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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: And Six More
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: And Six More

Written by Roald Dahl

Narrated by Andrew Scott

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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Seven superb stories, from the world's no. 1 storyteller

Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins.

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Release dateJul 25, 2013
ISBN9781101628980
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar: And Six More
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Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl (1916-1990) es un autor justamente famoso por su extraordinario ingenio, su destreza narrativa, su dominio del humor negro y su inagotable capacidad de sorpresa, que llevó a Hitchcock a adaptar para la televisión muchos de sus relatos. En Anagrama se han publicado la novela "Mi tío Oswald" y los libros de cuentos "El gran cambiazo" (Gran Premio del Humor Negro), "Historias extraordinarias", "Relatos de lo inesperado" y "Dos fábulas". En otra faceta, Roald Dahl goza de una extraordinaria popularidad como autor de libros para niños.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Some things are considered classic: 1969 Mustangs, little black dresses, and chocolate-dipped frozen bananas sold at county fairs. This chick finds it hard to mess with that formula, but De La Cruz and Johnston’s foray into the exploding dystopian market sure comes close to meeting that mark of fabulous. I swear from the start of this read I was c-o-l-d, as in frozen to my seat so I could find out what happened next in the story. The female protagonist, Nat, has secrets from the outset even from the reader. She has an inner voice speaking to her, directing her towards her destiny; however, it’s unclear if that fate is for good or evil. Ryan Wesson, or “Wes”, is her counterpart, the typical version of hot: as hell, under the collar, and as a pistol. Together, these two characters instantly combust, especially once the action moves to the boat Wes captains—The Albatross. (Yes! The authors incorporate wonderful, beautiful, and spot-on references to the classics of old.) Even though I enjoyed the description and plot at the beginning of the story set in New Vegas, the tale picked up tremendously once the renegades hit the open seas.The flavor I savored the most, however, was when I bit into the rich layers De La Cruz and Johnston cooked up for a new twist on the dystopian franchise by adding a wonderful swirl of magic and fantasy by revealing Nat’s calling as a dragon rider. The only time things became stilted was when the authors tried to stuff too much explanation and background into the chocolaty shell of the banana, causing it to fall off the stick every now and again. But make no mistake; I’m buying a ticket to next year’s fair for my opportunity to taste the sequel.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Frozen was an interesting mix of post apocalyptic future, military/government tyranny and magic. I found the idea of this future Las Vegas to be fascinating. I wish there could have been just a tad bit more time spent there so I’m a bit torn on that respect – but the journey gets even more engaging once the tale takes us outside of Las Vegas.

    This was a story that was reaching for so many elements and because of that some of sort of fell by the wayside. In that way I think it both worked and didn’t work. Ultimately, I believe whether a reader will enjoy Frozen will really depend on how busy they like their reading to be. While I feel rather middle of the road on Frozen I do think it is a book that I would pick up and read again at a later time – AND likely enjoy more the second time around. I’ve read a fair number of debut author titles the past two years and this one had a debut author feel to it. Slightly rough around the edges and in need of a tad bit more polish but still enjoyable. I think this is one that may get better with the next book.

    I liked the main characters Nat and Wes and they had a blossoming relationship that was interesting to see develop. There was however, some undefinable element that left me wanting something more. What that is I can’t explain and can only hope I see it in book 2. I do wonder if this wouldn’t have made a better adult series instead of a young adult one.

