Least Favourite Enid Blyton Series?

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Moonraker wrote: 26 Oct 2022, 14:34 That is a really good description! The series is still popular with the masses, it just seems to have fallen slightly out of favour on the forums!
Not with me it hasn't. I shall always bang the drum for the Secret Seven, the books are the perfect introduction to Enid's work.
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Good for you, John!
GloomyGraham wrote:Tne trouble is that all the series had a number of stinkers Yes The Secret Mountain...seemed ridiculous even ti a 7 year old
Not to me, it didn't! The Secret Mountain remains one of my favourites of the series.
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The Secret Mountain and The Secret Island are in a permanent tussle for top position as far as I'm concerned!
"Heyho for a starry night and a heathery bed!" - Jack, The Secret Island.

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The Secret Mountain is the best book in that series. It's a cracking adventure story.
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I'll probably have to re-read the likes of Secret Mountain and Killimooin at some point, to see if I enjoy them any more nowadays, as I usually leave them out of my re-reads of the Secret series.
I don't think I will enjoy them much more, though, as it's very much personal preference and I've never really been fond of those books set in Mountains, secret forests, etc. Or of the fantasy (goblins, fairies, etc) type books. Instead, I'm much fonder of the books having more familiar settings like in the Find-Outers, Secret Seven, Famous Fives.
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