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| April 24, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
I think that Julian got married to a young detective rather like Janet from the Secret Seven and Dick got married to Jo. Anne marries Tinker and George marries Julian then gets divorced. —Darcey A |
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| April 19, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
Anne probably became a maid or housewife. Julian is probably divorced, Dick probably married Jo and George lives in Kirrin cottage and Timmy has a litter. —Bri |
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| April 19, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
I think that Julian becomes a detective goes to police training and meets a girl called Dinah Mannering who reminds him of his cousin and marries her. Dick marries obviously the well-mannered Jo who is a secretary for the police. Anne marries Tinker and they live together with mischief. Anne is now a waitress in a restaurant. George grew up from her boyish manners but still does things boys do such as climbing and rowing. She became part of the Cambridge rowing team and now marries Wilfrid. They all end up having one child and George ends up having a daughter like her. The five and their children meet at Kirrin in their child's holidays and all solve mysteries together. —Adithi |
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| April 17, 2024: Barney Mysteries - Does anyone else prefer the Barney mysteries to the Famous Five?
Famous 5 are the best EB books. —Anonymous |
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| April 15, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
Why not Julian and Henry, Jo and Dick, George and Alf (James?) Anne and Wilfrid. —George and Timmy Kirrin |
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| April 15, 2024: Famous Five - Berta And George
Kate, I think compared to Henry or Berta George looks like a girl. Or maybe it's because George in her dressing gown didn't look like a girl. George was also holding Sally the poodle that's probably why. —George and Timmy Kirrin |
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| April 15, 2024: Adventure Series - Adventures come to them v Adventures seekers
Lots of EB's books are different like The Famous Five and The Adventure series just come to adventure, and Secret 7 is like they really look for adventure. —George and Timmy Kirrin |
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| April 15, 2024: Famous Five - What are your views on Jo?
Arka, I Quite agree with your comments on George, even though I'm mad on George. She gets stupid when she's with people that is also like her (Jo, Henry, etc;) but since we are talking about Jo I think Jo is really fun, and since Timmy licked her in Five Fall Into Adventure, I trust and like Jo, because I trust Timmy. Haha. —George and Timmy Kirrin |
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| April 15, 2024: Famous Five - What happened to Edgar Stick?
Probably went to "the home for bad kids" like what Jo said. Serves him right! —George and Timmy Kirrin |
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| April 15, 2024: Unlisted - Enid Blyton in general - Who would you cast in a Blyton adaption?
Emily Blunt as Aunt Fanny, Shayle Simons as Julian Kallan Holley as Anne. —George and Timmy Kirrin |
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| April 12, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
I think Ju will marry Berta and become a politician. Anne marries Henry [finiston farm] and she becomes a cook. Dick marries Jo and he becomes a pilot and takes the five out exploring. George finally admits she is a girl and marries Wilfrid. The five [plus there partners ] meet at kirrin in there children's school holidays. They also sometimes go to kirrin island. George ends up having a girl just like her. Anne has two girls. Dick has a boy and a girl. Ju has two boys and 1 girl. George has a girl just like her and 1 boy. —adithi |
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| April 6, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
I don't get it. Julian and Henrietta? How on Earth?? I seriously cannot think of this as a good option. —Arka |
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Daisy says: Everyone is entitled to say their own options, not all agree but so be it. |
| April 5, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
I expect Julian becomes a scientist and becomes as tall and strong as Mr Penruthlan and marries Henrietta and Dick marries Jo and Dick becomes a doctor and George marries Alf the fisherboy and they live in a house near London. And Anne marries Jock and lives in the farmhouse in Middlecombe Woods and Timmy and Biddy have five puppies and one is named Timmy and given to George's daughter, Elizabeth Allen. —Joanne |
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| March 26, 2024: St Clare's - Malory Towers vs. St Clare's
I think I prefer St Clare's because it is quite interesting. Gwendoline is obviously Alison, but Alison does not have a spiteful nature. Pat and Isabel are actually Darrell or Felicity, Bobby and Janet are Alicia and Betty I guess this is about it, however St Clare's has two head girls, Fizz, Pauline, Claudine, Carlotta and many others that only stayed for a term. —Lily Wong |
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| March 9, 2024: Naughtiest Girl - Would Elizabeth and Julian have married?
