The Hardy Boys And Open Carry

[Echo40]

I really miss classic novels like Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and Conan the Barbarian. I often wish that they would be revived, but then I think of what would become of them if modern sensibilities were to be forcibly introduced, **coughARCHIEcough** and think it better that they remain as they are.

 

[jem102]

I think my favorite was Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster. Had a giant screw on the front. When I was in elementary school, I just loved the Box Car Children our teacher read to us every day. I just couldn't wait to find to what was going to happen next. Like many of you, when I was sent to bed, I would pull the covers up and read with my Boy Scout flashlight.

long long ago. SF VET

I remember that one and can see the cover in my mind's eye. One of the others I really liked, but can't now for the life of me remember the title, is the one where they find a clear capsule and the alien life inside starts to die but Tom drills a hole in it, puts in dry ice and the life forms revive.

 

[djohns6]

Ya'll remember the Brains Benton Mystery Series ?

 

[Rustyt1953]

The mods are on it! They made short work of the OP.

 

[Onomea]

I loved the Hardy Boys. When I ran out of those I read my big sister's Nancy Drews. When I ran out of those, I read her Cherry Ames nurse stories, but that was kinda scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Thank goodness for Sherlock Holmes!

I see the OP was scammer who tried to get on our good side by bringing up the Hardy Boys... (Dastardly! Is nothing sacred to these crooks!)

 

[s&wchad]

Just a heads up about the OP; he turned out to be a scammer.

Hardy Boys as a CC/SD topic?

SCAM ALERT!!! Gadshot

He made a number of garbage posts (see his history) and then contacted at lease one member with a lowball sale offer. We have other proof that he's a scammer, but I don't want to educate scammers by explaining how we caught him.

 

[Mule Packer]

Once again, I'm always impressed with our moderators. Always diligent. Thanks, guys!

 

[jcs266]

As a kid in the early 70's i remember my uncle had about 20-30 of the original Hardy Boys series books from when he was a teen. I read them all and enjoyed them alot. Classic stuff. I should re-read them again one of these days.

 

[duman444]

Joe and Frank both died from traumatic brain injuries

What I remember most from the Hardy boys is at least one of them got knocked out each book. With that many concussions, I doubt they make it into their fifties and if they did Alzheimer's was with with them for the rest of their lives.

 

[ISCS Yoda]

A Kindle may not be for everyone, but it hooked me and I have never looked back!

I love my Kindle but I still read real books, too.

Especially Sherlock Holmes - I can re-read those stories a thousand times.

 

[digi-shots]

Yep, I remember reading them. Luckily our local library had quite a few.
I remember a line from one of them but not sure which - "…help Hudson" on the short wave radio
(someone was lost in the Hudson Bay Area, I think was their dad)

From there I moved on to Agatha Christie… and on to other mystery, suspense books.

 

[jcs266]

I love my Kindle but I do also enjoy a book in hand. I have a few hundred books here around the house. I LOVE to read.

 

[CajunBass]

When I was a kid in the late 50 early 60's and had just really started to read, I would read anything. I had a buddy who had a rack full of Hardy Boys books. I could read one in a day or two, so he'd take the one I finished, and bring me another one the next morning on the school bus. I don't know how many I read, but it was a bunch of them.

I remember reading Nancy Drew also. Nancy Drew was for girls? Who cares? It was something to read, and they were pretty good books.

Anybody else remember "Miss Pickerell?" I must have read those books a dozen times each. Miss Pickerell was an elderly lady, naturally, who ended up going on multiple adventures. She had a cow and dog, I believe, but I know she had a parot named "Reba" who was always squawking "Remarkable". It was always "Remarkable!" squawked Reba" I remember "Miss Pickerell Goes to Mars." This thread got me to thinking about them...I haven't for years. I did find them on Amazon, and a bulk pack for 4 for Kindel, for 99 cents. Why not?