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Five Get into a Fix (The Famous Five #17)

Enid Blyton

Paperback | Pages: 250 pages

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Title	:	Five Get into a Fix (The Famous Five #17)
Author	:	Enid Blyton
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 250 pages
Published	:	2001 by Hodder Children's Books (first published January 1st 1958)
Categories	:	Childrens. Adventure. Mystery. Fiction

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I'm going to tear this book a new orifice. My tongue will be in my cheek - this book just seems to be a particularly fine example of Blyton's worst habits. Bear with me. Apologies to Enid Blyton but I've read 30+ of her books and she's been dead 47 years, so I doubt it will worry her.

I've read a lot of Enid Blyton, most of it when I was 10. Recently I've been reading the books to my daughter, Celyn. This is one of the ones we have on audiobook. It's set in Wales and not helped by the fact that none of the voice actors even come close to the Welsh accents they're attempting. Many sound Pakistani.

To be fair this book was probably written in a couple of weeks. Enid Blyton is the author of 762 books!

Also note that the stories are a product of their time, racist and sexist in equal measure.

Dick famously says to Georgina "it's really time you gave up thinking you're as good as a boy" and that does seem to sum up the ethos of the books.

Our intrepid children are at Julian's parents' house over Christmas and develop nasty coughs ... so of course the parents send them off to a remote Welsh farmhouse ... where they ... go skiing. Because when your children (who seem to range in age from perhaps 10 to 13 years of age) are sick at Christmas you naturally send them off into the wilds by themselves.

Some of the Famous Five series have a marginal degree of realism. By book 17 Blyton appears to be struggling for ideas. This book is far closer to a Scooby Doo episode than the earlier volumes in terms of how it hangs together.



This book centres around the illicit mining of "a strange metal". This phrase is repeated over and over. "A strange metal". It's never named.

Here are some things to bear in mind about the "strange metal".

i) It is worth 100 times its weight in gold. So at today's prices that's about $3,500,000 a kilo. A handful of it, weighing the same as a decent sized bag of sugar, is worth millions of dollars / pounds.



ii) It is ridiculously magnetic. Having some far below a hill means that cars and bicycles are pulled towards the ground with such force that they become hard to drive/cycle.



iii) It causes mysterious fogs and lights.




Now, perhaps it's just me, but I think that people would have a keen interest in a metal that's worth millions of dollars per handful. I further think that such a metal would have a name. And moreover, if its presence was betrayed by subtle signs like EXTREME MAGNETISM, STRANGE LIGHTS and FOG, then people might put two and two together and start digging long before they construct a frikken house on top of the deposit then walk away and leave the house for decades...


Anyway, nobody does. It's left to our strange cast of illiterate Welsh/Pakistani peasant girls and gruff shepherds to aid the fabulous five in unravelling this profound mystery.

I particularly like how the cunning thieves are using an underground river to float away the "strange metal" they have mined. The stuff is worth millions per handful and they are making off with regular barge-loads of it. We're starting to talk sums here that dwarf the gross national product!

Fortunately it's all sorted out in the end thanks to a Welshman's ability to shout very loudly and the power of a small pack of dogs to overpower / intimidate a middle-sized pack of organised criminals engaged in incredibly lucrative illegal activity. Yay! Go goodies!

In short then, this is the lowest point in the series so far, remarkable only for the fact that no gypsies were maligned within its pages.


Edit: I should give a shout out for the ridiculous cover on this edition. The Famous Five look like James Bonds skiing down the Alps with machine-gun toting baddies on their trail... these are four posh pre-teens on a Welsh hill in the 1940s/50s... and the book spends all of two pages talking about skiing.


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Original Title:	Five Get into a Fix
ISBN:	0340796316 (ISBN13: 9780340796313)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Famous Five #17, Fünf Freunde Hörspiele #9
Characters:	George Kirrin (Famous Five), Dick Kirrin, Tinker, Julian (Famous Five)

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Back to the rereads because at this point in time, I need my childhood escapism books.



Enid, you've done it again, a corker of an adventure. This was a dark tale. There was sleuthing and snow. There was mystery and marvel. There was intrigue and ingenuity There was chaos and confusion There was a dog...called DaveSuppers and snacks and food and frolics and lunch and lunch and lunch and more lunch. Ah...Enid...the heady excitement of another fantastic Famous Five fiasco...thank you. Great illustrations especially the one where the man has his shadow on the wrong way around. My

... reading with my 10 year old daughter...Oh, but we loved this one! Little Aily... so cute, and the story quite adventurous.

I loved this as a kid and it's still one of my faves - a snowy adventure with the Five, which is a nice change from endless Summer and sunshine. Don't worry though - they still manage to have lots of good food courtesy of a nice farmer's mother, a wooden cabin in the middle of nowhere, snowy frolics and underground caves. Oh, and a ragamuffin child and a trapped (mildly deranged) nice old lady. Timmy and his doggy 'friends' (kind of: one bites him) save the day. Hurrah!

I'm going to tear this book a new orifice. My tongue will be in my cheek - this book just seems to be a particularly fine example of Blyton's worst habits. Bear with me. Apologies to Enid Blyton but I've read 30+ of her books and she's been dead 47 years, so I doubt it will worry her.I've read a lot of Enid Blyton, most of it when I was 10. Recently I've been reading the books to my daughter, Celyn. This is one of the ones we have on audiobook. It's set in Wales and not helped by the fact that

This one was pretty great. Intrigue, high stakes, sinister plots, spooky old houses, secret underground passages, dog attacks, dog rescues, mysterious noises and lights at night, bizarre unexplained magnetism, tobogganing... you name it.The only problem with it really is... Well, you know that episode of The Big Bang Theory where they realise Indiana Jones doesn't really affect the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark at all? This book is a bit like that. If you removed the Famous Five from this