| June 27, 2009 – mark says: On a cornish holiday a few years ago we camped on Goonhilly Downs, moorland on the Lizard peninsula, and I took Five go down to the sea, mystery moor and off to camp. Read a few of them at night by torchlight while the kids and wife slept. Listening to the wind and the sound of waves crashing in some distant cove nearby made these books seem much more exciting. I felt like creeping out my tent in search of spook trains or looking out for some light shining out to sea by smugglers or wreckers. |
| August 26, 2009 – Josefine says: Oh, that's sound really nice. I want to do that too. But every time I'm away (and take the book's with me) I don't have any time for it. It would be nice to travel with the Famous Five - it's dumb they are only fictional. |
| August 27, 2009 – Alicia says: When I was 10 I had to go for this awful summer camp and I was upset because I'd be missing two weeks worth Card Captor Sakura episodes. So I took my FF books along with me and tuned everyone out while reading them - they kept me sane. |
| August 28, 2009 – rogoz says: The Famous Five aren't really fictional - they're modelled on people you've probably met already. |
| November 5, 2010 – michelle says: In the five goes to mystery moor what happened to the brothers who built the rails? |
| November 9, 2010 – rogoz says: The Bartle brothers built the railway line and were all made to disappear by the Gypsies. It's not clear what really happened to them - only rumours. |
| January 8, 2011 – Sofia Aggelidou says: Five days ago,I went for holidays with my family and with another family! We went to a mountain near Xanthi. There was only snow there! We were surpised because in Greece and especially in towns as small as Serres (I live there) we don't see so much snow. And in my town it's not snowing every year! Do you remember ''Five Get Into A Fix'' right? OK! The place we were lining was EXACTLY like that in the book! We were living at wooden houses,up in a mountain,with a lot of snow,and in front of the houses there was a slope perfect to slide with the sledge! But we didn't have a sledge,so my father and the other father of the other family lend big black trush bags! Me, my twin sisters, the 2 boys and their sister from the other family, started to slide and we couldn't stop! Of course it was tiring to climb again! If you don't believe me I have taken photos,so if somebody wants proof, he or she can tell me where to send the photos! Huh? |
| July 9, 2012 – Marriafatima says: I simply loved the book Five Go To Smuggler's Top, especially the strange house Smuggler's Top with the rabbit warren hill. |
| July 10, 2012 – Farwa says: I love "Five Get Into Trouble" and "Five Go On A Hike together". It's so thrilling to read about getting trapped in Owl's Dene, and getting a half-term and hiking and doing the other Famous Fivish things. |
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Fatty says: Two of my favourites, too, Farwa! |
| June 20, 2017 – Avan N. Cooverji says: Chain of Famous Five Titles. There is a code of honour even amongst thieves. Once there were five notorious thieves who lived ON FINNISTON FARM. When they were not planning a robbery, they would GO OFF IN A CARAVAN and OFF TO CAMP. Once they even went DOWN TO THE SEA to HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME. They were always hoping to HAVE A MYSTERY TO SOLVE. They would have A HIKE TOGETHER and sometimes FALL INTO ADVENTURE and sometimes GET INTO TROUBLE as well. Once they happened to GET INTO A FIX when they went TO DEMON'S ROCKS. This was because the place was the hiding den of pirates who used it as their SMUGGLER'S TOP. The pirates chased them away as they did not want anybody to know about their SECRET TRAIL. So the robbers they thought it best to RUN AWAY TOGETHER. Then they made their way to KIRRIN ISLAND for a few days of peace and quiet but soon they became restless and wanted to GO ADVENTURING AGAIN. This time they had read about some loot that was hidden at TREASURE ISLAND. They went by boat and on their way they made grand plans of what they would do , how they would go to the fine resort at BILLYCOCK HILL and have PLENTY OF FUN once they found the stolen goods. They tied the boat at MYSTERY MOOR and entered the island. They searched every nook and cranny and at last found the jewels which were priceless. This aroused their greed and as greed has no bounds, each robber wanted the most for himself. So when two of the robbers went to catch fish for food, the other two left behind decided that when their companions returned , they would kill them and it would be easy as it would be a sudden and unexpected attack. Now the two who had gone fishing also had the same evil thoughts, so they brought back fish mixed up with poison which they knew that their companions would eat and die. Each pair of men wanted the other dead so as to usurp their share. When they returned with the fish, as soon as their backs were turned, the two men who had stayed behind, drove their knives deep into them and killed them. Then they happily began to eat the fish not dreaming that it was already poisoned. No sooner had they eaten two or three morsels, that they felt dizzy and breathless and both of them also died. In this way , each caused the others's death, and a code of honour that exists even amongst thieves was broken and they never were TOGETHER AGAIN. |
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Daisy says: I was enjoying that until the killing started. |
| June 20, 2017 – Avan N. Cooverji says: The killings are to show that though thieves are reprehensible people, still they too have a code of honour amongst themselves but when greed overtakes them to such an extent that they do not stay as 'thick as thieves' any longer, then evil begets evil and all is lost. |
| January 2, 2019 – Michael says: In terms of atmosphere and location, hands down it has to be Five Get Into Trouble. Owl's Dene was the creepiest setting Blyton ever created, at least in the Five series. They were trapped in a mansion with criminals (one them an escaped con in a hidden room) and I loved their twilight bike ride to the mansion after Dick was kidnapped. Smuggler's Top was a sensational setting too with fog swirling about, the deadly marshes, and a house full of secret passages, and finally, Five Go Down To The Sea. Everything about it, the farm with the coast not far away and the dark stormy night Julian and Dick venture into. I also loved the way she painted the scenery in Five Have A Mystery To Solve. Sounded so fresh and beautiful. |
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Buster says: The harbour that Enid describes in Mystery To Solve, is a real harbour, which is maybe one of the reasons why the scenery she painted was so beautiful. |
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