Biggles Distracts a Law Student
Dec. 7th, 2022 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ermingardenIt's happened – I've jumped aboard the Biggles bandwagon! After hearing about these books for a while from what felt like half the people I know on DW, I finally took a peek at rachelmanija's Fic in a Box stories canon-blind on the 4th, and immediately said: "Oh help, I took a look at your Biggles fics and I think I’m going to have to read these books now!" She very kindly advised me to start with Biggles Flies East.
That was the afternoon of December 4. As of the afternoon of December 7, I have read not only Biggles Flies East but also Biggles Buries a Hatchet, Biggles – Foreign Legionnaire, Biggles Follows On, Biggles & Co., Biggles – Secret Agent, and Biggles Looks Back. That's an average of one Biggles book every ten hours – leaving aside the fact that I've also been tearing through the Biggles fics on AO3. All this during a time period when I need to be studying for final exams (my first exam is on Monday) and, theoretically, sleeping.
I never read Biggles as a kid, but they're exactly the sort of books I would have loved at a certain age, and I like them a great deal even now. There's a lot of unexpected depth. My favorite so far has to be Biggles & Co. – it has a great kind of rollicking humor in parts, without veering over into farce. I love the scene where [minor spoilers]
Anyway, back to studying – but consider me Team Biggles!
rachelmanija's Fic in a Box stories canon-blind on the 4th, and immediately said: "Oh help, I took a look at your Biggles fics and I think I’m going to have to read these books now!" She very kindly advised me to start with Biggles Flies East. That was the afternoon of December 4. As of the afternoon of December 7, I have read not only Biggles Flies East but also Biggles Buries a Hatchet, Biggles – Foreign Legionnaire, Biggles Follows On, Biggles & Co., Biggles – Secret Agent, and Biggles Looks Back. That's an average of one Biggles book every ten hours – leaving aside the fact that I've also been tearing through the Biggles fics on AO3. All this during a time period when I need to be studying for final exams (my first exam is on Monday) and, theoretically, sleeping.
I never read Biggles as a kid, but they're exactly the sort of books I would have loved at a certain age, and I like them a great deal even now. There's a lot of unexpected depth. My favorite so far has to be Biggles & Co. – it has a great kind of rollicking humor in parts, without veering over into farce. I love the scene where [minor spoilers]
Biggles warns Ginger about the German guard by singing to him – it's both hilarious and extremely clever.
Anyway, back to studying – but consider me Team Biggles!
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