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Originally Posted by issybird
I’ve read One’s Company and News from Tartary, both excellent; I think Tartary in particular is one of the classics of the genre. The last time I looked, they were the only two of his titles available as ebooks; I’ve always meant to dig up his Brazil book and Maillart’s account of the Tartary trip, but I strongly prefer not to read paper.
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Yes, I prefer ebooks now. But people still give me paper ones.
I thought you might like Tartary, but I hadn't imagined you'd read it. It goes to show that famousness and sales might be unrelated to quality.
From 2007 by Clive James (a good writer IMO)
I'd be interested to read more of Peter Fleming, but never seen any.
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I'm not that keen on anthropomorphic animals. Read the Redwall series if you want to annoy yourself with that. Redwall would work fine with people. Not sure Wind In the Willows would. Maybe all of the Narnia books except the first (TLTW&TW) could have worked without anthropomorphic animals. Was it purely because of childhood "Boxen" or was it just a case of the kitchen sink in the 1st book?
Watership Down maybe works better than Redwall. I tried the Duncton Wood series (moles) and don't know why I bought more than one. OTOH I have all of Wheel of Time, but lost interest somewhat during the 5th book and never finished the 1st one Sanderson wrote.
Disney annoys me (not the only reason) by sticking in anthropomorphic animals (and even objects) in the animation that are not even in the original work. I liked Disney till I was about 11, though aspects always annoyed. They annoyed me even more when I read the original works. They are a blot.