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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.
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The book I''m currently reading, which is "This Is How You Lose the Time War"", by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone mentions in the novel
Travel Light, by Naomi Mitchison (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Mitchison)
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Literary critic Geoffrey Sadler stated of Mitchison's historical fiction: "On the basis of her early writings, she is unquestionably one of the great historical novelists."
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https://www.npr.org/2014/01/01/25838...s-travel-light
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Mitchison and Tolkien were good friends, and Mitchison was among the first readers of The Lord of the Rings before it was published (Travel Light was published in 1952, Lord of the Rings in 1954).
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That Mitchison's life and works should have been so unfairly relegated to secret history drove home my feeling of books as points of divergence to alternate timelines; that having read The Hobbit rather than Travel Light at that fragile, formative moment of being a child in Lebanon standing at a crossroads of languages, religions and literary traditions nudged me into a different life. Who might I have been if I had met Halla Bearsbairn before Bilbo Baggins? How different might my attitude toward dragons have been if I'd met Uggi before Smaug?
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There is a thing great in early Disney works imho: the rotoscope animations; the anti-Disney to me is Ralph Bakshi, hope you watched some of his animated (rotoscope there, also) movies; IMHO again the anti-anti-Disney would greatly be Hayao Miyazaki
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*an errata corrige: Jovanotti's travel was started from Patagonia, not Brazil, the year's book is 1998, not 1993.