Just read my Literature book, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar which is filled with mini stories including the stated title. I only read the titled story because it was part of my Literature homework for the school holidays and here is what I think:
Before I started reading the story, I thought it was a boring one of a guy named Henry Sugar who is interested in casinos and money, judging from the book cover (the cover I placed here was from Wikipedia which is not the one I got.) Once I started reading, I was hooked on to the story that I wanted more from it.
Henry is a good example to others who envy rich and wealthy people because these people do have their own problem like ordinary ones. He has no particular interest until he discovered a notebook written by Dr. John Cartwright in 1934 where he recorded his account on a yogi who was able to see things without opening his eyes and has the ability to concentrate on a certain object.
What makes this story interesting was that the person who wrote the "story" was a persona (I know Roald Dahl is the author of the book but it was the persona who was hired by Henry's companions to write this story out). Also, this story was written in a way that we are actually reading it as a biography. Overall the language and writing style was splendid and I can imagined the scenes of each words.
Rating: 8.9/10
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