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.
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.
I have to hand it to the Chinese, the opening show for the 2008 Olympic games was spectacular, the colours, acrobatics, and lights were so incredibly impressive. The fireworks were bigger than big and I can only imagine how many millions of dollars it cost to put on this show.
Wouldn’t it have been great to watch the show in the stadium instead of just on TV? Mind you everything I’ve read about air pollution in China makes me glad I was at home watching it from the comfort of the couch.
But I do think China should be congratulated on getting the stadium finished in time, I mean the last games in Athens were touch and go right up to the opening ceremony but China has been able to build their infrastructure without those problems.
Now I can’t wait to see what the athletes do, I wonder if we’ll see many world records this year, and I wonder if they’ll mostly be split second improvements like we’ve had for the last few years or if any athlete will be able to shave a bit more time off records. Wouldn’t it be great to see a 100m sprinter break the world record by another half second or more?
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August 20, 2008 5:59 pm | 
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