Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys (page 3)

ninja

I read the nancy boys once......boy were they camp......but they always got their man......muhahahahahaha.......da ninja

dinah

I read The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew while in elementary school. Encyclopedia Brown was my favorite. I read everything I could get my hands on.

compound complex

Thank you, Dinah.

Fast forward nostalgia ... bringing innocence and wholesome thrills to our present.

It feels good ...

CoCo

dinah

Ahh yes, CoCo. Memories of long summer vacations spent lost in another world are wonderful.

inkling

I went through a phase when I was about 10 that I read every Hardy Boys
book I could find. Also a few trixie belden and Nancy drew.

Only later when I went back and read one with older eyes did I realize
how god awful campy they were. Clunky, corny dialog, predicable and
cliche plots, thin and ridiculous characters... Ack!

Well, I really enjoyed them at the time.
The joys we must lose as we grow up, eh?

[inkling]

compound complex

Hey ink,

You're correct, yet I somehow missed the fun when I was but a lad, and - well, gee whiz! - I sure like being with my new chums now. They sure are swell!

CoCo Corn

compound complex

THE WITCH TREE SYMBOL

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"He won't get away with his tricky, little scheme - no he won't!" Mrs. Tenney burst forth, scarcely able to hold back the tears, so long restrained behind the dams of her eyelids.

Nancy, though sensitive to the raw feelings of this lady of whom she actually knew very little, waited for the distraught cousin of Alpha Zinn (known to his good-for-nothing friends as Beta Ray) to elaborate upon what was surely to become the basis for yet another sinister plot, whose denouement was awaiting an unraveling by Nancy, George and Bess.

"My second cousin, twice-removed, on my mother's side - Alpha! He deals in antiques and sharp business practices. He's a thief, pure and not so simple. It goes way back to our shared childhood. Anything I had he had to have also. And if he couldn't have by honest means what he wanted, he stole. That's why my collection of porcelain dolls is gone by half! Well, that blackguard came, he saw, he took - his pieces as well as my own."

"Are you not perhaps overreacting, Mrs. Tenney? It could have been a burglar with excellent taste and an uncommon knowledge of what price these precious heirlooms might fetch at an auction house? I'm going to scour the premises for clues. It's not in my nature to draw hasty conclusions. After all, everyone knows that I am a levellheaded young detective whose ethics and methods will not be compromised."

Mrs. Tenney, demurring for a moment, acquiesced and began to chill out.

Next: the Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign!

bite me

Bought all 52 Hardy Boys books for my son whom I offered $2 per to read them and a $100 bonus if the read them all. (He didn't like reading at the time, thus the bribe) Well he did it and we had a Hardy Boys party at the end with presents and clues leading him to the final present of a safe with 100 dollar bills.

Now he's a voracious, it was the best $200 I ever spent.

Thanks for the memory CC

Hey, I loved reading as a kid, still do today. If my parents would have offered me that 'reward' or bribe I would have pretended not to like to read. BTW who's the hardy boys and nancy drew?

darkuncle29

When I was in the 3rd grade and mom was studying with the JWs we got rid of the TV. So for the next 8 years we didn't have one. So My siblings and I read or played board games. I also read alot of the societie's older pubs and the AID book. As far as kids books, I read The Three Investigators books, don't even know who wrote them. They were ok, not too cheesy.

I started reading about Greek and Norse mythology and then got into scifi books. Some star Trek novels and David Eddings and Terry Brooks.

BTW this thread gave me a rageing clue.

Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys

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