    For those who are really loving YA post apocalyptic fiction and would like it with a dose of magical elements thrown in this would be a title to consider.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I would like to thank Orchard Books and NetGalley for granting me a copy of this e-book to read in exchange for an honest review. Though I received this e-book for free that in no way impacts my review.Goodreads Blurb:"From New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston comes this remarkable first book in a spellbinding new series about the dawn of a new kind of magic.Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature—freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows.At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called “the Blue.” They say it’s a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. More importantly, it’s a place where Nat won’t be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light.But passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson to take her there. Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. But can true love survive the lies? Fiery hearts collide in this fantastic tale of the evil men do and the awesome power within us all."A heady mixture of action, fantasy, and a realistic dystopian future, all combined with the sweet thrill of emotional confusion, this story seems to have something for everyone. Nat is one of those people who is far more than she appears to be on the surface; yet even she doesn't know who, or what, she truly is. In a land of martial control, freezing temperatures, and the complete loss of new technological advances, there are essentially two types of people - those that are prey and those that are predators. Yet somehow in this dystopian world lives a third type of person, known as 'the marked.' These people all have two things that make them stand out from the rest - they have a physical mark of some sort, and they don't have the traditional brown eyes.Nat is one of the marked. After escaping a terrible childhood Nat has been listening to her inner voice, a voice that helped her make her escape relatively unscathed. But she's afraid of her inner voice, because it doesn't sound at all like her. So whose voice is she hearing?Her desperation to find the mythical land known as 'the Blue,' a land like theirs used to be - where the yellow sun shines, and plants and animals grow everywhere, where grass grows on the ground (all things she's only ever heard of, or read about in the ancient books) - all this has Nat taking the largest risk of her life. She is going to become a jumper, a pilgrim. And for that she needs to hire a runner and pray that she gets an honest one.This is basically where Wes, Shakes, and team enter in force. Every member of Wes' team is a unique character, and all well crafted, demonstrating their quirks, as well as their personality flaws and strengths. While Wes and Shakes are the dominant figures amongst the crew of runners, all of the other crew members are three-dimensional. As with the action, the characters show who they are, making me feel as if I was right there with them instead of sitting somewhere reading about them - a true testament to the abilities of both authors.In the beginning the relationship between Nat and Wes is rocky at best. Yet they both feel drawn toward each other for an unknown reason. A feeling they both do their best to resist, though for different reasons. Watching their relationship unfold is like finding a flower growing in the middle of a concrete parking lot, beautiful, stubborn, and inexplicable. Pay attention to their relationship, for something happens during the climb to the story's peak that could be very important for the future development of this story overall. It certainly surprised me, and I've been wondering about it ever since.As the characters' personalities became more familiar to me, the pacing of the action also increases. The development of the story is well tied together, with characters and arc of the story dependent upon one another. True to form for an action-packed story, the peak is reached at the end, leaving us with a cliffhanger ending. Though violent, nevertheless the ending left me primed and ready for the next book in the series!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Ok, where to start...

    In the beginning of this book I wouldn't have given it two stars. The story was all over the place and I felt like it was only being told to me in clips. It felt like there was parts missing and it became hard to keep track of what was going on. The characters felt very disconnected and the love between Wes and Nat was weird and unbelievable.

    When I got to 70% of the way of having the book finished the storyline finally started getting interesting and held my attention. Don't get me wrong, the story still felt a little rushed and all over the place, but not quite as messy.

    Sylphs; pirates; slavers; marked ones- who have magical powers, a mystical creature, a world in despair-this book had many facets to it and was full of adventure.

