Re: Unrecovered again

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:44:33 +0100,
Richard Gadsden <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Mike Andrews wrote:

I got Melody the first 3, as a boxed set, for bedtime reading; she's
pretty much reacted with an "Enh ...", and I'm not really _impressed_:
they're OK, but not on the same level as, e.g., Ormondroyd's _David &
the Phoenix_

Is that actually good? I saw it recommended by David Weber, which put
me off.

It's a kid book. Read it with that in mind, and you may well wind up
enjoying it. There's some rather nice writing in it I_M_HO.

Be aware, however, that I only just this month, after more than 40
years of trying, managed to get involved in C. S. Lewis' Narnia
books. I'm almost certainly an outlier on the who-reads-what and
who-enjoys-what graphs.

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Politics and religion are just like software and hardware.
They all suck, the documentation is provably incorrect, and all
the vendors tell lies.
-- Andrew Dalgleish, in the Monastery
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