Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl is wonderful. Unlike many devotees, I wasn't familar with his work as a child. Sure I had seen Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (how I envied Gene Wilder), but at the time I wasn't aware of the greatness that was Roald Dahl. No my first tryst with Dahl was when I read 'My Uncle Oswald'. Here's why you should read this book immediately! :

Oswald Hendryks Cornelius is a successful womanizer, whose motto is never to sleep with the same woman twice. He is a connoisseur of wine, a bon vivant, a collector of spider silk ties, scorpions and walking-sticks, a lover of opera, an expert on Chinese porcelain, and described as the greatest fornicator of all time.

Uncle Oswald is, and remains, my style icon and role model :)