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Someone Like You [18 stories]
Someone Like You is a collection of short stories by Roald Dahl. It was published in 1953 by Alfred Knopf. The 18 stories featured are: Taste Lamb to the Slaughter Man from the South The Soldier My Lady Love, My Dove Dip in the Pool Galloping Foxley Skin Poison Wish Neck Sound Machine Nunc Dimittis Great Automatic Grammatizator Claud's Dog • Ratcatcher • Rummins • Mr Hoddy • Mr Feasey )
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- Hey! Here's some other collections of short stories you might like:
- The Best Of Ruskin Bond
- Roald Dahl - Someone Like You
- Four Rooms is a great example of Roald Dahl's work..
Four Rooms is a 1995 American anthology comedy film directed by Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, and Quentin Tarantino, each directing a segment of it that in its entirety is loosely based on the adult short fiction writings of Roald Dahl, especially Man from the South which is the basis for the last one, Penthouse - "The Man from Hollywood" directed by Tarantino. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Rooms
Someone Like You https://www.amazon.com/Someone-Like-You-Roald-Dahl/dp/014003... is a great collection of these short stories and a used copy may be had cheap!
- I remember that, when I saw text-generative AI (GPT) demonstrated for the first time, I was reminded of this story. Wow, they actually made what Roald Dahl described in the nineteen-fifties!
Two further easter eggs that I particularly like about this story:
* This story appeared in Someone Like You, published in 1953 by Alfred A. Knopf. The similarity between the publisher’s name and the character’s name Adolph Knipe is likely not a coincidence.
* How very meta is the following fragment:
“For example, there’s a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There’ll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose.”
“Where?”
“In the ‘word-memory’ section,” he said, epexegetically.
