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Lost Canyoneer posted:Okay, I seriously want to read these. The Three Investigators are solid books. I spent many years of my young adult life reading them. The fact that Alfred Hitchcock is a minor character who pops in every so often made them even better.
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They have a base in a junkyard with multiple secret entrances and exits. They've also got a bully I think.
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# ? Apr 12, 2017 03:38 |
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They also ride around in a chauffeured Rolls Royce limo thanks to Jupe winning a contest and pointing out that 30 days of use could be interpreted as 720 hours of usage. The chauffeur is also kind of like their Alfred.
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# ? Apr 12, 2017 03:43 |
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bridge to terebithia more or less made me a goth
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Hammerite posted:the 4th book (5th book?) has a hilariously racist bit in the middle Yeah, that was The Mountain of Adventure, I think. It's true that Enid Blyton was pretty racist. Not so much the Adventure series, but some of her books for toddlers had characters called Golliwogs that have to be seen to be believed. I don't know if that kind of thing was normal in England in the 1950s or not.
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# ? Apr 12, 2017 03:49 |
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Now I do
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# ? Apr 12, 2017 03:59 |
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Three investigators sound rad as hell.
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Bogus Adventure posted:Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys were small-time. It was, is, and always will be about The Three Investigators: high five, I posted these guys earlier. But I always assumed they were just a cheap knockoff of Hardy Boys, but I liked them more.
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Robot Randy posted:i only read one book titled the great brain and it loving sucked You must've had an underdeveloped appreciation for grifting as a child.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:Three investigators sound rad as hell. They rock as hard as 1960s-ish teen mystery-solving teams can. Last Chance posted:high five, I posted these guys earlier. But I always assumed they were just a cheap knockoff of Hardy Boys, but I liked them more. They might be. They don't have the branding of Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew, but their stories always appealed to me. poo poo...I might just go back and read some of them again.
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Bogus Adventure posted:They rock as hard as 1960s-ish teen mystery-solving teams can. Might be worth it. I remember also reading the late '80s series too. This cover image may or may not have prompted an early sexual awakening and a later penchant for gangfuck porn:
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Bogus Adventure posted:Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys were small-time. It was, is, and always will be about The Three Investigators: Came here to post about these. I read a bunch, and I think I liked them, but I for the life of me cannot remember a word of any of them. They were just the only decent thing when the school forced us to pick stuff from their god awful library. They also had those Oz books where it was all the other stories about the dullahan queen and the princess that was a boy or something. And also a novelization of the X-men.
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Last Chance posted:Might be worth it. I remember also reading the late '80s series too. This cover image may or may not have prompted an early sexual awakening and a later penchant for gangfuck porn: That's such a 1980s cover, and just amazing. It's also begging for a XXX parody The Three Insextigators Gangbusters #4: Funny Busin-rear end Brought to you by BRAZZERS Hrist posted:Came here to post about these. I read a bunch, and I think I liked them, but I for the life of me cannot remember a word of any of them. They were just the only decent thing when the school forced us to pick stuff from their god awful library. I'm so happy that more people remember these, and that they enjoyed them.
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