You remember End Blyton; I always think her to be the best writer EVER; to just imagine all the books/series she wrote which would make a kid (well at least me) imagine about a secret island, or to actually have a secret group formed with friends (we all had a dog in it like the Secret 7 and Famous Five; remember Malik? Liza?)
Anyways; so I read (rather re-read for the 100th time) Secret Island; think it is one of my most favorite novel; its about these kids who run from their foster home to a secret island and live for some weeks/months there and she made it sound so SIMPLE and exciting that I would be like yeah I can do that!
My favorite series was actually the Secret series and I would even now at times marvel at her brilliant imagination and capacity to keep KIDS enraptured to sit and read what she wanted them to read; all about solving mysteries or finding treasures and her best part was that she gave both girls and guys equal weightage in the entire setup.
I just love all such kind of books; so I enroled myself at a library and I got a few strange and a few "oh how cute" stares from ppl while I was intently spending a lot of my time in the "Picture Fiction" and "Big Alphabet Section" segment of the library and even stranger stares when I was asked by the librarian, "for your kids?" and I said, "No, me".
Well I did pick up Secret Island, Enid Blyton; The Last Voayage, CS Lewis; Asterix series; Witches, Roald Dahl
I have always felt writing for kids is so much more difficult than writing for adults etc ... for all the obvious reasons.
And to be frank I am no fan of Harry Porter; was till Prisoner of Azkaban, now it is all commercialised; so I wait for the movies.
Life is so simple when you are a kid; hate growing up.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
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I haven't read enid blyton... so not saying much... and don't think planning to read anytime soon.. guess not a child anymore :)
so Kallu the Britney Spears song can apply to you now ... I'm not a boy But NOT a man yet!
Der Shuller (my name in HK) .. matches Shool a lot.
i read quite a bit now....but as a child never did read much....and missed out on all the enid blyton glory....she is brilliant.....whatever i have read of her......will make sure my children know all her books inside out!
Hey it seems to be the time of reading books...another friend's blog also has not one but several articles on books...its good that the wonderful habit of reading is not being forgotten.
Incidentally I just got two Enid Blyton books on my B'day...got the St. Clare series...
You may hate the fact that you've grown up and not a kid anymore but I'm sure it must be comforting to note that you still have the IQ of a 8 year old retard
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