Re: AR influence - JKR and Pullman


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Posted by Adam Quinan on January 16, 2009 at 17:27:58 user Adam.

In Reply to: AR influence - JKR and Pullman posted by Jock on January 16, 2009 at 12:39:24:

From an interview published on Philip Pullman's website:
What books did you like when you were young?

Well, for one thing, I liked books I wasn't supposed to read - books for adults. I didn't always understand them, but I liked the feeling that I was sharing grown-up things.

I also loved comics. There was a comic called the Eagle, which pretty well every British boy and girl of my age used to read. There was a space pilot called Dan Dare and this great enemy the Mekon, who was green, and who had a tiny body and a huge great bald head, and who sat on a little saucer that floated in mid-air. I loved Superman and Batman comics too.

Among the 'proper' books I loved, there are some that I still read. One is Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. Another is the funniest children's book ever written, Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding. And there were all the Moomin books by Tove Jansson; and another book I remember was a novel called A Hundred Million Francs, by the French author Paul Berna.
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One more book: Erich Kästner's marvellous Emil and the Detectives.

Apart from the Moomin books which I only dabbled in a little, I read and enjoyed all of the ones (including the adult books and comics) he mentions. I see he doesn't mention Stalky or Kipling which were also part of my upbringing, perhaps that is why I haven't written a best selling series of books.



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