The Enid Blyton Society

Julie2owlsdene wrote:Pete says - perhaps the book should carry a rider on the front cover like 'The views and interpretations in this personal anecdotage about Enid Blyton are solely the opinions of the author')

I think that's a good idea. In large black letters too.

Isn't the title long enough already? Any more writing on the cover and it will look like the first page.

Julie2owlsdene wrote:
Pete says: As we have seen even Enid is now under scrutiny for hidden meanings and prophetic utterences in her work.

That's what I disagree with. I don't think there was any hidden meanings in Enid's work. She was just a good children's author. End of....

I agree with you Julie. I do feel sometimes that a book does show hidden facets of an authors mind, subconciously, but I never feel that Enid was trying to actually give us some hidden meaning. To her, the story was always paramount.

Robert Houghton wrote:

Julie2owlsdene wrote:
Pete says: As we have seen even Enid is now under scrutiny for hidden meanings and prophetic utterences in her work.

That's what I disagree with. I don't think there was any hidden meanings in Enid's work. She was just a good children's author. End of....

I agree with you Julie. I do feel sometimes that a book does show hidden facets of an authors mind, subconciously, but I never feel that Enid was trying to actually give us some hidden meaning. To her, the story was always paramount.

I'm in total agreement with Julie and Rob here.

Just a thought, I was wondering how many threads do we have here now where Stephen's book is being discussed?

Moonraker wrote:Just a thought, I was wondering how many threads do we have here now where Stephen's book is being discussed?

Perhaps that could be a question in Eddie's quiz for July!!

Robert Houghton wrote:

Moonraker wrote:Just a thought, I was wondering how many threads do we have here now where Stephen's book is being discussed?

Perhaps that could be a question in Eddie's quiz for July!!

Good suggestion, Rob!

I'd better start counting then. I'm determined to get at least one of Eddie's numerical questions right at some stage.