XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.childrens, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: jf@NOSPAMmarage.demon.co.uk   
      
   X-No-Archive: yes   
      
   In message <1146565603.780122.125010@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,   
   "m.j.mooney@bradford.ac.uk"  writes   
      
   >The WWI Biggles books, are, IMHO, the only ones worth reading.   
      
   I suppose I must've started on Biggle and Worrals around 1950. One thing   
   always stuck in my mind about W E Johns's style right from the beginning   
   was that the author's characters never said anything. It was always:   
      
   ... quizzed Biggles; asked Biggles; ventured Biggles; supposed Algy;   
   joked Ginger ... and so on. I doubt if Mr Johns ever said 'said'.   
   The villanous hun, Von Stalheim (?), was often snarling, or raging,   
   spitting, or barking.   
      
   The illustrator was the one who sold Worrals to me. In the books she was   
   the demure professional virgin; on the covers she was often scampering   
   about in her underwear.   
      
   Can anyone tell me what it was that Katy did, and what Katy did next?   
      
   --   
   James Follett. Novelist. (G1LXP) http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk   
   The Silent Vulcan trilogy, starting with 'The Temple of the Winds', on BBC7   
   Sundays 1840.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)