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Post by zoe on Oct 7, 2008 19:30:57 GMT 1
I have just read the horse sale (CPT) and loved it as much as I did as a kid but it has left me a little flat as I am desperate to know what happened to the characters next. I don't suppose the characters crop up in another book?
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Post by haffyfan on Oct 7, 2008 20:02:11 GMT 1
No sorry, just in this one.
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Post by Claire on Oct 7, 2008 20:20:08 GMT 1
Its one of my favourite CPT books. Altho it has the usual CPT down moments I like the way it all comes together in the end. Also its quite an original plot. I feel the same as you when books come to an end and you leave the characters behind. The worst is when I have my annual read of the Noel and Henry series. You feel like you are leaving a load of friends behind
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Post by zoe on Oct 7, 2008 20:25:13 GMT 1
Oh no, I was hoping there was a sequel I hadn't heard of
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Post by beswickcollector on Oct 8, 2008 9:56:39 GMT 1
This is one of my favourite PT sisters books. I think what made it really good as a child was the characters were the sort of children you knew and went to school with. Pony books before this were usualy about wealthy children with a cook , a nanny and a governess. Enid Blyton children also came from a world alien to working class children. I think Christine PT did working class really well especialy in First Rosette, I felt I knew the young David.
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Post by zoe on Oct 8, 2008 11:09:44 GMT 1
I know what you mean, I could always relate to the poorer kids in books and I think the struggle they had to either get a pony or improve an existing one made for a more satisfying read. As a kid I was desperate to go to boarding school, which I think stemmed from reading Enid Blyton. I'm sure it wouldn't be as great as I imagined butI just loved the idea of dorms and midnight feasts.
Oh, I'm reading first rossette now, it does seem good(haven't read it before) and at least there is more than one book so I won't be moaning for a sequel!!!
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Post by Claire on Oct 8, 2008 12:24:25 GMT 1
Yes the First Rosette trilogy is also very good, although the last one is a tad depressing.
As beswickcollector says CPT was one of the few pony writers who 'did' poor kids. There were Mick and Janice in The Lost Pony & For Want of a SAddle, the children from the riding school in Riders on the March, etc, and lots of others. However altho they were well done I dont think the poor characters rang 100% true for me in the way that for example Ruth in Fly by night did. Could make for quite an interesting discussion. Possible idea for a thread?
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