roald Dahl died in late 1990, there were already a few films based on his children’s works, none of which he liked. The most famous of these was the 1971 Mel Stuart version of ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. Despite the commercial success of the movie, Dahl was disappointed that Gene Wilder …
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FROM A DAHL’S EYE VIEW
Roald Dahl would have loved the attention he’s been getting lately - while alive he courted controversy and was often inspired to tweak people's sensibilities with outlandish statements. On the other hand, given how carefully he crafted his work, he probably would have had apoplexy over the intention of his publisher to create new editions …
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A YEAR LATER – PART THREE
A YEAR LATER - PART THREE I’ve always considered myself government wary and, acknowledging history’s horrible examples, more of a pragmatist than a military hawk. I confess that I also never imagined a world entering the 21st Century with some idiot in charge of a major world nuclear power invading an independent country and …
A YEAR LATER – PART TWO
Despite the war in Ukraine dragging on at a huge cost to Russia’s economy, Vlad (the Impaler) shows no signs of backing down his offensive. Like Hitler before him, Vlad has a deeply rooted belief that Western democracies are weak and have no appetite for a long war. His belief was bolstered when he …
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