Posted by Phil Winterbourne on March 17, 1999 at 14:12:45:
In Reply to: Re: "In the wake of the Teasel" posted by steve on February 16, 1999 at 08:52:27:
You coment:
"big six or coot club..personally they are far and away my favs.. and the stories and the sites are very "traceable""
caught my eye.
I wonder if you can expand on this.
I always found that 'Swallows & Amazons' was the quintsiential work, with my.... I'm not sure what? not 'liking' as I like WDMTGS as much as any... reducing as we get further from The Lake.
I'm not making sense I know. I think what I am trying to gfet across is that I measure all the books in their Swallows & Amozonsness, that is how simmilar are they to the first book. This is in terms of characters, plot line and location.
So, while I love the Coot Club and the Harwich/secret water books they are, to me, not quite 'real' Swallows and Amazons books.
Do you have some local links with these locations or is it something else that draws you to them?