About half my girls this year are totally into the Nancy Drew series. I only have a few of the books, so I was thinking I'd get some more for my classroom library. I did some research to find out how many there are in the series, too many for me to buy them all.
I knew Carolyn Keene was a pseudonym, but Wikipedia says, they were written by several different people. Who knew!? I also thought they had been written in the late 40s and 50s. But they started in 1930, and they are still being written. She's one old teenager.
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11-07-2007, 06:16 PM #1
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11-07-2007, 06:32 PM #2
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I was a big Hardy boys fan! of coarse I thought shawn cassiy was really cute!
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I loved the Nancy Drew books when I was a kid - heck I still like them now, but definitely the original, orignals - they were re-written and "updated" in the 50's I think. The first printings have far more interesting language...
I had a big collection as a kid, but they were all sold when I was in college and my parents moved. I have just a couple now, one or two originals and a couple that were reissued just a few years ago in their original state."Sharing the road means getting along, not getting ahead" - 1994 Washington State Driver's Guide
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11-07-2007, 06:48 PM #4
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I love(d) the Nancy Drew books! In fact, I would really love the whole set and I would read them now as an adult.
I remember that both Carolyn Keene and the person(s) who wrote the Hardy Boys were just pseudonyms and the books were written by a variety of people.
I saw the Nancy Drew movie when it came out a few months ago, in fact I went as close to opening night as I could. How's THAT for dorky???
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11-07-2007, 07:14 PM #5
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I loved Nancy Drew as a child, but eventually found her adventures a bit too pat. I didn't know they were still being written.
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11-07-2007, 09:08 PM #6
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Count me in with the Nancy Drew fans, circa late 60's
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11-08-2007, 12:44 PM #7
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I love Nancy Drew too!! I don't think you are dorky at all.
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11-07-2007, 06:47 PM #8
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Yeah, I was the 4th kid in the family, and the only girl, so it was the Hardy Boys books for me. There must be a whole bunch of us out there with the embarrassment of having had crushes on Shaun Cassidy. My friends and I had little notebooks in which we cut out magazine pictures from Tiger Beat and pasted them into our "journals." Originally Posted by Brandi
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11-08-2007, 01:41 AM #9
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I'm sorry, but his big brother David was the dreamy one. Originally Posted by Starfish
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11-08-2007, 04:05 AM #10
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Late 60s here. My collection's long gone. But I'm trying to build a collection of the 1915-vintage "Motor Girls" and "Automobile Girls" series. Yum!
And would you believe a crush on Donny Osmond?
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11-08-2007, 05:29 AM #11
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And to improve my french, I've been working my way through "Alice" mysteries (same author, translated into french, not sure how Nancy became Alice). Junior High reading level, about my speed.
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11-08-2007, 06:13 PM #12
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That is so fuuny! i had them all over my walls not my notebook. But I never liked Leaf Garret! My husband teases me and says i do. it only cause that is the only name of a guy at that time that he remeber's. i DID NOT LOVE HIM! Originally Posted by Starfish
Yeah, I was the 4th kid in the family, and the only girl, so it was the Hardy Boys books for me. There must be a whole bunch of us out there with the embarrassment of having had crushes on Shaun Cassidy. My friends and I had little notebooks in which we cut out magazine pictures from Tiger Beat and pasted them into our "journals."
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Books were great, though.Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
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11-08-2007, 03:23 PM #13
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Thank you!
I PM'ed you with my school address. For me it's kind of exciting to see my kids eagerly reading and talking about the books with each other. They don't want to put them down. It's actually gotten some of my boys to start reading The Hardy Boys.
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11-08-2007, 04:57 PM #14
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It looks like the Alliance Francaise classes are short-term enough I could actually do that. I'm never in one place long enough to take a community college class. It's more than an hour drive, but I just might! Thanks!
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11-08-2007, 05:41 PM #15
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I have 7th graders; a lot of my former Nancy Drew-girls are now into Sammy Keyes books.
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