Posted by Peter Ceresole on September 11, 2003 at 21:56:49 from 80.177.22.49 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: Survey Problem-QBASIC answer posted by John Nichols on September 11, 2003 at 19:24:00:
Yes it is a good story, I have just been reading Ordinary Familes set in Pin Mill - has any one else read it as well.
By Arnot Roberston, isn't it? Yes, I read it about 45 years ago. I remember it being very good, and while being as different as it's possible to be from AR's books, it has a rermarkably vivid description of a respectable but poor life on the river in the '30s which complements the descriptions of "everyday life" in SW. I enjoyed that aspect of both books a lot. But, as I said, it's about a different world, the main obvious difference being that it is explicitly based round the sexual awakening of the main character, and is about love and betrayal and the start of adult pain. Not quite Sinbad and the Ship's Baby.