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did anyone else love growing up? i just bought mog the forgetful cat on kindle, judith kerr is brill |
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Yeah, the mog from spaceballs, not that stupid cat. |
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i preferred kiki the parrot for her inherently slapstick explosions of nonsense |
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dad used to take my sister and i to the library every saturday to drop off the old books and pick up some new ones. when i was seven or eight, i found i'd read most of the books in the kid's section, and so my dad told the librarian to find a book for me. the librarian, who was seventy or eighty, took me over to a corner of the library -- i actually have a distinct visual image of the moment in my hed -- and started me on this. it's exactly the sort of thing no one will ever read, now. it has that proper old-skool flavor, 50s lingo. i distinctly remember reading one line regarding "the splitting of the atom" and even at that young age i kind of cringed at how out-of-date it sounded that aside, kiki the parrot. hilarious, genuinely. made me obsessed with parrots for a bit. i started asking my parents if we could get a parrot (did i mention i was seven?). also of note is the presence of made-up languages, with entire sentences of charming word salad that are effectively meant to be a subtitle [foreign language] enid blyton, the adventure series. not even well-known enough to have plot summaries on wikipedia, possibly gone/unavailable within a generation. |
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there are actually some truly wtf moments, in retrospect. like, the main characters -- a bunch of kids -- are trapped on an island, in a pit. somehow, they get out. a man named horace shows up with his boat. somehow, they manipulate him into getting trapped in the hole, and then steal his boat; leave him on the island, saying, "oh, it's alright, there's a bunch of canned food in the hole." later, horace's boat runs out of gas, and the petrol cans they assumed were full are only half-full, and they complain about how horace was a poor cheap idiot who didn't pay enough and got ripped off on gas they don't write kids' books like that anymore. |
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never was into enid blyton. like you say they're very 50s in lingo and outlook... she's been recently, as it's come out that plans for a commemorative blyton coin were dropped cos of her racist attitudes. golliwogs n shit aren't too cool |
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i saw that on wikipedia, lol. for the last, oh, fifteen years, i've gone about my life assuming that i'm pretty much the only one that's read The Adventure Series. in the US, this very well might be true. it's still odd to me that anyone else has heard of her at all! despite her flaws -- some of which i was aware of, even at seven -- it's good shit if you're reading it and ten years of age or less. |
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