[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!!!]

So obsessed was i that i wud start readin the book in the 4th period itself and somehow try to finish the book off before end of school and try to trade that book with my friends!!

It didnt strike me that the Hardy Boys cudve been a work of fiction till i was in the 7th std!! That realisation was i guess part of this dirty business of growing up i guess The Hardy Boys inspired short fat me to aspire to be 6 ft. But for them im sure i wud be Tendulkarish in my stature...Though i missed the 6ft by 2 "; at least im not what my father is!!

As i mentioned earlier , i stopped reading the Hardy Boys in the 9th std, 1996 when i realised that Franklin W Dixon is a nom de plume used by 3 different authors over the years. That was too much reality than i could handle then!!

Even now as i look back i can only appreciate with fondness how they were part of my growin up...i travelled the world with them...from Bayport to Moscow...Mombassa to HongKong...

This is a thread dedicated to that memory!! And of everyone else's who has an experience to share!!

[maddevil]

u bet......it reminds me of my school days. in fact i had a few copies of it till i passed them on to a relative last yr.

Hardy Boys rules for boys and gals in schools

D.M.

[ILLUMINATUS]

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!!!]

So obsessed was i that i wud start readin the book in the 4th period itself and somehow try to finish the book off before end of school and try to trade that book with my friends!!

It didnt strike me that the Hardy Boys cudve been a work of fiction till i was in the 7th std!! That realisation was i guess part of this dirty business of growing up i guess The Hardy Boys inspired short fat me to aspire to be 6 ft. But for them im sure i wud be Tendulkarish in my stature...Though i missed the 6ft by 2 "; at least im not what my father is!!

As i mentioned earlier , i stopped reading the Hardy Boys in the 9th std, 1996 when i realised that Franklin W Dixon is a nom de plume used by 3 different authors over the years. That was too much reality than i could handle then!!

Even now as i look back i can only appreciate with fondness how they were part of my growin up...i travelled the world with them...from Bayport to Moscow...Mombassa to HongKong...

This is a thread dedicated to that memory!! And of everyone else's who has an experience to share!!

same here dude.. come to think of it, i remember imaginin myself drivin 16-wheelers like them, jumping from a motorcycle to a truck etc etc, jus like them.. ha ha.. n hey.. i'm 6 foot 2" hahahaha

[ashishyahoo]

well guys my state was the same as that of donB....cudnt leave for ne place i had to go without a Hardy Boy...have almost read all their mystery series...and then more than half of their casefile series...rite from the first one - i remember when Joe's gf Iola Morton dies in a car explosion...

The Hardy Boys cud easily indeed become an obsession for any whacko teenager...some of the mysteries too were real kooool if i remember exactly - like 'Track of the Zombie' etc etc...where the suspense was so well maintained...still have a few copies of Hardy Boys which i neva managed to read later...lost interest somewhere in the eighth i think...

Apart from these i have also read some of the Nancy Drew mystery stories...dey werent bad too...

Ashish

[Evanescence]

Awesome thread! I used to be a a die-hard Hardy Boys Fan. They wanted a license for a plane... They just walk in do the formalities.. come out of the test with flying colours and get their licenses at once. Wow! They had a dream life! What with MOST of their cases having some connection with their dad's case!

There was a time when I (for that matter most guys) used to consider reading Nancy Drew a sacrilege. As the enlightened one (thats me ) used to day " Its below dignity for a true Hardy Boy Fan."

[khotahimachali]

hee hawwwwwwwwwww
hardboys ruleeeeeezzzzzzz
enuff has een said abt them!!!
so me not adding muchexcept tha i like the earlier series more than the bloody case files---i loved those adventure they went along with chet morton ....
bakee the combo series along with nancy drew sucks even more!!!
khota

[donB]

Originally Posted by Evanescence

There was a time when I (for that matter most guys) used to consider reading Nancy Drew a sacrilege. As the enlightened one (thats me ) used to day " Its below dignity for a true Hardy Boy Fan."

i hated nancy drew!! never read even one story... yep thought it was below my dignity!! ... though i think i did read one combo story but didnt like it too much

[eddy]

even i was a big fan of hardy boys and enod blyton during my school days...
anyone has any hardy boys or enid blytons e books ??..

QE u listneing or do we need to post it on the novel freakazoid thread ?

[sumitkatlana]

ahhhhhhh.....wo school ke din.......wo hardy boys series.....

[QuintEssence]

Originally Posted by eddy

even i was a big fan of hardy boys and enod blyton during my school days...
anyone has any hardy boys or enid blytons e books ??..

QE u listneing or do we need to post it on the novel freakazoid thread ?

yeh QE is listening, but u need to pm him once in a while to let him know about any new requests..

looking into my hardy boys collection, i seem to have 48 hardy boys mysteries

....and 40 enid blyton books. so if u need any..plz pm me. for more books u could join my yahoo ebooks group.

hardy boys..hmm, very excited bunch of teenagers with just the proper dose of hormones in their bloodstream and action in their veins. the first book i read was the voodoo plot; found out what is mardi gras for the first time in my ife (little did i know that i would be looking at mardi gras videos on FTV myself, a few years down the line )

the tower trasure and the shore road mystery are two more books that i recall having read some years back.

cheers
QE