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Post by exmoorfan on Apr 4, 2008 9:19:08 GMT 1
Not having read this series before, I found them easy to read but as you all say they are over dramatic and you can't help wondering if they should keep ponies at all..!!!!!!!!
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Post by fizz on Apr 4, 2008 17:12:37 GMT 1
I didn't join in as I gave my book to Oxfam some time ago. However I was interested by a comment someone made obliquely about horses/ponies with brain tumours. It comes up in another book..was it ..I wanted a Pony, where Augusta got Daybreak cheap in the market and that he had been misdiagnosed. Does any one know if the sisters had a first hand experience of such a tragedy?
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Post by Claire on Apr 4, 2008 19:40:44 GMT 1
Re. brain tumours, I think kunuma mentioned this first. I am sure there are comments about brain tumours in other PT books too, but can't recall which ones off hand....anyone? Not sure if it happened to them in real life however. Going back to haffyfans comments that CPT puts more emphasis on adventure than character, well it is true in this series certainly, however she managed to portray some excellent characters in some other books such as I Rode A Winner, The Horse Sale, David and Pat series, and Riders From Afar. I think her most successful books (in terms of literary value) were the ones where she concentrated more on character and less on mysteries and adventure. It does make me wonder once again if publishers were leaning on her to make her books more 'exciting' in the same way that we know now that Josephine was persuaded to phase out the older characters in the Moor series and bring in new ones. Saying that tho, her non-pony books are quite adventurous and even some of her older books, ie. Ride by Night, We Rode to the Sea are adventures (tho better than BPI) Unfortunately this series is probably the lowlight of her career
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Post by darkhorse on Apr 5, 2008 14:51:28 GMT 1
I didn't actually read the book but I can remember the series quite well as I read them not so long ago. I agree with everyone that it wasn't Chritstine's best. I do love her normally...especially the David and Pat series...but in this one there was just too much crammed into each book. But to be fair they were still very readable
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Post by Claire on Apr 6, 2008 20:13:32 GMT 1
Anyone else read the book/s...seahorse did you manage to read it and if so what did you think?
BTW in case anyone has missed it there is a poll for this on a separate thread, so far it seems to be classed as 'average'
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Post by seahorse on Apr 6, 2008 21:43:55 GMT 1
Hi yes have read it am not that impressed, like some others think, would you let these people look after your animals lol Also the brain tumour thing annoys me its very rare. Had to have a two year put down a few years ago, which had one, a case I still feel guity about. C P-t writes as others have mentioned as if they are normal. But on the plus side an easy read am tempted to do the others now
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Post by kunuma on Apr 6, 2008 23:04:14 GMT 1
Yes, the PT's seem to suggest that if a pony shakes it's head a lot, then it's probably got a brain tumour - I have a feeling not only was it suggested for Daybreak, but there are at least a couple of others - wasn't there a suggestion in the David and Pat series? (poss Tornado!) Don't think they had much too do with Arabs!! ;D The time to worry with them is when they don't shake their heads!LOL
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Post by cally on Apr 7, 2008 5:58:14 GMT 1
I generally prefer Josephine's books to Christine's, but having said that, 2 of my favourite pony books are by CP-T: 'A Day to go Hunting' (even tho' I don't like hunting) and 'The Horse Sale', which I think work so well because the stories are compressed in time and the characterisations are really dense. They are the type of books you really really want to read in one sitting (or lying down).
May I suggest that one of the above CP-T books be considered for the next Book Club thingy, to help take away the taste of the BPI series?
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Post by fizz on Apr 7, 2008 16:09:21 GMT 1
One of my managers at work had to have a horse PTS due to a brain tumour and the neurosurgery ward I was on 18 months ago was full of humans who had them.
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Post by seahorse on Apr 7, 2008 17:23:25 GMT 1
Am not saying that they dont happen, but people blame lot of horse problems on them. Worked as a stud groom for many years. Its very differcult to prescrib in horse due to the scans invovled. Know of a few cases where after PM there was no tumour there Artheritis in a horses neck can cause the same symptons.
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Post by trixiepony on Apr 14, 2008 1:17:05 GMT 1
I have this one in one off those 3 books in one that publishers sum times bring out it has strange riders at black pony inn, mystery at black pony inn and secrets at black pony inn. There a nice anufe read but Im not a fan, of the black pony inn storys.
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Post by garej on Apr 18, 2008 19:33:42 GMT 1
Also the brain tumour thing annoys me its very rare. Had to have a two year put down a few years ago, which had one, a case I still feel guity about. C P-t writes as others have mentioned as if they are normal. Diana also mentioned brain tumours in one of her books. In "I Wanted a Pony" it transpires that Daybreak was originally put into auction, because he couldnt stop headshaking. The vet thought that it was the start of a brain tumour. But unlike Christine, Daybreak didnt have a brain tumour, instead the shaking was caused by badly fitting tack.
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Post by Buster on Jul 20, 2008 14:54:29 GMT 1
Hey well I have read the whole series and I loved it. Sticking to this book I do agree that the plot is very eventful, sometimes it left me just wanting everything to be better. The charecters seemed to be a bit dramatic as in the 'cried' everything, but this was mainly Lisa, and I think it fitted her charecter well as she was like that. Harriet seemed sensible but a little gloomy, and I like Bens charecter. I dont think any emotional attatment was formed to their horses, and the horses them selves didnt have much charecter. I loved Bronco/Prince but hes not in this book, simply because he reminds me of my own liver chestnut arab, and because he has charecter and determination. I do love these books though.
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