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I'm starting to see it now; the stereotype of females always in the kitchen cooking or being ultra protected because they couldn't possibly solve a mystery themselves, the predictable plot (so here are no double crossing? Ever? IT would make it more interesting...),
the time it takes them to figure things out!( So we aren't remembering that really great clue that happened like ten minutes ago? No? Ok, I'll wait till you go a couple of days and then remember that ultra important clue or that really good hiding place you need to visit to, I don't know, maybe save someone's life??)

I'm thinking I might need to switch over to Nancy Drew...

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2.0

I read these aloud to my son, who enjoys them. I don't know what I am missing, I find them a bit flat and redundant, and therefore predictable. Oh well. Still love reading with my son, that trumps plot and writing.

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3.0

When I first read Hardy Boys, I think I was in class 5, I had such a crush on Frank Hardy. I liked the brainy one over the brawny one and that sums up my first impression of Hardy Boys.
In their late teens, Frank and Joe Hardy take after their detective father Fenton Hardy. Frank is the older of the two and has more breakthroughs in the cases because he is the brainy one. Joe is the younger brother who more often than not is useful when things get hot and they need to fight their way out.
Like Nancy Drew, the books in the The Hardy Boys series re written by ghostwriters under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. And yes, the earlier books were better than the latter ones.