Madeleine's Book Log - ongoing

[Madeleine]

On 02/01/2022 at 5:20 PM, Raven said:

 

Not seen that; is this an offer directly from the British Library?

 

No you should be able to get it from a bookshop, or online.

[Madeleine]

18 hours ago, willoyd said:

 

I have to say I pretty much gave up with this series: far too many of them were exactly that - two dimensional.  Wooden characters, unlikely plots and, as you say, dated.  It seemed to me that there was a pretty good reason why they hadn't been republished!

I don't mind the dated thing too much, it's inevitable given that some of them were written 70 or 80 years ago. Most of the others I've read have been enjoyable.

[willoyd]

2 hours ago, Madeleine said:

I don't mind the dated thing too much, it's inevitable given that some of them were written 70 or 80 years ago. Most of the others I've read have been enjoyable.

Yes, a lot of my reading is of older books, and strictly speaking most of them will inevitably be  recognisably from the time they were written.  However, for me, 'dated' means a bit more than that, something along the lines of 'has not worn well' - i.e. they were probably OK at the time but don't read well now.  There's a fine line between fashionably 'retro', and out of date, and one person's retro will be another person's dated (and vice-versa!).