    This was an interesting and different concept for a book. It was imaginative and a story unlike any other I have ever read.
    Due to the ending of the story-I do want to see what happens and will go on to read the next one. For that reason I generously gave it three stars.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I really liked this book. Nat's character is intriguing in the sense that she doesn't know who she is, and she's afraid of that, but once she learns of who she is it more than she could have ever imagined. Wes is an interesting character too. He is ex-military, so you would expect him to be hard and tough, but he is more than that. He is also sensitive and caring, which leads to some dramatics in the adventure these two take. The magic and fantasy that this book has is well written. It isn't overpowering, it blends perfectly with the realism of a futuristic dystopia.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    *I received this uncorrected galley from Penguin First to Read*4 StarsOn the now frozen planet one city, New Vegas, manages to keep the allure of what it once was. The casinos keep people coming in packs. A blackjack dealer, Natasha Kestal, isn’t like those who come to her table: she wants to get out of town. There’s a land of myth, a paradise for people like her, which she just happens to have a map to. It’s too dangerous to travel to the Blue on her own so she hires a mercenary crew led by Ryan Wesson to help get her there safely. Everyone in the group has their secrets and agenda making every moment on the journey tense. Nat finds herself getting closer to Wes at the same time that she comes to terms with the power inside that she has been fighting all along. Can their love survive the choices she has to make?The complaint I have feels so miniscule now so my rating may get changed when I think about it a little more. It started out slow for me. Obviously it wasn’t agonizingly slow. Once it did pick up (If I had to guess I would say page 50 or so) I didn’t want to stop reading. These characters are amazing. They are flawed and a bit on the dysfunctional side just the way I like them. I was completely invested in them; even some of the minor characters. The imagery was also superb so much so that I felt that I was right there with them. Action was abundant but not overdone to the point that it was tiring. I did not want this book to end.Needless to say, I really enjoyed this novel. I wish it would have had a better first impression but I impatiently await the next installment and fully recommend this one.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Review courtesy of Dark Faerie Tales.Quick & Dirty: Wonderful post apocalyptic story with engaging characters, intense action, intriguing plot, and filled with an adorable romance. I enjoyed every minute of this book and would highly recommend it to YA fans.Opening Sentence: They were coming for her.The Review:The world has turned to ice or at least most of the ground. The ocean is full of trash and pollution. Almost all plants, animals, and any living species have ceased to exist as it once was. The planet only has one temperature and that is freezing. Now humans have flocked to some of the only surviving cities and it is survival of the fittest. Everyone now has grey eyes and brown hair, if you have any other eye color you are one of the marked. The marked are born with special powers that range from telepathic to being able to fly. It is said that they are descendants from sylph, a magical people that everyone fears. Anyone that is marked is considered dangerous and needs to be contained by the government. The world is slowly dying and the only hope is the strange rumors of the Blue. Legend says that there is still a land with blue skies and the warm sun, but no one really knows where it is. Supposedly, there is a doorway in the middle of the ocean, but the journey is full of unspeakable dangers.Natasha Kestal , more commonly known as Nat is a blackjack dealer in New Vegas. She escaped from the institution for the marked and has disguised herself to look like a normal human. She has been biding her time waiting for the right moment to leave New Vegas and try to get to the mysterious land she has heard about. She is lucky enough to stumble across a map that is suppose to lead her to “the blue” and now all she needs is someone to take her there.Ryan Wesson is ex-army and now he is a runner. Runners are illegal crews that take people wherever they want to go for a price. It’s not the most honest work, but they have to get food somehow. Wes may do some shady things, but he is also known to be very honorable. This is what leads Nat to pick Wes as her runner to get her out of New Vegas. They have a very dangerous journey ahead of them full of deceit, betrayal, and surprisingly love.The story alters between Nat and Wes’s POV. First you get to meet Nat and I absolutely adored her. She is a very strong character with a good voice and a spunky personality. She always has a comeback and is full of witty charm. She is brave and smart. She was orphaned at a young age and raised in the army to do unthinkable things. Then she was locked up in a prison for the marked. She was able to escape, but finding the Blue is her only chance at happiness. Captain Ryan Wesson is a pain, but Nat can’t help but be drawn to him. She knows that it will only end in heartbreak, but she can’t seem to stay away. Everything about her character was fun and easy to connect with. I can’t wait to read more of her story.I instantly fell in love with Wes. He is gorgeous, charming, cocky, sweet, honorable, loyal, and just an amazing character. He also has a very sad past that has lead him down a road that he’s not totally proud of. He lives a rough life and has secrets that he doesn’t care to share with anyone else. Nat piques an interest in him that he hasn’t felt in a very long time. Relationships have never worked out well for Wes and he knows that it would be no different with Nat. Their relationship is full of lots of tension, witty banter, and some really sweet moments. I loved watching their romance develop through the pages, it was done perfectly. I am really looking forward to getting to know more about Wes and his story in the next book.This was a really fun read for me. Once I picked it up, I had a hard time putting it down. There was great action and a very intriguing plot line. The setting was post apocalyptic but it had a magical touch to it as well. I loved the cast of characters in this book. There were a lot of secondary characters that I didn’t mention that played a very important part to the story as well, and I am looking forward to seeing more of them in the sequel. The writing was very captivating and the book flowed perfectly. There really wasn’t anything that I didn’t love about this book. The ending left you satisfied but still wanting a lot more. This was a very good read for me and I would highly recommend it to anyone that is a fan of YA books.Notable Scene:Nat didn’t know what to make of Ryan Wesson–whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, definitely. He looked so smug, standing at her doorway, with his hair slicked back and his collar turned up, a gun belt strapped low on his hips, his beat-up vest shrugged off his shoulders like some kind of snow cowboy, grinning as if he’d won the fireball lottery.She’d just left the casino that evening, only a few hours after closing the deal with Shakes, and while she had impressed upon him her need to leave immediately, she was still surprised at how quickly Wes had appeared.