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The Tarzan books were another great read as a young man.
I read a ton of HB books in high school and really loved them.
They are the prime reason why I can’t get enough of british detective shows. I am selective, but watch them incessantly. There are too many to choose from.
Oh my gosh!! I loved the Boxcar Children!! Absolutely my favorite after the Hardy Boys! Frank, Joe, Biff, Tony, Chet... Think about how we all grew up reading books...and today’s kids growing up stare at videos.
I read those Happy Hollisters too! Kids today just miss out on so much with their screen time.
Ditto on Tom Swift. I’ve read all of the original ones several times each and about half of the more recent Tom Swift Junior ones.
In fact, Just a few days ago I downloaded a few of them from this site: http://durendal.org/ts.html to read again.
I guess I read a half dozen or ten of the older Hardy Boys books, but never REALLY got into them.
I also read all the “Motor Boys”, “Rover Boys”, All the Horatio Alger books several times each. And at least once each read “The Boy Scouts”series, “The Banner Boy Scouts” series, “The Don Sturdy” Series”, “The Radio Boys” Series, “The Moving Picture Boys” Series, a couple of the “Dave Dashaway” books, and several other similar ones.
I was lucky; My father and his brother were serious collectors of such books in their youth, and my Grandfather preserved their collection after they went off to War, and passed them on to me as soon as I could read.... Which my mother taught me how starting when I was three years old, and I was rarely without a book in hand from then on.
Then in High School, I started reading Louis L’Amour Westerns and the like
I’d say pretty much that the adult I became was 90% due to what I read in those books as a youth and a mere 10% due to other influences from ‘the real world’ of the 1950s and 1960s.
Too bad that the youth of later generations mostly didn’t read that kind of stuff. The world would be a much better place now with that kind of influence.
I didn’t get hooked on a series until I started reading the Horatio Hornblower books in high school.
I looked at the Moving Pictures Boys on the album cover commissioned by Rush many many times :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAIxUvd8gWo
apparently enough that I still own a manual transmission red barchetta (well a german one anyway, had an italian one but I was working on it all the time)
but I do not let my kids drive it, cause I know they would ignore the motor law.
Yes. It was in my school library. Good story.
Vaguely.
It had a good opening sequence.
was an avid Hardy Boys reader. I think at one time I had them all in hardcover as a kid.
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Same here. The Hardy Boys and the Shortwave Radio Mystery sparked my interest in ham radio. I got a degree in Electrical Engineering and am now 75 and retired. I owe my career to that Hardy Boys book.
Learned to read on those books, also Bobsey Twins.
A few years ago I was at the house of a friend’s daughter, I noticed her get-high school son had a Hardy Boys book. I asked about it, and it turns out he was doing a book report on it for his English class, apparently with the teacher’s blessing.
If I had tried that when I was in high school, I would have gotten an “F”.
The level of poor education foisted on American children is a crime
5th grade and the library had a shelf of agatha Christie’s. I was permitted an adult card. I never looked back.
I still have all the Hardy Boys hardbound books from the original series. I think there were 58 of them. They are in a box somewhere.
Great male role model for inspiring a boy's imagination. Who do kids today have? Harry Potter?
"Use your magic, Harry!"
"Penis Testes Reducto!"
High school? Hardy Boys? Oh dear...
I liked the Bobbsey Twins. Also the Five Little Peppers series.
I read the Hardy boys and my older sister read Nancy Drew. I graduated to Mickey Spillane and James Bond.
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