Roald Dahl is such an entertaining writer - and an easy-to-read one at that. His prose just slips down, it never feels laboured, there's never a place where it stutters and chokes. And as is expected under such circumstances, this is an extremely readable collection. Dahl's got a special gift for writing about nasty people, particularly the mildly nasty, and it's always entertaining to see how cutting all that stripped-back prose can be. There's one story, the one everyone knows, that's a particular stand-out. I'm talking about "Lamb to the Slaughter", which I've read countless times and which I never get tired of. None of the rest quite match up, and there are a few here that cut off a little early for my liking - "Beware of the Dog", for example - but even those are still fun. It's a great collection.