Posted by Mike Dennis on July 04, 2006 at 15:15:30 from 84.65.100.160 user MTD.
In Reply to: Crumbs! posted by Joe Windsor on July 04, 2006 at 13:07:08:
Sorry Joe if my post seemed like a put-down, that was never the intention.
Like many who post here AR's books are something we grew up with, they are an important part of our childhoods. For many of us they have an importance that perhaps others wouldn't understand, and for me it was the freedom the characters seemed to have. Even as a child I realised that things could never be exactly as AR depicted them, but I made my own attempts but never found anyone who shared my interest at the time - sad as it may seem the characters were my friends too.
What the books mean to each of us, and our view of the characters lives cannot, to me anyway, be recreated; you have to discover them for yourself.