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Other Hardy Boys Series Discussion => Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers => Topic started by: Lola on February 12, 2007, 08:54:36 PM

Title: #14 Hazed
Post by: Lola on February 12, 2007, 08:54:36 PM
This was much better than #13!!! The storyline.....Frank and Joe's interaction!  Although it seems that Joe hair color has changed!

QuoteHe nodded towards a short boy with light brown hair about the color of Joe's.

What happened to my blonde Joe Hardy!!??!! ???

Lola
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: hardy-boys.com on March 14, 2007, 12:56:29 PM
I can't find this one in any of my bookstores, just #13. :(  I'm hoping that it's because it's been bought by someone, and not just because the stores won't order it!!!
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Lola on March 18, 2007, 11:52:50 AM
I can never find any of the UB books at the bookstore! I have to order them online!
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Made2LuvU on June 03, 2007, 12:54:02 AM
I loved this book!
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Rottweiler7692 on June 17, 2007, 04:09:57 PM
I just read this one yesterday.  I got it from the library.  It was okay but not especially good.  "Aunt Trudy" is just soo not Aunt Gertrude from the other books.  It really bugs me.
I just noticed that it had a lot of violence for a childrens book.  Does anyone else think that or is it just me? 
My fav part was at the beginning of chapter 4 when Frank didn't care about which bed he got but took the bed that Joe wanted just to give him a hard time.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Centrion on September 26, 2007, 07:18:36 PM
Hmm, not bad. I didn't like the ending too much. Too much violence.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Olivia on November 25, 2007, 07:02:47 PM
I didn't like the storyline period, so that had a factor in how much I liked it ;)

I still find it kind of weird how the books describe the mission video they're watching. Obviously I can follow along, but in my opinion, it's just really weird, especially this one. Never mind, it's hard to explain what I'm thinking. Hah.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Centrion on November 27, 2007, 06:13:55 PM
Yeah, don't you hate it when you want to explain something but cant think of the words.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: 003Robin457 on January 19, 2009, 11:18:05 AM
Quote from: Lola on February 12, 2007, 08:54:36 PM
This was much better than #13!!! The storyline.....Frank and Joe's interaction!  Although it seems that Joe hair color has changed!

What happened to my blonde Joe Hardy!!??!! ???

Lola

What they where trying to say was that the guys hair was so light brown that it was almost blond like Joe's.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: 4567TME on October 31, 2009, 02:18:47 PM
SEE BELOW FOR FINAL RATING!!!
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Bigfootman on November 10, 2009, 07:35:44 AM
This book is horrible! The plot is amazenly boring, when action does happen it is too short, and the bad guy is lame!

2 out of 10
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: 4567TME on November 19, 2009, 06:55:19 PM
I'm going to re-rate it:

4.6
Poor
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Man on November 22, 2009, 04:16:11 PM
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on November 10, 2009, 07:35:44 AM
This book is horrible! The plot is amazenly boring, when action does happen it is too short, and the bad guy is lame!
2 out of 10
I understand completely. I mean, how dumb is a story about a group of jealous fraternity members that accidentally killed someone? How obvious is that? Can you say, "Jump the shark."?
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: tomswift2002 on November 22, 2009, 07:21:04 PM
Quote from: Hardy Man on November 22, 2009, 04:16:11 PM
I understand completely. I mean, how dumb is a story about a group of jealous fraternity members that accidentally killed someone? How obvious is that? Can you say, "Jump the shark."?

Actually the series "Jumped The Shark" back at book #5 Rocky Road.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Man on November 23, 2009, 09:17:13 PM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on November 22, 2009, 07:21:04 PM
Actually the series "Jumped The Shark" back at book #5 Rocky Road.
I agree with you completely. I think that #5 definitely marked a change in the UBs. No more would the books actually contain a decently thought out plot with a villain that a boy couldn't see coming. No longer would the page count be higher than Joe's IQ. No more would the ending actually be... dare I say it... climactic. In other words, #5 was the last decent Hardy Boy book published. Hey, I guess that means it should be a collector's item or something.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: SDLagent on November 24, 2009, 10:54:42 PM
I'd say there have been some decent Hardy Boys books since Rockey Road, but, yeah, not very many. It's sad that I'm enjoying the 80-something page graphic novels more then the actual novels, which I haven't read since Double Down (which I still haven't finished).
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Man on November 25, 2009, 10:37:34 PM
Name five. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :):) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) ::) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :):) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: SDLagent on November 26, 2009, 07:49:54 PM
Wanted, Death and Diamonds, Pushed, Comic Con Artist. I don't actually remember much about the plot lines, just that I enjoyed them at the time...so they weren't really memorable (except for Wanted) and I'd take almost any Casefile over most of these, but they were fun reads and fairly decent novels, IMO.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Man on November 26, 2009, 08:31:09 PM
I guess. And I sort of have to retract my statement about #5 being the last decent one. There were a few decent ones after that. But, mind you that does not mean that I'm going to go near one of those crud heaps anytime soon.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: tomswift2002 on November 26, 2009, 09:43:30 PM
Quote from: SDLagent on November 26, 2009, 07:49:54 PM
Wanted, Death and Diamonds, Pushed, Comic Con Artist. I don't actually remember much about the plot lines, just that I enjoyed them at the time...so they weren't really memorable (except for Wanted) and I'd take almost any Casefile over most of these, but they were fun reads and fairly decent novels, IMO.

