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teamdest posted:alright maybe someone can help me, this has been driving me mad for close to six years now, and i'm at my wit's end! I remember this story as well. The planet was named Shine because it was all shiny. The people cut their feet because they were wearing soft shipboard shoes when they landed. I think there was a scene where they find some sort of jellyfish like lifeform in a lake/river/sea and decide they can use it as lamp fuel. I came across this as a radio play. I'd estimate about 1984 to 1988. EDIT: Think this is it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374428026/ref=cm_rdp_product EDIT AGAIN: gently caress beaten by Penguin Mania by a good page or more. Serves me right for not finishing the thread before posting. Mr Darcy fucked around with this message at 19:18 on Jun 16, 2008 |
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Cross post from the White Whale Thread. ---------------- I’m trying to remember a children’s book it would have been out in the UK probably mid to late 80s at the latest. So could well have been from an earlier decade I guess There's a moderate chance it would have been a jackanory story, if not then it's the sort of book that would have been read by the teacher in primary school, roughly year 4 to year 6 in current school year dating (Was probably Lower Juniors to Upper Juniors in my 1980's CofE primary) Plot points I can remember: A child goes to a strange world and the first people they encounter are a seemingly sweet couple (man and woman, I think elderly) who lie all the time. They encourage the child to lie too. They encourage the child to tell little "white" lies. There were "little white lies", which maybe weren't that bad and also "black lies" which were a lot worse(?) The couple/whatever were trying to get the protagonist to lie to make bad things happen? Somehow the worse thing you lie about, it helps wake a monster or do something bad to the world?
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yaffle posted:Sounds like something by Enid Blyton - one of the Magic Faraway tree books maybe? I've skimmed the synopsis of the Blyton stories that might maybe work - i.e. ignore the Jolly japes posh kids and Noddy type books and I haven't come across one that feels right. Of course as she was famously somewhat prolific there's a non-zero chance I've just missed the synopsis of the right story.
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Runcible Cat posted:Rebecca's World by Terry Nation. She has to follow a map with clues to find the last GHOST tree. The couple are the National Society for the Furtherance of Bad Habits, in between the Tongue Twister Monster and the Swardlewardle creatures who breathe out laughing gas. That. That does change things a bit. Thank you.
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