Ladies, Nancy Drew had a huge impact on me.

[Raven]

How about you...or those of you old enough to remember her mysteries. I read every book and being the only girl among brothers and cousins, growing up in the 50's, it gave me the sense that girls were smart and could do whatever they put their minds to. Apparently there's a Nancy Drew series starting on HBO.

[Fredda Weinberg]

1. And I grew up on Encyclopedia Brown. Never got into gender roles n/t

[Lil Missy]

17. Oh gawd! I LOVED Encyclopedia Brown!

That really ages me too. And you too, you old broad!

[Fredda Weinberg]

29. Who you callin' old? Just turned 48 but mistaken for 35 by a pair of

potential suitors on my birthday. What a hoot not to be taken for 25 anymore!!!

I found my copies in the library ... don't know how old they were and didn't care. We didn't have enough food back then and books are nutritious.

Maybe I'm not the only person to have read the Mary Poppins stories? They are such dark things ... when I finally saw the Disney version I felt so much of the purpose had been lost: to prepare children for the social facade that would forever color every aspect of life, not just the spooky bank board room.

[Bucky]

2. If it's on HBO, it'll probably feature gratuitous nudity and plenteous F-bombs

Finally, Nancy Drew as she was intended to be portrayed!

<== Nancy works the pole to solve another mystery!

[MorningGlow]

3. Nancy Drew was a hero for me

I read the bastardized versions in the '60s and '70s but it didn't matter to me--she was still a smart chick who could solve mysteries--what's not to love? (I did eventually get my hands on the older, longer versions of the books at my local library.)

[NV Whino]

4. I loved the Nancy Drew books

Wish I had kept them.

[yellowdogintexas]

5. I read the OLD ones, the same ones my mom read when she was a girl. I still

have about 5 of them which one of my younger cousins had borrowed and never returned to me...my aunt gave them back to me not too long ago. I used to go to the library and check out a bunch of them at a time..it was an old library in a small town, and these were OLD copies. It was fun!
I read the old original Bobbsey Twins too

[DarkTirade]

6. What, only girls were allowed to read 'em?

I read Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, The Three Investigators, all those mystery books.

[Raven]

7. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to exclude you. I didn't know any boys at

the time who read them. Maybe they didn't want to admit it! I also read the Hardy Boys but I never heard of "Encyclopedia Brown" or the other books you mentioned.

[DarkTirade]

9. The last two were more recent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia_Brown">Encyclopedia Brown and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Investigators">The Three Investigators were a bit more recent, they both started in the 60s. As far as I know, Encyclopedia Brown books are still coming out.

But yeah, I started reading Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew when I was still in elementary school.

[krispos42]

27. My brotha from another motha...

Me too! :D

Ever read the "Trixie Belden" books? My mom got an entire carboard box full of them from a church or yard sale or something and I liked reading those as well.

I even read a few Tom Swift Junior books, and I picked up an original Tom Swift book from the 1910's or so about a year ago.

[PassingFair]

8. I was more into "Trixie Belden"

She was kind of butch. I LOVED her!

[Maine-ah]

18. heh, I read those too

in addtion to the Nancy Drews that had belonged to my mother (which now I get to pass to my daughter) and all of the Hardy Boys.

[Orsino]

10. My mom loved 'em, and so did my wife.

My wife plays those puzzle games from Her Interactive.

I did the Tom Swift, Jr. stuff and the Three Investigators more than the Hardy Boys.

[khashka]

11. Nancy wasn't my thing

but I read 'em. Wow! Girls as intelligent beings? Smart, brave and able to figure things out? Revolutionary!

OK, I was a little kid - But as much as The Femine Mystique or The Second Sex or Against Our Will - they helped make me a feminist.

And that's a good thing, right?



Khash.

[joneschick]

12. I read my mom's Judy Bolton series

and discovered Nancy Drew rather later. :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

13. Cherry Ames all the way for me. I was going to be a nurse when

I grew up because of her.



I liked her better than Sue Barton Student Nurse because she looked like me.

[DemReadingDU]

14. I loved Nancy Drew too

My daughter, now in her early 30's, loved to read the same books. They are in the attic waiting for granddaughter. She is only 1. But they will be waiting for her to read in a few years!

[LostinVA]

15. OOOO -- I hope it's good

There's never been a proper Nancy Drew potrayal.

I loved her -- I still have all of the old yellowback editions, and a couple first editions I picked up at yard sales.

Nancy was so COOL.

[RubyDuby in GA]

16. I absolutely loved them and still do.

I try to add to my collection every few months or so from eBay.

[quiet.american]

19. Oh yes! Thanks for the memories. Absolutely loved those books! nt

[applegrove]

20. I read a few of her books. Liked her character. But she was always wearing

"pumps" and I couldn't figure out what pumps were. I'd never heard that before. Sounded kinda dirty.

[astral]

21. I liked the Judy Bolton ones better

than Nancy Drew, but now I can't remember why. I read all the ones in our local library. Then I graduated to Sherlock Holmes, and read all THOSE ones in our local library too . . .

[joneschick]

23. and her friend Honey

and Horace, who saved the town. and what about Arthur? :hi:

[Patsy Stone]

22. me too!

I wanted a convertible so badly, and I couldn't even drive yet.

[tigereye]

24. read many of those

also The Hardy Boys, The Happy Holisters - all of those series.


But Nancy Drews were special for their investigative, spunky heroine...

[Ava]

25. i read the books when i was little

i read one after the other.. i went through a stage where i was obsessed with them!

[kath]

26. Are you a Veronica Mars fan as well?

There was a great scene in a VM episode where Veronica and her dad are on a case and he says "I'm Carson Drew, and this is my daughter Nancy". Loved the reference!

[XemaSab]

28. I wanted to be one of the Three Investigators

:D