Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site linus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!cv From: cv@linus.UUCP (Chris J. Valas) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Query regarding author. Message-ID: <497@linus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:41:11 EDT Article-I.D.: linus.497 Posted: Thu Aug 15 11:41:11 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 22:37:36 EDT Reply-To: cv@linus.UUCP (Chris J. Valas) Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA Lines: 27 -=- In article <751@asgb.UUCP> gupta@asgb.UUCP (Yogesh K Gupta) writes: >I think I read books by an author named "Enid Blayton" (or Blyton) when >I was a kid. One of the titles that comes to mind is "Tuppenny, Fifo & >Jinks" (It was a tale with fairies and witches and gnomes and goblins ...). >The author also wrote some juvenile mysteries with kids as detectives >(the Secret Seven series, the Famous Five series etc). I may be confusing >two authors here, but I do not think I am. The author is probably British. >Does any of the above ring a bell, or is my mind going? >-- >Yogesh Gupta No, you are still relatively sane. I read some of the Famous Five series when I was a kid, living in England. The name was Enid Blyton. I was rooting around in my parent's basement a few years ago and came across a few of these books. What crap! I wish I had just spent my time on multiple re-readings of Lord of the Rings and Dune. Still, it was ok stuff at the time. Chris J. Valas {decvax,utzoo,philabs,security,allegra,genrad}!linus!cv -=- Turning over new leaves since 1966. -=-