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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

LMAO!! Well said..!

Everything that's being said makes sense though. Too few lecturers/teachers are (or are capable of) encouraging individual thought about the stuff. Heaven forbid you disagree with something the literati take at and have took at face value for the better part of a century. Tis gospel. Only the foolish would see otherwise... Evil or Very Mad

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Grace · Joined: 28 May 2006 Posts: 302 Location: Bristol

*groans* Lunch break over, I have to go back to class... Rolling Eyes

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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

I love irony... Razz

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Futre4 · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject:

Going back to the famous 5 and secret 7 , I liked the adventure series , not as well know as the former but atmospheric and very exciting (at least at the time) indeed Im convinced I could read them now , even despite the fact they were heavily sexist : - "You girls sit down and let us men do the important stuff", and all they always seemed to eat slabs of boiled pork and lashings and lashings of cream cheese and crusty farmhouse bread, never a soggy sandwich or a pot noodle. And whenever they passed a farm they simply called in and got a free breakfast from the friendly couple ....ahhh they were the days.
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Lizzy · Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject:

I was always more into the secret seven and as my 7 year old son enjoys Five and Seven (though he prefers Five) I am getting to re-read them all. The political incorrectness is fantastic. I groaned when I heard that they were re printing them with Aunt Franny Rolling Eyes

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Selik · Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1524 Location: South Shields

I have a great example actually, of how people consider Fantasy a lesser genre than the mainstream.
When I did my A-Levels, we were given a list of books and a list of questions to go with them, from which we had to choose.
I looked at them and didn't have any of the books, nor was I that interested in getting any of them, so I asked if I could choose my own and create my own question.
I was allowed but as soon as the tutor found that my choice was within the fantasy genre, she suddenly wanted to read the chosen books to find out if they were 'proper' literature?

Proper???? What the hell is proper literature?
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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

*puts on best posh accent*

Dickens and Shakespeare darling! Razz

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Selik · Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Posts: 1524 Location: South Shields

Hey! I like Shakespeare, lol....... darling Wink

In the end I used The Hobbit and The Druid of Shannara. Can't remember what the question was though Embarassed

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Drizzt · Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 1081 Location: Easington, UK

Can't imagine what it could have been with those choices..!! Very Happy

Hmmm... maybe something about characters having things forced upon them or dealing with slightly odd siutations...

Damn, you get two of my fav books and I get Talking Heads by Alan Bennett...
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