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That’s always a safe diagnosis to make!

Intuition is the most important skill for diagnosing these. And that is acquired through experience.

Yes.

Just use it as an excuse to take a holiday in Dublin.

It would be odd to have any academic books in a primary school (age 5-10) library, but my partner, who is a primary English specialist, has had to fight for the inclusion of graphic novels and the like over just "classics" in school libraries, especially when she was working in a private school...

You and pretty much everyone else. Thing was, Doyle was pompous and self-important, and wanted to be a Dostoevsky (or more accurately, a Kipling) when all he was actually good at was writing (as he saw it) popular tripe. I have read all the Challenger stories, which have some interesting SF...

Enjoyment of reading needs to be instilled at a young age, before any formal study of literature. Otherwise it will always be a chore.

Superheroes are fantasy, not science fiction. It’s not supposed to be realistic.

One advantage of an English education is I didn’t have to study English after the age of 16, so pretty much all fiction I read after that was for pleasure.

Get a magic elven sword, and play a goblin. That way it would glow all the time.

Necromancer blow all their spell slots on rubbish skeletons. Running on empty.

He is about the right age.

Yes. (Pulls off monkey mask).

Marids are fluid.

The thing about comparing Dostoevsky and Carter is they are writing for completely different different reasons, and they are read for completely different reasons. Dostoevsky wrote because he had something to say. Carter wrote to entertain. Both writers succeed in what they set out to do...

This.

I was reminded of Fantasy Island recently. By the (poor) second series of Nine Perfect Strangers, which seemed to be changing into it, with Nichole Kidman as the new Mr Rourke, and Mark Strong as Lex Luthor.

I saw The Fantastic Journey, but I was very young at the time and haven't seen it since. I remember Roddy McDowell, and people jumping into a cloud at the end of the Episode. When I saw Sliders, it kind of reminded me of this.

Next, do Star Wars as a family drama.

Well, it’s not like good aligned clerics and paladins don’t have a strong motivation to dust any undead!