A Chapter By Chapter review of the book series The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon. New Episodes every Monday!
The boys passionately follow a clue about a "Tre-men -dous" spider.
David and Shaun try to remember what this book was about.
The boys alternate between treasure hunting and looking for their kidnapped friends.
The boys don't die from a grenade.
The boys have a strategy. Then someone throws a hand grenade at them.
This is either a great, bad chapter, or an awful, wonderful chapter. We couldn't decide.
This is an actual chapter from this really, really weird book. It's a mystery told to the boys.... about pilgrims.
The boys discover more than ten mysteries in a chapter drowning in foreshadowing and unnecessary exclamations!
The boys murder several wolves.
The boys wear glasses and virtually disappear.
We compare our classic blue bound 1956 rewrite to the 1928 original version of this book. There are problems.
The thrilling conclusion to the fifth book from the classic series. The boys basically kill someone.
In this penultimate chapter of book 5, the boys kill a wolf.
The boys head North from Lone Pine.
In the worst plot twist yet, the boys discover someone with split personality via amnesia, and someone hears the whole thing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The missing guy was hiding in a cliff. We know this the entire time because of the title of the chapter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Unarmed, the boys pursue an armed criminal into a tunnel. With horses. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The Boys improvise a sting operation and pursue armed criminals unarmed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys watch two people fight and arbitrarily choose one of them to be "the good guy." --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys focus on the wrong thing. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The author misses several opportunities for authentic tension and instead becomes obsessed with a compass. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
At the very end of the chapter, the boys hike Ambush Trail. They are not ambushed. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys make bad decisions underground. They are not stealthy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys learn about guns while the narrator teaches the children readers about guns as well! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys struggle on a roof and trust strangers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys don't really understand what "music" is. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys call BS on a ghost story and then rent horses. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys continue to downplay threats and suspicion. Then their dad tells them to hunt an attempted murderer. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
While this chapter title could describe any Hardy Boys book or chapter, this one is actually more of a boomerang to peril. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys get a call from a stranger. Anytime someone new mentions that strangers, the boys trust them, too. Then they get kidnapped. Obviously. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys almost die, people are shot, cars are wrecked, mysteries abound across the country, and the boys trust several strangers. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This is a bad normal. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
We explore what characteristics make the hottest teeth. Also, relationships. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
We begin to dissect the differences between the 1920's original and the 1960's rewrite of book 4: The Missing Chums. Turns out, they added a LOT, removed a lot, and kept some really weird things. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
I did it. We did it. You did it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
No read-alongs. Just a celebration of another book finished.
The boys ambush the enemy. There are no negative consequences for any of their actions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this penultimate chapter of book 4, Frank seizes control of the Police and the Coast Guard while Joe listens to criminals explaining the details of all of their crimes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys-- especially Joe-- demonstrate their disastrous instincts multiple times and get captured. Again. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys prove their instincts would set themselves up to be awful parents. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys eat several meals to break up the urgency of their kidnapped friends. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys untie themselves while their captor is asleep. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys make their biggest mistake yet, but think it's a triumph of detectiveship. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys continue to vouch for a convicted criminal. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys find a desolate island and profile its inhabitant. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys vouch for a convicted thief. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
We really squander a cool opportunity to shine. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Once again, the boys shrug off good decisions and embrace coincidence. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Unable to learn more, the boys thanked the proprietor and bought three postcards. That sentence is emblematic of this chapter and the entire series as a whole. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
The boys hide a lot for no reason. Then they eat. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
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