Site of the week
Archive: Used Bookdealer
From this morning’s Technorati report I was surprised to find that this weblog is Aortal’s site of the week.
This weblog was originally a category of my personal journal. Then I established it as a separate weblog. When I found that I wasn’t posting regularly I blended it back into my personal pages. Discovering after the fact that a few people had linked to it I restored it to its separate status a couple of months ago.
My thanks to those of you who have linked to these pages. I think they are fairly dull but as long as there are readers I’ll try to find something to say.
Thanks,
Richard
Feel free to share your feelings about Site of the week. Please stick to the theme of the entry. Disagreement is fine. Homophobia, racism, and kindred expressions of hatred will be deleted.
This site is one of my hobbies. I genuinely enjoy hearing from people and hate moderating or killing comments. Forthright disagreement is fine as long as it is civil.
My thanks,
Richard
1 · Posted by: tony bannister on May 7, 2004 11:08 AM
I thought I might submit this for your website of the week.
uncle-tv.com is dedicated to keeping alive the series of 'Uncle' books
written by J.P.Martin and is also about my attempts to develop them into
an animated film.
The books are a riot of nonsense and invention. Uncle is an elephant —
although he could just as well have been anything else— who is
fabulously rich and rides about on a traction engine. His house is
surrounded by a moat and includes one hundred skyscrapers. There are
haunted towers and a shop where a bicycle costs a half-penny and another
in which a broken mouse-trap is priced at five hundred pounds. Transport
is by water chute, Iift and switchback railway. Uncle and his friends, a
very odd lot, have a perpetual feud with the Badfort Crowd and there are
exciting battles conducted in a most unconventional way and with no
permanent casualties.
Intriguingly one publisher rejected the books on the grounds that they
were amoral and said Uncle was “a fascist” whereas The Listener
reviewing the first book said “Uncle is a savage attack on a capitalist
society.”
The author, a clergyman, originally wrote the stories in the 1930's for
his own children and they were eventually published in the 1960's. Sadly
they are now out of print.
The books were illustrated by the then little known Quentin Blake who is
now, of course, a very popular author and illustrator of children?s
books. In fact the price of second hand copies of the books is quite
high because of the illustrations.
Hope you enjoy the site.
Best Wishes
Tony Bannister