Every really voracious reader now between 30 and 60 had exactly that heavy Blyton addiction

Basically, once a child has read one Secret Seven mystery, you might as well let the addiction run its ruinous course. The addiction to Blyton will come to an end, sooner or later; the addiction to reading she inculcates will go on forever.

NVDL: Enid Blyton is a great way to get your child addicted to reading.

clipped from www.independent.co.uk Some children's books bear re-reading in adulthood. That absolutely isn't the case with Enid Blyton. One of the very startling experiences of growing up as a reader is picking up one of her books in adulthood, and trying to read it at all. I well remember, at six or seven, reading literally dozens of her novels - whole series, Secret Seven and Five Find-Outers and even Malory Towers and St Clare's - and being absolutely unable to put them down until they were finished. I could not imagine any book ever being as utterly exciting as those books were. Probably every single reading experience ever embarked upon since then is an attempt to capture exactly that utter absorption, that wish that the world would just go away first experienced over The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat.