Mystery novels
penny July 6th, 2008
I was telling Ajay this morning, this could very well have been me posting a blog: (taken from Cecilia’s blog in phdcomics.com–Jorge Cham)
literary detectives
I’ve always loved reading mystery novels. The first one I ever read when I was a kid was a book from the “Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators” series, and I was hooked. I couldn’t find any more books in that series in my local bookstores, so I tried the Hardy Boys series (the old blue hard-cover ones) and loved them. I probably read 90% of the books in the series (including the two newer series), all the ones I could get my hands on, at least twice each. (Some people say that all they ever needed to know they learned from Sesame Street. Well, all I ever needed to know, I learned from the Hardy Boys.) Truly, I was addicted. I read a few Nancy Drew books, but they weren’t as much fun as the Hardy Boys ones.Over the years, I also read several Agatha Christie novels, Sherlock Holmes titles and even a couple of Dick Francis books (it took me two books to realize that all his books involved horse racing). I am sure there are others from my childhood that I am forgetting.
Nowadays, I’m reading the Maisie Dobbs series (set in post-WWI London), the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (takes place in present-day Botswana), Inspector Montalbano (set in present-day southern Italy), John Burdett’s Bangkok series (set in the seedy underbelly of present-day Bangkok) and a new series I just discovered, Erast Fandorin. I finished “Murder on the Leviathan” a few days ago and loved it. It’s the third or fourth book in the series, but it’s in the style of Christie, with all the suspects and the detective staying together (on a ship, this time). Fadorin is a Russian diplomat on his way from England to Japan via India in the 1870s when he gets involved in a murder investigation. It was so much fun, I ordered all the other books in the series that I could find on Amazon.
There seem to be a lot more murders in the mystery novels I read now than in the ones I read as a kid. Good writing and clever puzzles, it’s like reading dessert.
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i used to read Hardy boys and Nancy Drew when i was in grade school.
it was something i discovered in the library while waiting for the school bus.
pagdating ng high school… Sweet Valley High at … ano nga ung isa pang series about teen love?
mills & boon?
Sweet dreams hehe. Tapos ng isang afternoon ang isang libro. Parang 100 pesos ang isang pocketbook. Pero never ako bumili kasi maraming mahihiraman! Pero yung Sweet Valley High nag-ipon talaga ako bumili nung mga double jeopardy tsaka yung Saga books. Kaso wala na lahat, mga hindi na naisoli ng humiram hehe. Parang 75 pesos ang ordinary SVH, then 120 yung double, tsaka around 200+ na yung Saga. Na-adik yata ako sa purple dahil sa SVH. Kinukuha ko yung purple art paper pinangbabalot ko ng notebooks, books. =P
Like Cecillia said, everything I need to know I learned from the Hardy Boys. My eldest cousin got me a book club membership where I read most of the hard-bound Nancy Drew books. Kaso, I agree with Cecilia, mas maganda ang Hardy Boys. O mas exciting lang kasi mas action-packed ang kwento ni Frank, Joe, Chet and Biff(?), at tila girly-girly ang themes kay Nancy, Bess and George. Pero bumaduy na pareho dun sa paperbacks tsaka second series.
Agatha Christie, mejo challenging basahin kasi maliliit yung titik. Lalu na yung Perry Mason. Yung Sherlock Holmes nagkaron na ng mga compilations sa National Bookstore/Powerbooks. Fun!
i love sweet valley! sweet dreams ba un may p.s. i love you?
may nancy drew books din ako bigay nila kuya ron ü
haha sikat na sikat ung book #1 ng sweet dreams, yang PS I Love you… must be the first i read that i cried.
SVH, magaling yung writer kasi naiinis talaga ako sa character ni Jessica. sa inis ko, ayaw ko na basahin ung book.