I can see Arabella growing up to be Angela Favorleigh of St Clare's. Elizabeth and Julian might have got married but how long would they have been able to put up with each other? I found his treatment in the book thoroughly nasty- especially William's unpleasant strictures to a boy of about eleven! —Mark Taha |
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| March 8, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
I think Julian marries Marybelle and becomes a detective, Dick marries Jo and they move to Smuggler's Top and Dick becomes a policeman and George marries Sooty and they live on Kirrin Island and Anne marries Richard Kent and opens a tea-shop. —Anika |
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| March 4, 2024: Mystery (Five Find-Outer) Series - Bets and Fatty - wedding bells?
Bets: "The Savoy! Nothing but the best! " Fatty: "I'm sorry but Julian Kirrin bagged the Ritz." —Mia |
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| March 3, 2024: Barney Mysteries - Does anyone else prefer the Barney mysteries to the Famous Five?
I love the 'Adventure' books too, but I'd have to re-read them to see whether I'd put them above Barney or below. After these two would come the Five Find Outers, then 'Secret Of' and FF and Secret Seven last. I enjoy some of them but the Famous Five and Secret Seven series are just not as enjoyable for me as the other series. —Mike |
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| March 1, 2024: Mystery (Five Find-Outer) Series - Bets and Fatty - wedding bells?
I hope Fatty will spend plenty for a good hotel suite for the wedding night. —Mia |
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PC Goon says: Knowing Fatty, it will be a suite at the Savoy! |
| February 29, 2024: St Clare's - Malory Towers vs. St Clare's
I prefer St Clare's because of Angela. —Mary Wong |
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| February 28, 2024: Famous Five - Whatever Happened to the Famous Five?
I believe that julian becomes a dci for the dorset police and marries a nice houswife, dick becomes an explorer and marries jo, anne marries a successful lawyer. They buy red towers house and renovate it and finally george lives in kirrin cottage and timmy has 2 litters. —sidney |
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| February 26, 2024: Barney Mysteries - Does anyone else prefer the Barney mysteries to the Famous Five?
The Barney mysteries appear to have been aimed at slightly older children and also have the sophisticated and poignant story arc of Barney's search for his father. The resolution to his search at the end of the fourth book is one of the few occasions in an Enid Blyton Book where the emotion really gets to me. They're lesser known, presumably as there were fewer of them and sadly are out of print (outrageous!) whereas other series' aren't! I think that the best of FF - e. G. Smuggler's Top are a match for them but I agree with you that overall they're better stories. I'd actually vote for the 'Adventure Books' in first place, then Barney R, FF, FFO, 'Secret of' and Secret 7. —Ian |
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| February 25, 2024: Barney Mysteries - Does anyone else prefer the Barney mysteries to the Famous Five?
The Famous Five and the Five Find Outers are probably the most well-known of Blyton's kids solving mysteries books. I love the Five Find Outers, but I've never been a big fan of the Famous Five even as a kid. I much prefer the Barney mysteries and think Barney and Snubby are much more interesting characters than any of the Famous Five or even the Secret Seven. —Mike |
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| February 25, 2024: St Clare's - Malory Towers vs. St Clare's
I love both books. As a kid Carlotta and Alicia were my favorite characters. I wanted to be as acrobatic as Carlotta and as clever as Alicia, but recently when I re-read both series, I would have to say that Claudine is my favorite character both series included. Darrell Rivers probably had the most growth in the whole series, but Claudine has to be the funniest and most charming character in the series. —Mike |
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| February 24, 2024: Mystery (Five Find-Outer) Series - Bets and Fatty - wedding bells?
Another point of view. If you read the Find Outers books from the time Eunice appears in them, you can detect that Fatty and Bets relationship changes. Whilst Fatty and Eunice at first are at loggerheads, they do appear to me as a more equal couple. Eunice doesn't take all this hero worship of Fatty that Bets and the others, to a lesser degree, give him; which is far more healthy in a relationship, than idolisation from one side. I am not saying that Fatty and Eunice would end up as a couple, but someone not so starstruck as Bets, would work better long term. They would always be friends, as would all the Find Outers. —Steinway |
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