Attention : Former/Current Hardy Boys fans

[desertvixen]

I picked it up a few weeks ago, but didn't get past the first few pages as I got distracted by other reading. However, over the last two days, I have been reading it and got hooked fast in.

The book is called The House on the Point (A Tribute to Franklin W. Dixon and the Hardy Boys) by Benjamin Hoff (also author of The Tao of Pooh).
It's basically a more adult revisioning of the first Hardy Boys book, and it is excellent. I'm tempted to see if there has been a similar book for Nancy Drew and her fans, because this one is just spectacular. One of the best updates is that the women in the story have much more personality than they originally did. The action is more intense and realistic, the characters are better drawn (especially the Hardy brothers).

I picked my copy up on the Barnes and Noble bargain table for $4.99, and it was definitely worth it.

DV

Comments

[daveamongus.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I'll have to check that out. I remember actually leaving The Hardy Boys behind when I was in junior high, realizing that the stories were all exactly the same. My brother, not noted for his literary skillz, even twigged to this near the same time and composed a hilarious pastiche of the typical Hardy Boys fight scene, filled with lots of haymakers to the solar plexus and running pell-mell and so forth.

Sounds very cool. Thanks, DV :)