Enid Blyton Appreciation Thread (1 Viewer)

[jonah]

I had "Biggles gets his men" and I liked the name but never read it.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

can't see Jonah's post

 

[Mormon Nailer]

Biggles = deadly

as are WILLARD PRICE books

The Willard Price ones were the two ubermensch brothers travelling the world getting into scrapes right?

 

[Lili Marlene]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...on-inspires-Blue-Peter-Book-Award-winner.html

guhhh

"It's funny because I lived in an amazing place yet I was constantly wishing I lived in England so I could get lost in pea-soup fog and sleep in heather beds on the moors and encounter smugglers, just like those characters did.

"I suppose Dead Man's Cove is a tip of the hat to the kind of books I loved."

Mormon Nailer, what say you to that?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

I remember praying in mass that god would send me on an adventure. I also wanted to be an orphan being raised a wicked aunt and uncle so that I could run away from them and live in a forest

 

[jonah]

I remember my "adventures" as a child, and they were all a bit odd. I used to play this one game on my own in the fields where I was a child soldier crawling around for hours in the long grass.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

There was a field near my house as a kid which we used to crawl around in when the grass was long thereby creating a maze-like system of pathways covering the entire field. The farmer didn't like us being in there and sometimes chased us out. Magical.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

The Willard Price ones were the two ubermensch brothers travelling the world getting into scrapes right?

Hal and Roger.

Amazon Adventure, South Sea Adventure etc

 

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was watching these a few weeks ago,nothing came near the famous five back when i was a youth although i did immensely enjoy the land of far beyond,bought one of the older versions on amazon last year,had all the drawings that so traumatised me years back.I must read it again soon.

 

[St. Fechin]

This was one of my favorites:

Has Blyton ever been accused of antisemitisim?

 

[nooleen]

Hal and Roger.

Amazon Adventure, South Sea Adventure etc

volcano adventure
"the boys go exploring in the pacific, studying volcanoes with a young scientist. they are let down into a boiling crater in a steel and glass ball...they investigate an active crater on the sea bed...they help rescue the inhabitants of doomed tin can island. but the scientist's strange behaviour only adds to their dangers..."

i picked it up from a bargain bin a few years ago because it had 'volcano' in the title but haven't read it

 

[nooleen]

and changing tinker to traveler is one thing, but it was a dirty tinker.

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