The award for funniest line (possibly intentional) goes to this: "Dahl had an idyllic childhood until the age of 3[....]" Well, you're usually in the clear by then!
And here's a well done paragraph (the last - sorry to give away the finale):
The endings of Dahl’s stories are almost always surprising, even when we know the twist is coming. This talent, it turns out, applied equally to the author’s own life. In a hospital, surrounded by family, Dahl reassured everyone, sweetly, that he wasn’t afraid of death. “It’s just that I will miss you all so much,” he said—the perfect final words. Then, as everyone sat quietly around him, a nurse pricked him with a needle, and he said his actual last words: “Ow, fuck!”
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