Posted by Laurence Monkhouse on January 09, 2008 at 08:05:27 from 82.27.21.60 user Laurence_.
In Reply to: Re: BBC Films and Ransome posted by John Lambert on January 08, 2008 at 19:27:31:
I also agree that camping on an island must seem pretty small potatoes to a generation brought up on Harry Potter and video games.
Our (just post war) generation did have alternatives to AR which equally were as stories far more imaginary. Biggles for instance, which my wife and I both read avidly (in fact both our Biggles collections were disposed of by our respective mothers, and it has been a lifetime's work collecting them again).
And if we didn't have video games we could get out into the big wide world - the neighbourhood anyway - and find games there, and later boats, untrammelled by Health and Safety.
But AR always stayed in a place on our bookshelves where he was regularly read and was untouchable by mothers. And there he still is - in the key place in my library, within a couple of feet of where I am sitting.