[Evanescence]

Originally Posted by ILLUMINATUS

While i liked the Hardy Boys, there was somethin called the case files.. i recollect that i dint like them much.. dont remember wat was different abt them but i dint like them.. think they were way to fictious...

In case files, these guys are a few years older. 20 & 21 if I remember right. By the time we came to case files, i guess we were tired of it and had "grown up" Thats why you dint like them. Neither did I. After reading nearly a hundred HB its difficult to keep the motivation going.

[MrAnderson]

Originally Posted by donB

the only score i can ever boast of in my life is my CAT 04 VA...99.85...the genesis for that has been the hardy boys series!! That series lighted my passion for reading!! ever since i got my hands on my first book in the 5th std...it had been an endurin obsession of mine till the 9th std to read every hardy boys possible in the library!! [ they had a huge collection!!!]

I guess we've accidentally discovered the secret to a gr8 score in the va section in cat..
read hardy boys when in schoool...ne primary school kid wanna get inot the iims and surfing the forum..the message is clear for u ...get hold of hardy boys collection and START READING ..
for the record much like donB ..va %tile 99.85...and guess wht i used to read in 5th std... ...
for the kiddoz..if ur ready to settle for spjain,mdi etc instead of the iims..probly u can think of nancy drew..
as for enid blyton .... that is again in the hardy boys league..can get u into IIMA .. pm fellow pgite ... khotaji for detailed preps strategies involving the famous five..five findouters etc..( i liked the five findouters better ..)
andy.

[Evanescence]

Originally Posted by MrAnderson

as for enid blyton .... that is again in the hardy boys league..can get u into IIMA .. pm fellow pgite ... khotaji for detailed preps strategies involving the famous five..five findouters etc..( i liked the five findouters better ..)
andy.

Join the club. I too liked the FIve Find-Outers and Dog better than the Famous Five. Fatty,Bets, Goon et al will be etched in my memory forever.

[ILLUMINATUS]

Originally Posted by Evanescence

In case files, these guys are a few years older. 20 & 21 if I remember right. By the time we came to case files, i guess we were tired of it and had "grown up" Thats why you dint like them. Neither did I. After reading nearly a hundred HB its difficult to keep the motivation going.

haha.. n to think v used to analyse the book after v had read it!

[dilbert rules]

hi guys...
count me in too in the Hardy Boys Appreciation Club....I started reading with Frank and Joe Hardy, and this fixation carried on from Std IV to Std X...case files..couldn't exhaust the list...but the older version...definitely read each and every one of them....remember one very clearly...(that was one of the two i actually bought)
the prime time crime...remember this one anybody???about a TV show...
i knew only after reading this thread that Franklin W Dixon was not one author but a pseudonym!!!very surprising indeed....

[Praveen]

Hey great thread folks!

I used to be a die hard HB fan too! Brings back lot of fond memories. I guess thats when my serious reading took off. Guess same with most of the people here.

Interstingly that was the period (for me it was late eighties & early nineties) HB used to be only window to American culture (girlfriends, cars..infact even burgers & sundaes ) with internet, cable tv etc non-existant!

I think I started off with Program for Destruction (or someting like that )

regards,
Praveen

[curtz-imi]

really gr8 thread..brought bak old memories....wut days mate..used to finish 2-3 books a day those days...well i started with the 3 investigators...in class 3-4 dont rem...then went to HB...n later graduated to other books..but still am a big fan of the 3 investigators..n the HB....

gr8 to know that quinty has a collection....will borrow a couple from him..to bring bak those gr8 memories...

ciao..

[Catalytic]

Me started late (i think in 8th) and finished all 84 from the original series.. infact i was so crazy that i agreed to be a bonded labour so that i could extra money to buy HB .. after i realized a new HB is released every week then i lost all enthu my pocket couldnt support my hobby.. but still read if i am able to get my hands on it (strictly thru borrowing )

[Evanescence]

Originally Posted by ILLUMINATUS

haha.. n to think v used to analyse the book after v had read it!

oh yeah! feels so kiddish now.

[anuragrp]

dont cal it kiddish man!!
u know that were d only novels i use 2 read since 8th -10th standard!!
and i dont regret it, though i stopped readin at al since 10th!!