Hardy's and Drew

[Barb Gordon]

So did/does anyone read The Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew? I remember reading The Hardy Boys up till somewhere in Junior High, I thought they were so dang awesome. Someone once asked me, since I was a girl, why I wasn't reading Nancy Drew (I had a friend at the time who was). And for me, at that age, all girl detectives just seemed so lame. The guys always got the cool adventures, did the dangerous stuff, and frankly, their book and stories were much more interesting. I picked up a few Drew books and read them to see if they were good, but quickly got back to The Hardy Boys! So if you read either of those titles, did you like both or either of them, why or why not?

~Barb

[The Penguin]

I loved those Hardy Boys books!! They were always so much fun to read. There really is nothing quite like a good mystery. I've got 8 of those books (some of my favs) sitting around my house, now I feel like reading them again!

I found them! I have:
Foul Play (go figure :p )
Brother Against Brother
The Dead Season
Uncivil War
Diplomatic Deceit
The Last Laugh (comic books :D )
Chokehold (wrestling!)
Web of Horror

I never read Nancy Drew, but I did read some books where she teamed up with the Hardys, those were fun. Ah memories :)

[JTurner954]

I used to read The Hardy Boys. I was so happy in Middle School when I found out that they carried almost all of them. I read up to #16 until I stopped (I juist stopped. I couldn't keep up anymore). I even read some of the The Hardy Boys Casefiles books.

[RogueMartian]

I never read the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew. They weren't really big in my school, and they weren't really in the library. The only mystery books I remember reading were the Boxcar kids, which were kind of cool. The only cool mystery series though was the "howliday inn" series. Think it was written by a guy named James Howe. There were only 4 that I remember, but those were some cool books.

[GL2k2]

I did try to read them, but I couldn't get into them. I did however find pleasure in Encylopedia Brown.

[DR. BELCH]

I was also a big fan of Encyclopedia Brown. My mom's got a shelf full of Nancy Drew books, although I've only ever read one, years ago. I forget which, but I used a scene from it for a school project--a diorama in which a tied and gagged Nancy is lying on her side and desperately kicking a locked door, tapping out Morse code with her shoes....

[Barb Gordon]

Sounds like a cool diorama. I have just about every Hardy Boy's book....god only knows where in the garage and which box they are in though,lol. I got somewhere in the 40's as to how many books there were...or maybe it was the 60's, I really don't know. I loved it when I found out that they had adventures of them when they were in college, those are the ones I remember that had Nancy Drew in them...Joe was so dang hot and adorable...but that's just me.

~Barb

[batboy2001]

I used to love those books! Casefiles, and the old hardcover ones... Till I relized that the plot was almost always the same thing (just different subjects), and I could figure out who the bad guy was by the second chapter. :D

[DarkAngel]

Originally posted by JTurner954
I even read some of the The Hardy Boys Casefiles books.

I loved the Casefiles books. I have some of them: The Operation Phoenix trilogy, the Ring of Evil trilogy, and a couple others. I also have some of the original books lying around somewhere.