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May-16-2004 16:41

Hi any body has read or is a fan of Nancy Drew, The Hardy boys, Trixie bendel? Puhleez post!
P.S. If so do ya have a fave?
A book lover - Mag

Jun-13-2006 12:02

Haha- I remember Encyclopedia Brown! They were a little too short for me, but I read them just for hoots. And the Boxcar Children? I don't think anyone mentioned that. They were nice no-brainers.

I really liked Nancy Drew too- the yellow hardback cover ones. Not the newer ones, those didn't do it for me. There really was a Caroline Keene, she wrote the original Nancy Drew books, because I vaguely remember reading a newspaper article about her when she died. Other people kept on writing with her pen name when she retired. I read all 56 of the yellow hardback ones. I couldn't tell you what a single one of them are named, but I remember the number of books in the series. Go figure. I tried reding the hardy boys books, but I didn't like them. Aren't there some newer books with Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys together? I can't remember. (By "newer" I mean not the original ones).

I've read one Agatha Christie book: And Then There Were None. It was a summer reading assignment for school. I started it and ended up staying awake until 2: 00 a.m. to finish it. I couldn't put it down. I'm sure all the relatives I was visiting thought I was just a social little butterfly. (Note the sarcasm). I'll have to read some more of her books.

Has anybody read The Power of Three? Its some novel by some person. I know. Really informative. We started it in class butnever finished it, and I'm wondering if i should take the initiative to read it on my own. I haven't read any mystery books in a while. Maybe I should. If anybody has read it, tell me if its good or not.

Jun-18-2006 19:12

omg nancy drew books i have an ambition to collect the lot. that could take a while :). i used to read them religiously, the mysteries the case files, everything.

i just reading patricia cornwell 'The Body Farm' mainly because of Sleuth it's really good

Jun-19-2006 01:34

Read all the original Nancy Drew series and the Hardy Boys, and graduated to stories like Sorry, Wrong Number (don't remember who wrote the original radio broadcast) and the works of EA Poe in 3rd grade. There were many others, but I don't remember them at the moment. Currently, I'm a big fan of The Cat Who... series.

Jun-27-2006 09:48

My favorite mystery author is Laurie R. King - especially her Mary Russell series. Start it from the beginning and do adventures with Mary and Sherlock Holmes :)

Jun-27-2006 16:15

I read the newND books. It's first person,and George is a computer geek, and Bess fixes cars. Not what I expected, but I still love them!!!

Jun-28-2006 03:53

I got my start on the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, and the Alfred Hitchcock books. Now I’m really into Dashielle Hammett and Raymond Chandler. I like Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle stories, but I can only read them every so often. Tony Hillerman does great police procedurals on a Navajo Reservation. I’m hooked big time into spy thrillers and adventure novels. Len Dieghton, Dan Silva, Clive Cussler, and Tom Clancy. I’m a huge fan of all their work. I really get into non-fiction. I couldn’t put down “The French Connection.” I love reading spy memoirs from the cold war (my family escaped from East Berlin) from both sides, very interesting. Of course Harry Potter. I love reading cookbooks (I’m a foodie and a competitive bbq’er.) Philosophy, religion, science, psychology… I love it all. I also just inherited a huge paleontology library so now I am deeply into reading up on dinosaurs. Throw in my magic books and I think that pretty much covers it for now. Oh yeah I have a degree in PLSI, so history is real big for me. Especially early American history, so I have tons of books on that too.

Jul-26-2006 16:01

I started out reading Nancy Drew books in Elementary school, but only the classics. Only the first twenty books were written by Caroline Keane. Some company, I can't remeber who, bought out the series and made it their own. You can see some of the differences later on. I'm not certain, but I think the same company also bought out The Hardy Boys. I used to love the classics, but I outgrew them. The modernized books weren't much better though, for me at least. I love the computer games, I'm waiting for Danger by Design to come out in stores. The PC games are more modernized, which I love. I actually found out about sleuth through the herinteractive.com.

As far as books go, I really enjoy Edgar Allen Poe. The first modern mystery I read was "Tell No One" by Harlan Coben. I know I've read tons more, but I can't remember them right now...

Oct-11-2006 20:26

They were my faves when I was around 8-12 years old. I have just about all their cases -- I even have the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Supermysteries. =) Haven't read 'em for years tho.

Oct-11-2006 21:42

Does anyone else find it ironic that this thread was bumped, all things considered? :)

Oct-12-2006 00:56

*reads too much into the question*

uhh...are you saying that I need a library card to get to Cairo?