Re: The Big Five. Was The Big Six. Was; AR's 'silly books' ?


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Posted by andyb on March 11, 2009 at 10:30:43 user beardbiter.

In Reply to: Re: The Big Five. Was The Big Six. Was; AR's 'silly books' ? posted by andyb on March 10, 2009 at 15:12:09:

Well that seems to have stopped the conversation! To expand a little, the scenes from Norfolk life, especially the eel-man, are wonderfully drawn as is the whole business of fitting out the D o G and hiding in the Wilderness. (I very much agree with the Sanctuary thesis). It's also good that the story focuses on the boys with their different background from most of AR's other young characters. I do find it rather difficult, however, to tell them apart!
The problem with the plot is not ,in my eyes, the implausibility of the finger of suspicion pointing at the D o Gs, as has been suggested on Tarboard in the past. That process of scapegoating seems only too plausible. What seems more implausible is that the boys weren't simply 'taken off the river' until things calmed down. I think my problem is that the plot has a certain' one thing after another' quality that I find it difficult to sustain an interest in over frequent re-readings. In the same way, although WDMGS is one of AR's finest, I don't read it very often because I know what is going to happen next, whereas in say, P&M or S&A the denouements don't seem to matter so much.



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