FIVE RUN AWAY TOGETHER by Enid Blyton
Now the third volume of Famous five. I don't think this book made up to most of my expectations well At least the name isn't The Five Have An Another Adventure. When I saw the title I expected some really cool action-packed story where George and Timmy kick everyone's butt and all of them running away from the police or some baddies.
The story begins when Julian, Dick and Anne arrive in Kirrin Cottage to stay with George for the holidays. Their happiness is spoiled when Aunt Fanny falls ill and has to leave with Uncle Quentin to be treated in a far-off hospital. They have to stay with the Sticks.
The Sticks and the four children come to hate each other. The Five start bulling Edgar (the Stick's son) and Tinker the dog too. ( No wonder they get in trouble so many time the Karma of all the Bulling)
Things got really bad. Slap-up meals are only made possible by stealing the food Mrs Stick has made for her own family, The Sticks threaten to poison Timmy ( Although after many threatenings only one successful though non-fatal attempt was held )
This made them "run away" from Kirrin cottage and go to Kirrin Island and live there. Where they find a cave and a shipwreck
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| What are you hiding, Island |
With the number of times, the famous got in trouble and came in contact with several bad guys, I'm starting to feel their parents don't really care about them.
Of course, they start pranking them to scare them away from the island, which is kinda fun to read. The discovery of a young girl's toys and clothes point that they are kidnappers. And you know what happens next they find the girl and hand over the Sticks to the police and come back for another adventure.
I'm not sure whether if this book was really good or not, but it did seem boring at times although there were some hilarious scenes
"They're in that room where we found the treasure last year! That's where they're camping out! What noises shall we make?"
"I'll be a cow," said Dick. "I can moo awfully like a cow. I'll be a cow."
"I'll be a sheep," said Julian. "George, you be a horse. You can whinny and harrumph just like a horse. Dick, you begin!"
So Dick began. Hidden behind a rocky pillar, he opened his mouth and mooed dolefully, like a cow in pain. At once the echoes took up the mooing, magnified it, sent it along all the underground passages, till it seemed as if a thousand cows had wandered there and were mooing together."Moo—oo—oo—OOOOOOOO, ooo—oo—MOOOOOOO!"The Sticks listened in amazement and fright at the sudden awful noise.
"What is it, Ma?" said Edgar, almost in tears. Stinker crouched at the back of the cave, terrified. "It's cows," said Mr Stick, amazed. "Then there's cows. Can't you hear the moos? But how did cows get to be here?""Nonsense!" said Mrs Stick, recovering herself a little. "Cows down these caves! You're mad! You'll be telling me there's sheep next!"
It was funny that she should have said that, for Julian chose that moment to begin baaing like a flock of sheep. His one long, bleating "baa-baa-aa-aa" was taken up by the echoes at once, and it seemed suddenly as if hundreds of poor lost sheep were baa-ing their way down the dungeons!
Mr Stick jumped to his feet, as white as a sheet. "Well, if it isn't sheep now!" he said. "What's up? What's in these "ere dungeons? I never did like them."
"Baa-aa-AAAAAAAAAAP went the mournful bleats all round and about. And then George started her whinnying and neighing, just like an impatient horse. The little girl tossed her head in the darkness and harrumphed exactly like a horse and then she stamped with her foot, and at once the echoes stamped too, sending the whinnying and neighing and stamping into Sticks" cave twenty times louder than George had made them.
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Mr Stick went to the door of the room they were in and shouted loudly. "Get out, you! Clear out! Whoever you are!"
George giggled. Then she shouted out in a very deep, hoarse voice. "BE-WARE!" And the echoes thundered out all round."WARE! 'WARE! "WARE-ARE-ARE!"
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