least favourite?

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

Which is your least favourite Marlow book, and why?

Comments

[owl]

I like FL a lot too. I definitely wouldn't do without it.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Would you really opt to do without Attic Term (which by me has way too much Story in it to do without, even if neither Ginty nor Patrick show at their best), though?

I mean, it's not that I actively wish to do without FL. It's just that if you lined up all the Marlow books and I had to pick one, that would be it.

[blonde222.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't do without FL. I love the scene where they are all gathered in the old playroom filling out forms for the Festival, and I also love the whole story about Lawrie and Ellen Holroyd. It always makes a nice change to see Lawrie doing something well and not just being daft.

If I had to ditch one it would either be 1) the Thuggery 2) Marlows & Traitor or 3) Ready Made Family.

[carmine-rose.livejournal.com]

I must admit, I think that if I had to excise one from the series, it'd be [i]Thuggery[/i] - not because I don't like it, but purely because I think it affects the other books the least. The story is the most disconnected from the rest, both in feel and in content, as far as I'm concerned. If it were removed, I don't feel it wouldn't really leave a gap in the "necessary" information.

I'd never ditch Ready-Made Family though - I wondered for years where Kay's family had come from in Cricket Term, so it was brilliant to finally find out!

[tabouli.livejournal.com]

Ready-Made Family is my favorite non-school book! The audacity of the situation AF puts her characters and the skill with which she handles it is wonderful.