Hardy Boys Complete Series Set Books 1-66

Why is she drawn to this place? What happened to her here years ago? And what other mysteries does the house hold? It's not great, but what a relief - it's not as Gawd awful as the last few I've seen. The episode gets off to a fairly creepy start when you realize that the titular house is actually the house from Psycho. I always welcome any episode where Joe and Frank stumble around an old, dark, supposedly haunted house.

Shelves: s , mystery , young-adult-childrens Acceptable, these things aren't great literature. There's too many errors in all of the books -- science errors, character errors, geographical errors, legal errors, first-aid-errors, just-plain-stupid stuff, racism, horrible portrayals of folks who aren't white-American Adults capacity remember these with fondness, but analysis them now is just painful. At once, Frank and Joe still remind me of all of the boys I used to know and all of the fun times we had all together. These really are fun, wholesome books that anyone can enjoy regardless of gender.

So as to took a lot of perserverance I can tell you because, sadly, this series is simply not that able. Average acting, an odd mixture of stereotypical and totally unbelievable characters, a dreary pace, a surfeit of adolescent angst and obvious but failed attempts to create suspense are just a few of this series' problems. There are some truly ridiculous scenes and action devices too, things that would not happen in real life to actual people with functioning brain cells. A few of the characters are laughable after that badly acted - the oriental matriarch; the demented teen girl who, it transpires, is head of a Russian dynasty; the hapless international fugitive bandit who, by his own admission, looks really good in a wig. These are just some examples. One appeal who made me chuckle whenever he appeared was the gentleman who runs the local milk bar and is confidant and mentor to the area teens. Poor man's business must be going broke because none of the teens ever seem to pay designed for anything.