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 Posted: Sat May 27, 2006 12:10 am
Has anyone else read these charming little mysteries by Carolyn Keene?
I really like reading the books about Nancy Drew, and I also like the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys crossovers that Ms. Keene writes as well. I've been a fan since I was about eight or nine years old. I was watching a Sherlock Holmes movie on television and when my dad realized that I liked mysteries, he suggested that I read Nancy Drew. My first one was The Sign of the Twisted Candles and it grew from there. I have several now, even though I've read many more.
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 1:24 pm
Oh, I loved Nancy Drew! It's been a few years since I've read anything, but what good memories your thread has brought back. My mom had two on the bookshelf ("The Scarlet Slippers" and something else), so I read them for book reports. Then, when I wanted more, I started getting them from the library.
I think Nancy Drew books are really good mysteries. I'm not often a mystery reader (I don't read bestseller mysteries or anything), but I've liked every book I've read by Carolyn Keene.
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Romantic Conversationalist
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Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 9:00 pm
My father grew up an avid Hardy Boys fanatic. He has boxes and boxes to this day of the original books. <3
His love for the Hardy Boys is what inspired him to get me reading Nancy Drew, which assisted in the evolution of my book-nerdum. I was seven when I started reading them, and I still have a ridiculous amount of them absorbing space in boxes. I definitely think Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys are great reads. Like Fairgrass, it has been a while since I have delved through time and read any recently - but I would recommend them in a heartbeat. I hope someday that my daughter will love them as well.
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Posted: Mon May 29, 2006 5:44 pm
I think the books are great for children and adults alike. *nods* Kids can read exciting stories of suspense and adults can relax since they're pretty simple to read, and more recent books deal with Nancy as a maturing adult with problems in romance as well as detective work. I have a small collection of Franklin Dixon's Hardy Boys mysteries as well. I keep them with my Nancy Drew books.
Book-nerdum? I like that! I think that's what happened with me too, Kalandra.
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:13 pm
I've been a fan of Carolyn Keene since I was five or six. I love Nancy Drew. It's been a little while since I've read any. Has anybody read The Dana Girls, also by Carolyn Keene?
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:14 pm
I hadn't even heard of that until you mentioned it, Finavere. I'll keep my eyes out for it when I go to get more books though.
One of my co-workers bought me The Secret of the Old Clock recently for my birthday.
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:05 pm
Even now, I still enjoy reading the Nancy Drew books. I've read the entire original series (the yellow hardcover ones), nearly all of another, paperback series, and a lot of some of the other ones. I know that not all of them were written by the same person, but they're all very enjoyable.
While I don't like reading the actual Hardy Boys books, I love the crossover ones. I'm almost positive that I've read all of the crossovers, by now.
Something that annoys me, though, is that I honestly can't recall the title of a Nancy Drew book (a paperback one) that I once read and truly enjoyed more than any other. I know that it had something to do with some sort of scientist, and a chemical that may or may not have been actually injected...But I can't seem to find it anywhere, and I've asked myself many times if I wasn't just imagining having read a book under that topic.
One day, I'll have a full collection. I've got an entire shelf filled with the Nancy Drew books, encompassing the harcover, paperback, and crossovers. The only series I don't want to go after are the Nancy Drew notebooks, the Nancy Drew on Campus, and the choose-your-own-adventure ones, as I've tried those and don't really like them. I also don't think I'll be going after the new 'manga'.
What I also want to own are the movies. whee I've watched them all, as my library has them, but I'd love to actually have them to watch over and over again.
And all the computer games. Can't forget about those! There are fifteen currently out (I'm playing the newest one now, actually, in my spare time), and I've completed all but the newest and The Scarlet Hand. Own half of them already, but I plan to get all of them one day. They're a load of fun.
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Posted: Mon Nov 13, 2006 5:07 am
I haven't read either Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys in forever, but I loved both series. I got started by reading older copies of the series that my mom and uncle used to own respectively when they were kids. I also enjoyed the crossover series.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:05 am
I hope no one minds, but I moved this thread to the Mystery subforum.
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Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:03 am
I'm so glad other people have fond memorie sof this set of books. Now that there's a movie, there's been a bit of resurgence of interest in the titles here at my library. I wonder if the same thing would happen with the Hardy Boys?
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2008 1:52 pm
Does anyone have an opinion on the graphic novel versions of Nancy Drew? The art isn't too bad, and the stories are about the same level as the books.
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:58 pm
There have been Nancy Drew movies out for years, just not like the newest one.
As for the graphic novels... I haven't read the one I got when I purchased the new DS game, but I will get to it eventually.
The PC Nancy Drew games continue to hold my interest for a good period of time - in fact, I still turn on the newest one in order to play Scopa - but the DS games disappoint me... I remember the GBA version of Haunted Mansion and had expected the DS games to be similar, but they're just childish games that point out everything for you. It's upsetting... yet I still play them.
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 11:20 am
Huh. The only platform I knew about for the Nancy Drew games was the PC. Too bad it got dumbed down for the DS. Maybe it was to accomodate the smaller screen?
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 5:47 pm
I love Nancy Drew, they are short and straight to the point! Once I saw them at the bookstore I knew I had to try them. I'm glad I did becuase now I have collected about 26 volumes of the series. I also like how the are hard-covered and small.
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Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 11:51 am
There are a set of hardcovers--the last time they were revised was in the 70s, I think. There are also tons of paperbacks--new ones are issued about every month.
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