Posted by John Lambert (via Jock) on August 24, 2007 at 10:36:02 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: AR magic (was The 'Miss Nancy' enigma) posted by Jock on August 23, 2007 at 21:22:18:
Jock,
I'm answering your post because for some reason I am unable to post my comments directly to the website. Hope you don't mind.
I agree completely with your remarks about the magic of AR. No matter how deeply you delve into his works, the more you discover Here we are, a group of adult men and women from around the world, sharing our common interest in the books of a man who died forty years years ago, and we still find them fascinating and relevant. I've often wondered how he did it. It's not only that what he says in one novel agrees with something else he mentions in another novel, but his writing is still fresh and exciting. I have exactly the same feeling I had as a child when I first pored over SA and SW in the early morning light on Christmas Day. Every time I open my copy of SA (old and worn now) I'm back in the wonderful world where "amything might happen" and usually does. The mark of a truly great children's writer is that he still fascinate adults. I'm beginning to sound like Ed Kiser now.
Cheers.
John Lambert