What Do You Think Of Famous Five Books?

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I like them. Not read one for many years but I like the adventure of them. Scary though!

What are Famous Five Books?

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I remember having some of the 1970's TV series on VHS which might still be hiding somewhere.

I liked them a lot as a kid, they were a specialist interest.

My granddad got a dog which was a b***h. I lived with him and he let me name her.

I called her Kimmy cos I didn't know if she was tomboy enough to be called Timmy.

It was one of the very few fictional stories I loved as kid, read (partially) all the books (don't own them though).

I remember renting some very old audio cassette tapes at my local library (Five Have Plenty of Fun & Five Run Away Together (the later tapes of Run Away Together were faulty) that precisely narrated the exact writing of the books, and they lasted several hours!

I also once owned all the adventures in much shorter durations (just over an hour) on audio cassette in the early 2000's, and even a tape featuring the Famous Five in made up adventures (termed "Five Have a Puzzling Time and other stories" I believe) and the latter was the first that I ever bought.

As of today I now have all of the original 1978 TV series on DVD box set, but I not the 1990's tv series version though (Five on a Treasure Island is the only one I have)

I loved Timmy in the 1970's TV series as he was a beautiful border collie.

Read pretty much all of them as a kid, if I remember. Famous Five, Secret Seven, the Adventure series. Pretty much anything that fell into the category of "Book about a bunch of kids having an adventure, that Blyton wrote in a week".