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#31

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: Next-gen HBs fan!

Last post by CalvinKnox - November 15, 2024, 08:46:12 PM

Welcome!

#32

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: Casefiles 83 Toxic Revenge...

Last post by CalvinKnox - November 15, 2024, 08:42:36 PM

Toxic Revenge is at least a logical mystery, pretty juvenile though.  Poisoned Paradise made no sense.  And the burger baron villain was ridiculous.

#33

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: Next-gen HBs fan!

Last post by Nick_Stevens - November 12, 2024, 02:46:35 PM

Welcome, Nick! Always glad to see both younger and older Hardy Boys fans.  

Thanks Mac!

#34

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: Next-gen HBs fan!

Last post by MacGyver - November 12, 2024, 12:23:18 PM

Welcome, Nick! Always glad to see both younger and older Hardy Boys fans.  

#35

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Next-gen HBs fan!

Last post by Nick_Stevens - November 11, 2024, 09:57:42 PM

Hi all!

I'm a next-gen Hardy Boys fan and a few years back I even wrote a fanfic which I never released... I would have to dig to find it again, maybe worth doing?

Anyway I just wanted to say hi, I probably won't be around much but yeah I'm so glad to see that other people also appreciate good vintage teenager books! Rock on PIs!

#36

Hardy Boys Originals / Digests / Re: #85 The Skyfire Puzzle

Last post by Bigfootman - November 08, 2024, 06:30:22 PM

(The Eskimo's Secret & The Phantom of Venice both have more romance in them)

Mild correction: the two pilot books were The Bluebeard Room and Phantom of Venice, the Eskimo's Secret does have some fileish elements (and is even a Files book in the French series), and it could be one of the pilot books, but the other two were way more romance focused.

#37

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: What's the last book or it...

Last post by MacGyver - November 08, 2024, 05:28:04 PM

Nice! Soon you'll have the whole set!  

#38

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: What's the last book or it...

Last post by VLoneWolf - November 07, 2024, 04:00:05 PM

I just got The Flickering Torch Mystery The Short-Wave Mystery The Secret Panel and The WitchMaster's Key

#39

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: Casefiles 83 Toxic Revenge...

Last post by Bigfootman - November 07, 2024, 12:53:23 PM

At this point the Casefiles were pretty much more violent digests. I actually suspect the ghostwriter for Poisoned Paradise wrote "Toxic Revenge" and "Deadman at Deadwood" due to all three books being extremely slow placed, overly preachy, and having obvious mustache twirling villains. "Toxic Revenge" even mentions "Poisoned Paradise".

#40

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Casefiles 83 Toxic Revenge

Last post by CalvinKnox - November 03, 2024, 11:33:00 PM

As far as environmental themed casefiles go, Toxic Revenge is better than its immediate predecessor, Poisoned Paradise, but I find that it really doesn't fit the series.  If I had been reading the casefiles from the start (and not been the massive HB fan I am), I would be feeling pretty jaded with the lack of any serious attempt at a logical chronology.  It's felt like years since the Hardys battled terrorists in Dead on Target and Hostages of Hate (and several seasons have clearly passed), but now they're stuck mucking around in high school, which shatters my whole image of the Casefile Hardys.  In my opinion, it would have been a keen idea to have a little more differentiation between series. They could have been perpetual juveniles in the digests, but pros in the casefiles, working directly for the network like in Spies and Lies, or working with Fenton like in Road Pirates and the Operation Phoenix Trilogy. (Up the reading level a few years too, stat encroaching on the demographic that is about to be reading things like Tom Clancy and Clive Cussler