As a long time Hardy Boys fan and a big supporter of the Appalachain Trail I was really looking forward to this. What a letdown. The boys spend about 2 pages of the book on the AT and the entire time they spend whining about how hard it is. The scene quickly shifts to a small town where we get a "mystery" about a stolen armored car. Sure, you could hide an armored car in someones barn with EVERYONE in the town knowing about it and get away with it. The Appalachian Trail is such a perfect setting for a mystery how could it be wasted on this lousy story.

This book wasn't the best Hardy Boys book but the plot was good. If you are a Hardy Boys fan,and looking for another Hardy Boys book to read, read this one. All in all it was an okay book. I liked this book because it had some surprises,and like I said there was a good plot.

I didnt really like this book. I thought that it was too boring and that there could have been quite a bit more action in it. I would not recomend this book to anyone. If you dont like action books you may like this book.

Ethelberta is not a book I would recommend to most people, and certainly not to someone who has never read Hardy. The novel is tediously written and lacks the depth pervasive in other works set in the country. Only in the last hundred or so pages did the story become engrossing. Why then did I continue reading? Deriving some measure of enjoyment from this book requires that the reader look at it as an example of Hardy's development as an author. The scholarly introduction and notes provide explanations that help with this analysis and make the novel more interesting.

I just think that this book did not fit with all the other books in the series. I wasn't thrilled with the first part of the book but did thouroughly enjoy the ending--especially the potato chip part. Maybe the writer could have used a theme other than the circus. Poor Bobo.

A reclusive Japanese business tycoon that Mr. Hardy has been hired to protect, disappears shortly after arriving in the U.S. With their father's reputation tarnished, Frank and Joe set out to find the missing man and to locate a stolen samurai sword that used to belong to the tycoon's family. Not really much to rave about or complain about with this book. A so-so plot and a moderate amount of action. For those who have enjoyed most of the Hardy Boy's books you probably won't find this book a waste of time, but for those who only buy the books that they think that they will like, I wouldn't recommend this one.

i dont know if it were the language or the boring story...
so i cant review this book
(i stoped reading it after like 90 pages)
all i can say is boooring!

Deadly snakes have been stolen from the Bayport Zoo, Dr. Harrod Michaels is the victim of an apparent snakebite and all signs point to the Hardy's friend, Phil Cohen, as the culprit. Fans of the lower volumes would probably not enjoy this book very much. The writing style is very different; it seemed as though every dangerous situation Frank and Joe got into was life threatening, instead of just possibly resulting in injury and they seemed designed more for shock value. The author of this particular book must have completely forgotten about Aunt Gertrude because she was missing from a part in which she should have been included. The plot was so-so, while the clues that Frank and Joe followed were well thought out, the idea for the mystery itself was rather weak. Fans of the current volumes might enjoy this book, but I wouldn't recommend it for fans of the early volumes of the series.

The world of trading, and technical analysis in particular, has advanced significantly since this book was written. Newer, more polished books are now available (e.g. Constance Brown's Technical Analysis for the Trading Professional). The book's illustrations and content are mediocre. After reading a little bit of technical analysis, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you have found the 'Holy Grail', but active traders know that chart patterns can, and do, fail and besides, it sometimes takes days-to-weeks for a complete pattern to evolve - well beyond the time horizon of most short-term traders. My advice for the beginner would be to focus on the newer books (besides Brown, you may start with Jack Schwager's and John Murphy's books), read a lot, keep your mind open, and be aware of the technical pattern over multiple time-frames (daily, weekly, monthly).

Frank and Joe are hired as bodyguards for a college football star who has been plagued by a series of strange accidents. This book is terrible! In my opinion, it is the second worst Hardy Boys book that I have read, which includes all of the hardcovers, original and revised editions, and most of the Wanderer paperbacks. There is no mystery, the plot is boring and the action is almost non-existent. The criminals are some of the worst ever included in a Hardy Boys book (one of them actually cries, yes cries, upon being caught). Even the most die-hard Hardy Boys fan probably wouldn't like this one.

The Hardy Boys stories are supposed to be about mystery. This poorly written effort has no mystery at all. The Hardys are hired to bodyguard a college football star who's been receiving death threats and determine who's behind it all. An inane sub-plot concerning sports gamblers bogs down the lame story. One of the worst Hardy Boys stories I've read, although the series really didn't hit rock bottom until the late 1980's. The Wanderer books, (#59-85) are fairly good (and underrated by many Hardy Boys fans) with some exceptions, "Game Plan" being one of them.

Getting by in Greek: Is very poorly written. The greek words are in a script style that are very difficult to read. The english pronunciation of the words is very limited. I thought I was getting a cassette and ended up with a book. I'm quite disappointed.

The book starts out fine with the English, the phonetic Greek, and the "greek" Greek. Why these books insist on including "greek" Greek is beyond me. Apparently, most sign, menus, etc. in Greece include the phonetic (Roman/Western) spelling of the words. So, unless your prepared to learn another alphabet, this all but useless.

But then after one page, the book leaves out the phonetic spelling until the very end. So one is left turning the book this way and that trying to figure out what the word is.

And owning the tape does not help matters, since it is often hard to hear exactly what sounds are being made.

I gave it one star and I am being charitable...there was no choice for zero.