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Poll Question: What do you think of the series?

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LOVE IT

(13 votes, 59%)

HATE IT

(6 votes, 27.2%)

NOT BOTHERED EITHER WAY

(3 votes, 13.6%)

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Total Votes: 22
Total Voters: 22

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Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Thread Started on Jan 14, 2009, 5:53pm »

Hi folks as per the Jinny thread have started this poll to see if Jinny really is a love it or hate it thing!

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #1 on Jan 14, 2009, 8:48pm »

interesting results so far...pretty well split. I voted not bothered as I can take thgem or leave them. As I said on the other thread I don't like the fantasy ones like Night Of The Red Horse but quite like some of the normal ones like Devil To Ride and Jump For The Moon. Must reread actually as my thoughts are based on last reading them at about 13/14.

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #2 on Jan 15, 2009, 8:23pm »

Jan 15, 2009, 12:45pm, konstanze wrote:

Actually, you are quite right Haffy, they aren't all the same, i.e. bad all the way through. Some would make quite a nice read. I just got to hate Jinny more and more from book to book, and could have easily throttled her by book 4.

By the way I always thought of Shantih being a mare, now I hear, he was a stallion???

Oopsie sorry that was me :-[

I just ment the horse on the 80's covers was actually a stallion called prince Of Orange and not a mare as Shantih was supposed to be (and yes I ahve looked to see if there are any tell tale signs and no the photographer was very clever

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #3 on Jan 15, 2009, 8:27pm »

I couldn't stand the series...I think I made it as far as the third book, but found both character and plot irritating.

And the odd thing is that I LOVE Patricia Leitch's other work!! The Jinny books feel like they were written by a totally different person!

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #4 on Jan 16, 2009, 3:21am »

Im with you haffyan sum of the books are ok but outhers Oh my what rubish.

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #5 on Jan 16, 2009, 7:28am »

Again, love some of the books, want to flush Jinny's head in the toilet in others- there's a lack of consistency in her character I feel. Mostly I enjoy them, but I've learned to read them selectively, skipping the bits that were seemingly written when Patricia fried up the wrong type of mushrooms for breakfast ie. is it The Golden Horse with the stupid nativity play?
YECCH! AWful.
Love Finmory though, Ken's a bit annoying too...

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #6 on Jan 16, 2009, 10:52pm »

Yep, love them. Think I must add that I'm a fantasy reading / writing nut, so anything like this gets my attention...but I love the Scottish setting, and Ken as well. He always intrgues me.

I must say though, that I did find Jinny inconsistent as a character sometimes, but I ignore that for the sake of the stories.

With regards to stallions, my Arab boy, who came from the same breeder as Prince of Orange and is a very similar type, is nothing but a soppy date. He runs with his mares and babies, as well as geldings and old mares, and never caused trouble. However, I've lost count of the number of times I've not been able to take him to shows because of him being a stallion. Or, if we go, he can jump but not show.

Normally, I just don't tell people - it avoids all the 'wild tiger' business.

Actually, him being a chestnut arab was probably the main reason I love Jinny so much - it was a bit of wish fufillment because I read the books when he was 2 and I wanted to ride him so much!

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #7 on Jan 16, 2009, 11:47pm »

I always felt that Shantih was Patricia L's own fantasy horse, and Jinny was her way of saying that she felt she couldn't actually cope with a Shantih, and so that is why she had a hairy pony. Her real love of Scotland comes through, I have just started rereading the series, and the descriptions of Shantih and of the moors are lovely and the parts of the books I love. Yes there are also the batty bits, where certainly the author was smoking too much of whatever Ken grew in the greenhouse when the pottery failed!

I would agree that the nativity play was a prime example - YUK!
But for the other bits which get me rereading, for the characters of the farmer and Mrs Tuke, I have to say love them.
Of course, the fact that I am a stallion fan, a dyed in the wool Arab fan, and I love the moors best of any place on earth - does come into it!

Snow filly - I loved the original Coombe Farm Arabs too, (my idea of an Arab will forever be Crabbet!) I loved Prince of Orange and Hawkmoth - I'm big Count Line fan (Roland D'Orsaz etc) the temperament is unbelievable! My boy was from those lines too! He was one in a million. :'(

Haffy - some of my Jinny books have an ARab on them which is not Prince of Orange, one with a big blaze like the 'real'Shantih was supposed to have - any idea who that was?

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #8 on Jan 17, 2009, 2:43pm »

Jan 15, 2009, 8:23pm, haffyfan wrote:

the horse on the 80's covers was actually a stallion called prince Of Orange and not a mare as Shantih was supposed to be (and yes I ahve looked to see if there are any tell tale signs and no the photographer was very clever

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OK haffy thats it we are now offically NUTS! Have just been scrutinising my Jinny collection myself looking for what you so nicely put as "tell-tale signs" (was sure there was a 'sign' on one of the covers as I knew it was a boy ages before I found out it was Prince of Orange) when it just hit me that here are 2 grown 'adults' poring over the covers of childrens books trying to spot a horse's meat n 2 veg!!!

There were at least 3 horses portraying Shantih on the covers. As well as Prince of Orange there was the one kunuma was talking about (four white stockings very large blaze) on the 1st eds of he first few books and also a darker chestnut with a star on the later books. The horse on the 1st ed of Running Wild may also have been a different one or could have been the same one with the large blaze. If anyone knows their identity it would be interesting to know.

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #9 on Jan 18, 2009, 5:35pm »

I've just got around to voting - I like the Jinny books but I've had to put them on my list to buy as I haven't got them and not read them for years.

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Re: Jinny series: love it or hate it?
« Reply #10 on Jan 18, 2009, 7:37pm »

Hurrah glad the pro-Jinnys are winning!

I couldnt resist temptation and had to start reading the series. Just finished the first one and still love it but I can't deny that Jinny is an irritating character at times, especially the way she treats poor old Bramble. May do a review of it if I find the time.

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