Just to give my own tuppence worth on The God Delusion and Dawkins (sorry Isadora I didn't see your reply when I last looked) it's not actually speculation or personal opinion at all. It points out the hundreds of blatant inconsistincies and untruths (yes untruths) in many aspects of organised religion. It's not just his 'personal take' on things. There's more 'truth' in what he says than you'll ever find in the bible, assuming you can find a bible that hasn't been re-written five billion times in the first place by whatever religion wanted to make their own rules before you even got to read the thing.

/rant off

I loved the Famous Five..

I also loved the 5 Find Outers - there was some high comedy in those books...

Even those Beams, I loved them

  Hiya Gawjuss .. you watching Dawkins?

yay.. getting us back into books

You lost me at the first bit.  x

Evelyn .......i loved St Clairs, Malory Towers, Mystery of, Naughtiest girl in the school, The Secrest island etc.

Loved them all .......every Saturday my mum took me and my sister to town ...........we bought a book each - read them by Sunday and swapped. Wishing Chair, Faraway Tree, Mr Gallianos Circus .............the list is endless.

I hVE TEAD SOME TO MY GRANDSON (AND KIDS) but they seem to prefer Roald Dahl .......I guess time moves on.

I remember my oldest son who is dyslexic (and a reluctant reader) trying to read Famous Five ............30 seconds in he was 'what are hols?' - it was a lost cause.

There's a point Prom, I've allways believed that that's just stories distorted down the years and who's here to prove them

I like the fact that Enid Blyton was a terrible mother and horrible to her children whilst writing all her books.

It was the kiss that knocked you wasn't it

No Dawkins tonight?

oh oh 'the secret seven', must buy them for my nephew.

She was - that is undeniable. But as a child I loved her books and still do.

Hi Prom

If all  he is doing is dissing organised religion then believe me I will be right behind him.
I think I need to read the book TBH to make an informed judgement.

So i learned. Her biography showed different. Also the lessons in her books were good in a lot of ways in teaching children, and also very bad Still i grew up with them, and i don't think it effected me that much...

I rest my case. 

has anyone mentioned Mallory towers yet? i loved Mallory towers

    Evelyn  x

Yes, i loved them. Enid Blyton books ruled when i was growing up. I loved Elizabeth Allen and the gang from Naughtiest Girl, and how they had a Judge and Jury system for a weekly meeting

Me too - and The Secret Seven.
And The Famous Five books.

First book I ever read all by myself 

Rest on this  


x

Awwww I loved that series.... and the Chalet School

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Way back there ^^^^^

I was sooo gutted when i finished all of the Mallory towers books i started going round my friends house at lunchtime to use her typewritter .....to .....write the sequel

I never would tell her what i was doing, but in my head Daryl (was it Daryl, was living on and doing just what i was wanting her to do) hahahaha. mental

Keep up Gyps

sorry peeps, i just skipped to the last page and saw you were talking kids books

Yep and how she started off such a naughty girl but ended up to be the school heroine . So funny and so moralistic ....................somehow though it sort of shaped your life! It was only when I read them years later that I realised how snobby and elitist it was. Couldn't have been further removed from my very working class childhood but .....................................I loved them. I guess it was sort of aspirational to a kid living in a two up two down with an outside toilet and no bathroom.

When I was a kid I read the famous five stuff like everyone else but got bored of them. Instead I started reading loads of sci fi books with big words in them that I didn't understand 

Daryl  was great - I love the way she lost her temper about stuff - made her human.

Oh definitely Soozy -- it was the best form of escapism! I spent a lot of time in hospital as a child and probably read all of them over and over again.
I bloody hated Elizabeth Allen

She went on to do great things you know

Yes - when she pushed poor Saklly and she fell off of the piano stool. Sally became very ill ..............(actually it was really appendicitis) Darrel felt so guilty but fortunately her father was a gifted surgeon who operated and made Sally all better!

It sometimes worries me all the trivia that is stored in my head!!

sooz ... that reminded me of the What Katy Did books

and don't even get me started on Ballet Shoes

I would not be surprised.

I LOVE it when Darrell loses her temper and delivers a few hard slaps. She does it once a book. I have them all an occasionally when visiting my mum I have been known to re read them. I am supposed to be reading 'alone in Berlin' by Hans Fallada at the moment but keep listening to 'a history of the world in 100 objects' first then I fall asleep.

Try living in a flat with no bathroom and the outside loo down the yard

I LOVED What Katy did etc and I loved Ballet Shoes.

Did anyone ever read Flowers in the attic. (Then the whole Virginia Andrews set)  some were repetitive but i loved the original, and  My sweet Audrina, is still one of my favs today. Another one i loved when younger.