So, you read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys as a kid...

[lyssie]

It's come to my attention that more than one or two people on my flist is actually rather a large fan of... Nancy Drew/Frank Hardy.

Obviously, this requires something like a fic challenge. Or even just more discussion of said fact.

Y'know. With angsty memories of being trapped in a cabin and kissing.

eta: ok. people I know (or who know people I know) who have discussed such things as Nancy/Frank.

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havocthecat
control_freak80
medie
smittywing

FIVE PEOPLE.... Obviously, more than enough....

Comments

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

Yes! It is more than enough. I would totally participate in a challenge.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Whoot!

[raisintorte.livejournal.com]

I just went through all of my books and I don't have The Last Resort I have 21 of the super mysteries, but I appear not to have a copy of the most important one of all!

My local library doesn't have it, so I'm checking used book dealers online now.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Y'know. With angsty memories of being trapped in a cabin and kissing.

I had totally forgotten about the 'snuggle for body warmth' bit in that one.

And yes, the related angst.

Don't forget Secrets of the Nile where they get reeeeally close and still decide to be 'friends'.

DV

[pataka02.livejournal.com]

Nancy Drew! I loved Nancy Drew. She's like the ultimate Mary Sue because she's good at everything and she can learn anything, too. She can ride horses and do stunts on them, while also working at a dude ranch and having a perfect boyfriend and not being the "plump" friend or the "sporty" friend...and having a great relationship with her father, and generally being all around amazing while also solving mysteries and hiding in bizarre places.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

See, and I always found Ned to be obnoxious and uninteresting. And he was always whining about her getting into danger. And was not very supportive.

But, yes. Mary Sue.

[pataka02.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't remember much about Ned but there was that one book where the girls were at Shadow Ranch or something and trying to figure out who was sabotaging the place and there's a ranch hand who's totally into Nancy and she's all conflicted.

And then they all went to Africa that one time.

Nancy Drew for President! Is there anything she can't do? Except fight, of course. She never kicked anyone's ass. She was too "ladylike" I guess.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Well, Nancy was a bit before the days of girls who kicked their own ass. She had a brain, though. Generally.

[havocthecat]

I think they redid her in the eighties to have some kind of karate ability?

But yeah, I read Nancy when there was no asskicking of her own. Ned was her brawn, but he was kind of boring brawn.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I think she's supposed to have a black belt in the ND Files. I... don't actually know, and can't check since I wasn't ever planning on reading them again and, ah, gave them to Goodwill.

[havocthecat]

Yeah, well, I sold off all of mine at a garage sale when I was about 11--Cherry Ames, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Bobbsey Twins, Vicki Vale (omg mystery solving airline stewardess!), Dana Girls, Trixie Belden, and all the other assorted mystery solving teen type books.

I, ah, called Mom and am having her buy copies for me when she sees them around places used. *sheepish*

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

One of the book-of-the-month clubs is reissuing the first 4 Cherry Ames books in nice HC editions for a pretty decent price.

DV

[havocthecat]

Oh, I hate you! But I hate you in the good kind of way. I had *all* of those.

[daisycm83.livejournal.com]

Nancy! Foiling evil plans WITH PERFECT HAIR!!!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Always! And her perfect, titian-colored hair, at that.

[stacyx.livejournal.com]

I loved Nancy Drew. I think George was my favorite character in the books.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I liked George, but I always wanted to have red hair...

[havocthecat]

Obviously, this means I need to pay my library fine so I can go get Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books to reread.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Always a good plan. ;)

[havocthecat]

Just paying the library fine is a good plan, really. But, yes, if I'm going to write Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys fic, I need to actually reread some of the books. (God, I'm a sucker for a good fic challenge.)

[musicforcylons.livejournal.com]

I don't remember enough about Nancy Drew to fic, but I was totally with the ditching Ned for Frank. I mean, come on! Nancy/Ned was the most boring thing ever!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Whoot! My problem was always that Ned... didn't support her being a detective and thought it was just a phase she was going through.

[havocthecat]

You'd think he was too young to be that much of a paternalistic son of a bitch, but no, not so much.

[amykay73.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...I apparently stopped reading Nancy Drew too soon. I remember Nancy with Ned and they totally were a yawn-inducing couple. However, I am intridgued by this Nancy/Frank combination. I think I need to check out a few books out of the library.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

It's the ND/Hardy Boys Super Adventures, or something, that you wanna get. One of them has them at a ski resort.

[wabbitseason.livejournal.com]

I still remember the story set at a Renaissance faire. I think I kept that one because of it. I got rid of most of my Nancy Drews and related books, although I kept my Susan Sand, dammit. She might be a ripoff, but she was a good one.

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

There's a ton of them, most available on amazon for not a lot.

DV

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

amykay73 led me here - can I play? Please? I even have an icon appropriate for the contest.

DV

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Ack! Yes, totally. (I am behind on remembering to answer people)

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I have added you to my f-list, as I see we also share surrealphantast.

Off to plot!

DV