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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

Dec-1-2004 18:40

I haven't thought of Encyclopedia Brown in years - are there any new ones out?
(Thread Resurrection... sorry, y'all.)
Got another Dan Brown - Demons and Angels... tip: read it in the daytime.

Dec-2-2004 00:11

Good grief....I haven't thought of Encyclopedia Brown in many years!! And when I was a little girl, I checked out as many Nancy Drew books as my school library held. I must admit, I've been an avid devourer of books since very early on...by 7th grade I had read the Hobbit and all of the LOTR books, almost the entire collection of Sherlock Holmes, *I had even tried War and Peace but at that age got really bored with it*

I've also read all of the "Cat Who..." mysteries...at one point I lived in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan, where all the books are based. I spent a good bit of time trying to sort out in my head what place was based on what city, lol. *It's a big "consiparcy" in the "Cat Who..." world.* Personally though, I liked the "Mrs. Murphy Mysteries" series better, by Rita Mae Brown *of which I have read them all as well* *blush*

If no one can tell, I spend most of my time reading...I'm only 21 years old, lol *blush*

~A.M

Dec-2-2004 09:35

I like the cat who books too. Have you read any of the Midnight Louise books by Carole Nelson Douglass? They feature cats too.

Dec-2-2004 09:43

Angels and Demons is the first of the Da Vinci code books- even though I didn't find it AS good as Da Vinci Code, I still think you need to read Angels and Demons first to get a good feel of the character.
And Deception Point, also by Brown, is great! But we also talked about this on another thread.
I used to devour Encyclopedia Brown and Trixie Beldon. I just found all my old Beldon books- the original ones, not the "new" series. Honey and Jim and Bobby- Bobwhites of the Glen.

Wow. Sorry. Such fond memories of my childhood, though. I'm finding Jim Patterson to be a great author- plus, he's featured a local radio station and d.j. to my area in two of his books, which I found to be amusing.

Dec-2-2004 15:45

Yeah, I like Midnight Louie, he's one cool cat ;) But my fave out of all of them is the Mrs. Murphy books :)

Dec-2-2004 18:44

Sadly, I don't read too many mysteries.

The Cat in the Hat was good, though!

;)

You should really pick a copy up!

Dec-4-2004 19:19

Ooh - just found my old One Minute Mysteries with Dr. Haledjian.

Is it just me, or does Brown have way too much gory fun with religious people? (Don't answer that, I know it's on the verge of controversial.)

I haven't been to the boards that often lately, Faeryshan - what thread is it?

Haven't read any Cat books either, Hat or otherwise...

Dec-4-2004 19:22

And Aislin - there ain't nothin' wrong with devouring a good book (with a side of Lady Grey and egg cookies... or pizza and beer...).

Dec-4-2004 19:53

I must admit i did not care too much for Dan Brown, i could handle him better if he had more than one target. I do have two suggestions though for the crowd. For mysteries i would recomend Boris Starling, british author, only two books so far but very good and for a good historical type novel i would recomend Katherine Neville, she writes some very well researched and intelligent books, she should she is almost head of the IMF.

Dec-6-2004 13:03

Maj- the thread with the Dan Brown and Da Vinci code stuff (GREAT thread) was started by Jstkdn and is a couple pages back on this Board. It's simply called Da Vinci Code.