Posted by Mike Dennis on February 12, 2012 at 22:50:29 user MTD.
In Reply to: Re: Reality and the Reader (more on Peter Duck etc) posted by Woll on February 12, 2012 at 14:11:47:
PM - wanted to be about the Ds when really it struck me as about the Blackets dealing with the GA once more (covered pretty well in SD, so not work going over again.) Such plots bring in too many adults, the attraction of the books on first readings was children doing all these things for themselves without other children getting involved and causing trouble (a bit like the first reaction to the Swallows from some of the Eels!) Similarly, the amount of adult supervision or involvement in most of the books is minimal (and I seem to remember somewhere Nancy or Peggy says the Capt Flint doesn't count!)
My lack of re-reading of it is that nothing in its plotting etc made me think want to read it again, whereas WH I have re-read more than any other! Mainly for the descriptions of snow etc, and because the Ds (strangers) are accepted and involved with no hostility or suspicion.