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| susquesus |
Posted - January 27 2004 : 01:15:32 AM
Do you have any favorite book series from your childhood/teenage years? Tom Swift, Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Boxcar Children, Encyclopedia Brown, Laura Ingalls Wilder? |
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| Christina |
Posted - February 13 2004 : 11:31:37 AM
Nancy Drew would win hands down. My favorite of all time was "The Spider Sapphire Mystery" and I still remember the first one I read which was "The Spiral Staircase Mystery." To this day I still wish I could be as resourceful and organized as Nancy!
I also loved Encyclopedia Brown, plus some other series which came out earlier in the 20th century. Anybody remember The Moffitts series by Eleanor Estes or the Betsy-Tacy friendship series documenting early 20th century life in Minnesota? |
| Kurt |
Posted - January 27 2004 : 8:52:57 PM
Well, if a magazine column that became two books counts, I vote for "The Old Man and The Boy" by Robert Ruark. Where else can a young'un learn about lares and penates? My grandfather had ever issue of "Field and Stream" in the cellar and if you strung together every column from 1953 to 1964, it was a power of reading on everything from gun safety to surf fishing to training a goat to African safari to knight errants to sputnik. Guess where I got my complementary close ? |
| Wilderness Woman |
Posted - January 27 2004 : 08:21:49 AM
Definitely!... Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" series! I identified with Laura. No surprises there, right?
A very close second choice: Nancy Drew, the original versions. I yearned for a little roadster like hers and I named my little dog after hers. The new, modernized versions just don't cut it! |
| susquesus |
Posted - January 27 2004 : 01:54:52 AM
Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, Hardy Boys, and Dune. |
| CT•Ranger |
Posted - January 27 2004 : 01:25:59 AM
The Sacketts series by Louis L'Amour.
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