“Hey there, remember me?” His voice was low and pleasantly hoarse, sexy, she thought, just like all the rest of him. Nat shoved the thought out of her mind. He’s a runner and a con man, she reminded herself. A liar.“How could I forget?” she asked.“Ryan Wesson,” he said, offering a hand.“Like the gun or the cooking oil?”His grin broadened. “What about you, Nat? Like the insect or the princess?”FTC Advisory: Putnam Juvenile/Penguin provided me with a copy of Frozen. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I don't think I've read anything quite like this. It isn't quite your usual SciFi, or Fantasy novel. Or Urban Fantasy. All the characters are young, people don't live very long in this new dystopian world, but in this novel we have war veterans who are only 16 years old, and that's a little hard to take in. Whatever, I didn't let that really sink in, I just kept reading...The entire world is frozen, and there's a lot of poverty as well as excess spending in places like New Vegas. Even though there's tech, it's weird, because no one quite knows how to invent new tech, or fix things....or at least not many people do. New Vegas is fenced in - either they're keeping people in, or keeping things out. Just try leaving....Main character - Nat - is working in New Vegas as a dealer. She's trying to stay under the radar, because she is one of the "marked" - a person born with a mark who has special powers. She's been able to work undetected for a while, kind of biding her time until suddenly the opportunity to leave, get out of New Vegas presents itself. The whole time she's been alive, she's been trying to ignore this voice in her mind that keeps trying to tell her to do these things, not always good things. It's not always bad things, more like being guided to survive at any cost. She hires a young ex-soldier, Wes, to act as her guide to a mythical place that actually has blue skies, warmer weather, clean blue water, and is more like the old earth. No one believes this place actually exists, and yet every once in a while people try to find it. They usually come to a bad end. There are people who take advantage of those who try to leave, people who con them, people who turn them in to the government.... And Wes used to work as a soldier. He's been trying to keep a small group of other ex soldiers alive and eating, and it's tough when you don't really want to take some of the shadier jobs on offer.Frozen tells the story of how Nat and Wes end up traveling together and touches on betrayal, friendship, slavery, danger and redemption. There's a very interesting mix of "monsters" - there are beings that seem like zombies, but aren't. There is a weird wasteland that is covered with garbage - garbage that seems to have a life of it's own. There's also the very poisoned ocean, which has toxic waters, filled with barges of towering garbage mounds that seem to have mutated. It's a wonder that people can even exist in this world.I think de la Cruz and Johnston wrote an interesting novel with some very interesting characters, villians and monsters (or other beings). They touch a bit on slavery, slow starvation and some social issues without things seeming like you're reading a lecture or treatise on what's wrong with the world, and at the same time the issues in the book do make you think about waste and the ecology. There's also a lesson to be learned about bigotry and acceptance, with the way the government seemed to steer people into hating the marked by blaming everything bad on the people who were marked. The dialogue was good, the narrative was good enough to keep me reading - engaging. There didn't seem to be any of those long wordy info-dumps that can make me yawn.... Bottom line - I opened the book and read it in a 24 hour period. Lately, that's been rare for me. AND.... Though there was a budding romance with a bit of kissing, there were no over the top make out sessions. All in all, a good book for a teen, young teen, and even for an older lady like me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Goodreads Synopsis: From New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz and Michael Johnston comes this remarkable first book in a spellbinding new series about the dawn of a new kind of magic.Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature—freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows.At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called “the Blue.” They say it’s a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. More importantly, it’s a place where Nat won’t be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light.But passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson to take her there. Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. But can true love survive the lies? Fiery hearts collide in this fantastic tale of the evil men do and the awesome power within us all.My Review: As soon as I saw this book on netgalley I had to request it. I'm not really familiar with Melissa de la Cruz, have only read one of her books before, but had heard good things so I clicked it. Also the cover is pretty cool, it caught my eye. It's definitely not what I expected. I'm not totally sure if it was supposed to be sometime really in the future, but I imagined it to be so, because most of the things I'd never even heard of. Also the names were the same in the places the characters went were familiar, so that helped a little bit with the scenery. The story was exciting and fun to learn about, I didn't feel like I'd missed anything, which I shouldn't, it's a first book! The characters were interesting to learn about, and they were fun. All in all it was an awesome book that really sucked me in, and I'll definitely read more Melissa de la Cruz from now on. Thanks for reading!(Radioactivebookreviews.wordpress.com)
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I wasn't really sure what to think of this book going in, but I ended up enjoying it. There is a lot of information to get through in the first couple of chapters, but hang in there, it gets better. It was easy going from Nat and Wes’s POV. I enjoyed both of their voices. Although it's clear that they both like each other neither really lets much happen so there isn't much romance to FROZEN.I was not crazy about the ending as I wanted them to stick together, but I now get to look forward to their reunion hopefully.* This book was provided free of charge from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book stirred up magic inside of me. I would meditate on this man's stories in order to visit them in my sleep. Pure Genius.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This isn't even the right audiobook! Very frustrated that I wasted my 1 credit on the WRONG audiobook! I love the book
    itself but this is the WRONG story. Please fix this.