Famous Five 'Adult' Books!

[Moonraker]

Oh dear I had hoped we had heard the last of these "books".

Me too. We might consider them to be rubbish, yet they have generated no less than 48 pages of posts...

[Rob Houghton]

That's because rubbish always sparks more interest and debate than anything positive.

You only have to look at the headlines on the front of any newspapers. As a nation we are obsessed with bad news!

[pete9012S]

It was interesting to get into Bruno's mind in the interview - he seemed to realise at the beginning at least the potential risk involved at releasing books like these.

[Julie2owlsdene]

I listened for the first 2 mins, then had to close it down. Just not interested in the books at all.

[Courtenay]

I'm not interested in "Bruno Vincent aka Enid Blyton" either, thanks. However well-meaning he may be, I've tried several of the books and cannot get past the first few pages. They are just completely bland, rambling, uninteresting and totally unfunny — and unrecognisable as anything to do with Enid Blyton's original characters and stories. Surely one of the most basic and obvious rules of writing a good parody is that for a parody to be funny, it has to in some way resemble the original??

Mind you, now I think about it, the "adult" FF books don't seem to be nearly as ubiquitous (I like that word) in shops now as they were a year or so ago. At one stage they seemed to be just about everywhere, on prominent display in every bookshop, newsagents, gift shop and anywhere else that thought it could sell them. Now I hardly ever see them, or if I do, they're just squeezed onto the shelves among other books. Which suggests they haven't taken off nearly as well as the publishers must have hoped. Maybe once the novelty factor wore off, people started to realise that the books themselves actually weren't worth reading... (Meanwhile, the "adult" Ladybird books are still much more common and presumably selling well — the difference being that at least some of them are genuinely clever and funny.)

[Eddie Muir]

The Famous Five 'Adult' books have a few uses: firelighters, door stops and draught excluders are three that spring to mind.

[Courtenay]

Or mulch.

[Eddie Muir]

Indeed!

[John Pickup]

The Famous Five 'Adult' books have a few uses: firelighters, door stops and draught excluders are three that spring to mind.

They can also be used as toilet paper by the children on the Secret Island, thereby eliminating another problem we've discussed lately.

[Nigel D]

I’m waiting for Five On Love Island

[Eddie Muir]

The Famous Five 'Adult' books have a few uses: firelighters, door stops and draught excluders are three that spring to mind.

They can also be used as toilet paper by the children on the Secret Island, thereby eliminating another problem we've discussed lately.

I’m waiting for Five On Love Island

Great posts, John and Nigel.

[Rob Houghton]

Yeah - the adult Famous Fives are definitely past their sell-by, I think! You can always tell, when books start appearing in 'The Works' at cheap prices. I saw a load of them last week in our local Works.

[Eddie Muir]

There are lots in my local charity shops too.

[Courtenay]

They can also be used as toilet paper by the children on the Secret Island, thereby eliminating another problem we've discussed lately.

Oh yes!

I’m waiting for Five On Love Island

The mind boggles

[Wolfgang]

It seems they try to give things a new angle:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Enid-Blyton- ... 2312193140