Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!sophie From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Query regarding author. Message-ID: <1839@mnetor.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 15:21:35 EDT Article-I.D.: mnetor.1839 Posted: Tue Aug 20 15:21:35 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 16:24:01 EDT References: <497@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 27 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? -- Sophie Quigley {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|linus|watmath}!utzoo!mnetor!sophie