[Evanescence]

Originally Posted by 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!!

oops! sorry to hv offended ya!

[ILLUMINATUS]

Originally Posted by 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!!

dude.. do u read it now? nope.. u dont.. n y is that? isnt it bcos u find it kiddish? how else wud u call it?

[donB]

hey its not a question of feeling kiddish...u read 10 jeffrey archer novels or john grisham novels ull begin to see a pattern

u cant be gripped by those writers as Hardy Boys did...imagine readin a grisham novel week after week for 3 or 4 yrs...

ive read 100+ hardy boys and its always been exciting...never once did i feel if i read one more hardy boys ill kill myself!!

I guess as teenagers growing up we were able to look at those chaps and identify with what we wanted to be like!!! i mean who wudnt wanna be a 18 yr old intelligent crime buster or a 17 yr old hunk of a crime buster!! and have gorgeous gfs!!

[Evanescence]

Guys, we obviously were excited about HB when we were in the 11-15 age group. But it now feels kiddish. Come to think of it, even Ludlum's books now seem so stereotyped. I guess I'll call his books kiddish pretty soon. But JG's aren't THAT stereotyped.

What im saying is "kiddish"-ness is defined wrt time.

[ashwinbala]

Nice thread folks!

Methinks that we could read hundreds of these stories is becasue we were more open to fantasy - our imagination was not ravaged by the passage of time! I remember how I used to get excited by the famous five and the hardy boys - I was prob around 10-11 at the time and it was soooo inspiring to read abt 14 to 16 year old kids doing so much stuff.... there was a special thrill reading at that age that is rare to come by these days! The highlight in these books - esp enid blytons - used to be the food - which enid blyton fan wouln't have dreamt about scones!!! I still think of scones as hot ice cream cones with some kind of sweet filling And the lazarus plot set me wondering for sometime about whether I was really me or some kid from somewhere on whom plastic surgery was performed and planted in my family!!! Can I get that from any other book today? No Way!

[alterego*]

hey guyz!nice thread!..infact i thought i was the only one who wus literally crazy about HB...nice to see ther r ppl like me...i used to hav a huge crush on frank n joe hardy..i started out a bit late(i was into famous five till then) mayb in 8th standard n read them till 10th,infact the next best book to HB series r nancy drews..n super mysteries with nancy drew and hardy boys..they were awesome...but eh,now i feel they r kiddish..but still they are the best books of all time..this thread has reminded me of gud old days of HB