Free Clip Art from Pixabella

Enid Blyton is Favourite British Author

Enid Blyton

As a kid I used to love reading, and Enid Blyton was alays one of my favourite authors. Strangely enough it was never the ‘Famous Five’ series that I enjoyed the most, I started with Noddy, then as I got older used to love Brer Rabbit, but as a young teenager my all time favourite Enid Blyton books were the Adventure series.

I mention all of this because Enid Blyton has just been voted best author in the UK, beating J.K. Rowling, Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien and many more.

Considering the racist controversy around some of her books like the Noddy series, and the fact so many of her stories have been edited before they were republished I’m really pleased to see her take the top number of votes, she was always my favourite author, and she wrote books for all ages of children from toddler to teenager which is something very few authors seem to manage.

You can see the complete list of top 50 British authors at the Costa Book Awards.

Rocky Horror Picture Show Remake?

Wow, the cult classic movie ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ is to be remade and they’re talking about Marilyn Manson as the kind of actor they want to audition, the idea being they want to bring Rocky into the 21st century and make the film a bit edgier and more contemporary than the 1970′s original.

I have to say I’m not really in favour of a new version, I kinda like the cheesy kitschy original, although if I had my choice I’d ditch Meatloaf from the original, I’ve never been a Meatloaf fan so he’d be no loss, but the rest of the cast made that film and I can’t see a remake replacing it.

Of course they probably don’t intend to replace the original, maybe the success of the DVD version of Rocky, and the Star Wars franchise is making the Rocky franchise greedy. Either way, I don’t think the original will ever be threatened in my heart by a new version, actually a new version would have to be VERY good to get my loyalty.