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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Query regarding author.
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Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 15:21:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 20 15:21:35 1985
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In article <497@linus.UUCP> cv@linus.UUCP (Chris J. Valas) writes:
>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?
>
>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.

Hmmm, I used to love Enid Blyton's stuff too when I was a child.  I have 
heard something about those books being banned in some libraries in Sweden
because they were considered worthless.   I remember them as being quite
racist and sexist, but apart from that pretty ok.  What's wrong with them?

I think Dune is pretty racist and sexist too.  Why is it better than Enid
Blyton?
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Sophie Quigley
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