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Post by haffyfan on Feb 10, 2008 13:17:05 GMT 1
Has anyone read any of her books - what did you think?
I read Show jumping summer first some time ago and loved it, although the 'new horse' didn't play the role the blurb portrayed it would, then the others, which I have read in last week or so, have been a bit of a let down if I'm honest.
Grey Arrow was okay bar the strange relationship/friendship going on between a young man and a school girl (and the spanking episode......oh..er...missus... I couldn't help but think - I'm sure it wasn't intended as such though ;D )
Pink Pony was a nice read but nothing special if you know what I mean as was The Nameless Pony (who hardly came into the story so why it was the title I am unsure) and I just didn't get Because Of A Pony....very strange but if anyone wants to leave me their house because I've got a pony and say hello to them please do..........
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Post by Claire on Feb 10, 2008 14:08:33 GMT 1
Ive read showjumping summer, pink pony and grey arrow. I would say they are all OK, showjumping summer if I can remember it rightly was prob the best. Still got to read the other 2 but after your analysis maybe not that desperate! OMG yes agree with you on the grey arrow front. (But was she a schoolgirl I thought she had left school and was about 17?) That guy is insufferable and what about the spanking session?! Makes you wonder what Catherine Carey got up to when she wasn't riding! I thought it was a bit mills and boonish tho with a fesity girl having all the spirit taken out of her by this arrogant masterful man. Not really in keeping with the image I have of pony book heroines. Actually reminds me of the Margery and Guy series by Lorna Hill. Have you read these? Guy too is a bossy prig who makes my blood boil!
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Post by haffyfan on Feb 10, 2008 18:41:49 GMT 1
I'm sure she was at school still at least at start of story but I could be getting mixed up as the style is very similiar in all. I haven't read the Lorna Hill ones (I have my eye on a couple on ebay at min). I wasn't 100% if they were pony stories or just had ponies in them?
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Post by Claire on Feb 10, 2008 21:45:48 GMT 1
Maybe she was still at school at the start cant remember very well as my memory is not the best and I got rid of the book as my feminist principles were too overcome by it! ;D The lorna hill books are pony books probably in the same sense that the monica edwards ones are. In the Patience series and the Marjories series they are always on horse but they are more sort of holiday adventure type books. I actually prefer the ballet series tho I am not particularly interested in ballet I like the characters better. And there are often a few horses cropping up in them, especially in Dancing Peel and the first in the Wells series. But as with the character of Guy, they are somewhat spoilt for me by the authors liking for masterly bossy men who think women should be at home doing the housework!
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Post by Claire on Feb 11, 2008 21:18:55 GMT 1
Just been thinking about spanking (as you do ;D ) and I'm sure there was also a spanking episode in one of the Lorna Hills. If not, definitely in one pony book I have read. Anyone who comes across it let me know! I quite fancy writing an essay entitled 'sado-masochism in pony books'
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Post by tinuviel on Feb 23, 2008 10:18:45 GMT 1
She was definitly at school...i just re-read it and he drove her to school one day. Yes that was a weird relationship.
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Post by Claire on Feb 23, 2008 18:07:51 GMT 1
I got up to worse when I was at school! ;D ;D
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Post by garej on Feb 23, 2008 19:51:48 GMT 1
I got up to worse when I was at school! ;D ;D So did I. I havent read any of her books, though.
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