St. Clare's Continuation Books

Susie · Post by **Susie** » 22 Apr 2007, 17:20

I like the pamela cox ones , when I read them I didn't even know that it was written by someone else, till my mum told me years later.

jen · Post by **jen** » 22 Apr 2007, 17:30

As I've posted elsewhere, I don't like them. I thought they were stereotypical and it was like someone had picked out all the stereotypical Blyton phrases and jammed them into two books. I agree with what Moose wrote somewhere else about the St. Clare's books not being as well spaced as the MT books but even so I don't think any more books were needed - SC was complete as it was.

My biggest bugbear though is when names are changed - as in Adventurous Four - Shipwrecked. Okay so the girl's names were a bit outdated but who cares?! DOes it really make that much of a difference?!

Moose · Post by **Moose** » 22 Apr 2007, 18:38

I do wish the the SC book had been better spaced by Blyton herself - one per year, as she did with MT, would have been a good deal better and I've never understood why she used the format she did - or whether it was even intentional. But yeah, I consider only the six books that she wrote to be MT books. Which is not meant to be offensive to Cox, who at least had done her research.

Moonraker · Post by **Moonraker** » 22 Apr 2007, 19:29

Anita Bensoussane wrote:
[Tony:] ...another four one-off books were turned into the Fabulous Four!
So talking about the Beatles is not at all off-topic!

Oh Anita, I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Nicky · Post by **Nicky** » 22 Apr 2007, 20:07

well were i got mine,an oldbook bookshop with a load of new books they are counted as enid books, sold under enids name and are an offical enid book!!!
so if enid didnt write them someone needs to investigate identidy fraud!!!
overall pamela did a good job, in most cases, read carefuly and you will find fluffs.

Nicky.

Moose · Post by **Moose** » 22 Apr 2007, 20:36

I am not sure I understand .. if Enid did not write what then people need to investigate identity fraud?

SchoolStory · Post by **SchoolStory** » 23 Apr 2007, 11:21

I wasn't very fond of the additional St Clares books - they didn't quite ring true. They read like fanfiction, albeit quite good fanfiction.

The non-Blyton Blytons that I like are the additional Secret Sevens by Lallemand. To me they read like Blyton. (Although of them I only have The Seven and the Lion Hunt, TS and the Magician, and TS Strike Gold.)

Moose · Post by **Moose** » 24 Apr 2007, 21:52

hello and welcome

. I've not read the additional SS books - SS are one of the few Blytons series's that I never really warmed to

SchoolStory · Post by **SchoolStory** » 25 Apr 2007, 01:17

Well, I'm not terribly fond of them either compared to her other books. Too many characters and not enough development seems to be one of the issues! But I find them okay for a quick read.

(Thanks for the welcome

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Moose · Post by **Moose** » 25 Apr 2007, 12:38

Yeah I guess she did introduce quite a lot of new characters. I liked Lady Fizz Bentley in the last book .. that struck me as the sort of scam that one of Blyton's characters might well have pulled off

dsr · Post by **dsr** » 25 Apr 2007, 16:50

That "Fizz Bentley" trick was used by Christine Chaundler in "The Chivalrous Fifth", although it was more of a spur of the moment thing in that book.

Moose · Post by **Moose** » 25 Apr 2007, 20:11

Ah .. I guess there are no new ideas under the sun

Still it struck me as something that Blyton herself might have done tho.

jen · Post by **jen** » 25 Apr 2007, 20:45

The name Fizz just makes me think of the Tweenies!

Moose · Post by **Moose** » 07 May 2007, 19:21

hmmm yes true

. I think it was a very Blytonian idea though, to have a girl who was from a very good family disguise herself as being from a common family. After all, something similar happened with Carlotta who had to pretend that she wasn't from the background that she was from..

Kathelyne · Post by **Kathelyne** » 12 May 2007, 07:35

I liked them as boarding school books, and the 6th one I liked as 'non cannon', but as an idea of what happened after, I thought that one was actually really well done and fits in the series quite ell. I don't like the other one, its like an imposter stuck in the middle of the series. I like it as a book to read I mean, it just sticks out as if it doesn't belong, maybe the whole bringing in new characters and making them all go again thing? Which is probably an effect of it being a middle book, but It just doesn't sit well with me.
But the 6th one I loved, and thought the Fizz Bently thing was great.