Wanted is probably the best book going in this series that really needs to be put into the out-of-print listings.  Comic Con Artist was better than most (and considering how many chapters and pages it had, I sort of wonder if it was intended to be the 3rd Super Mystery before S&S announced Haunted) UB's, while Death And Diamonds...aside from Collig and Riley being in the story and the theft of diamonds from a model or two, the plot has really just faded out of existence.  Pushed is still right where I left it two years ago: bookmark is still at the beginning of Chapter 6.  I'm surprised that I managed to get that poll about Joe stealing something and which chapter it occurred in, since I haven't read that far into the book, and even with that guess I'm not going to read any farther.  Pushed was a book that was pushed to market that wasn't even ready to pushed to market or to be pushed anywhere, but the recycling bin.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: SDLagent on November 27, 2009, 01:10:01 AM
Quote from: Santa Claus on November 26, 2009, 09:43:30 PM
Pushed is still right where I left it two years ago: bookmark is still at the beginning of Chapter 6.  I'm surprised that I managed to get that poll about Joe stealing something and which chapter it occurred in, since I haven't read that far into the book, and even with that guess I'm not going to read any farther.  Pushed was a book that was pushed to market that wasn't even ready to pushed to market or to be pushed anywhere, but the recycling bin.

Well, I don't remember enough about to really be able to defend it, but I remember I did enjoy when I read it two years ago (wow, is it really two years?).
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: tomswift2002 on November 27, 2009, 08:47:25 AM
Quote from: SDLagent on November 27, 2009, 01:10:01 AM
Well, I don't remember enough about to really be able to defend it, but I remember I did enjoy when I read it two years ago (wow, is it really two years?).


September 2007 was when Pushed was released.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Bigfootman on November 28, 2009, 11:51:32 AM
Rocky Road was anything but decent, it had the re-reformating mission disks, repeating clifhangers, and death by ice cream.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Man on February 04, 2010, 09:34:49 PM
I understand where you're coming from, but what I'm saying is that, thought the book might not have been the best read or the most entertaining, it certainly marked the end of an era. The era of the digests and digest-like books. Up until that book, when I read a UB, it reminded me a little of the digests, in an obscure and semi-weird way. After #5, I began to see myself increasingly drifting away from UBs and UB material. Sure, there were other Ubs that were decent, as SDLagent pointed out, but they were never released back to back to back to back, like the first five UBs were. Instead, I might have to slog my way though three or four trash heaps in disguise before I hit one that was worth reading. There. I hope that cleared things up a little...

Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: SDLagent on February 05, 2010, 03:23:45 PM
Quote from: Hardy Man on February 04, 2010, 09:34:49 PM
I understand where you're coming from, but what I'm saying is that, thought the book might not have been the best read or the most entertaining, it certainly marked the end of an era. The era of the digests and digest-like books. Up until that book, when I read a UB, it reminded me a little of the digests, in an obscure and semi-weird way. After #5, I began to see myself increasingly drifting away from UBs and UB material. Sure, there were other Ubs that were decent, as SDLagent pointed out, but they were never released back to back to back to back, like the first five UBs were. Instead, I might have to slog my way though three or four trash heaps in disguise before I hit one that was worth reading. There. I hope that cleared things up a little...

Quoted for truth.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: tomswift2002 on February 05, 2010, 07:25:01 PM
Quote from: Hardy Man on February 04, 2010, 09:34:49 PM
I understand where you're coming from, but what I'm saying is that, thought the book might not have been the best read or the most entertaining, it certainly marked the end of an era. The era of the digests and digest-like books. Up until that book, when I read a UB, it reminded me a little of the digests, in an obscure and semi-weird way. After #5, I began to see myself increasingly drifting away from UBs and UB material. Sure, there were other Ubs that were decent, as SDLagent pointed out, but they were never released back to back to back to back, like the first five UBs were. Instead, I might have to slog my way though three or four trash heaps in disguise before I hit one that was worth reading. There. I hope that cleared things up a little...



I think that in the beginning of the UB's S&S was trying to make them a continuation of the Hardy Boys Originals/Digests, but then for quite a while, starting with #5, the continuity of the series seemed to get restarted in each book.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Mrs. Nick Jonas on February 27, 2011, 02:07:14 AM
The Undercover Brothers series are my favorite personally (& yes, I HAVE read a Casefile which was awesome & I hope to be able to read more). But in the U.B. series I think that you get inside their heads more. It feels like there's more brotherly interaction. I think that its more interesting. I don't mean any offence to anyone who doesn't like it, I'm just saying that I think that this series is very awesome.

Yet above all of the Hardy Boys books/series made over time I think that a few fan-fiction stories that I've read about them beat them all.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Boys UB Fan on February 27, 2011, 02:36:55 PM
Another UB Fan.  ;D ;) Welcome! :) I love the UB's! ;D
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: MacGyver on February 27, 2011, 02:49:16 PM
Welcome, Mrs. Nick Jonas - wow, interesting user name. Does Nick know about this? ;D
   Always cool to have another fan of The Hardy Boys joining the boards here, no matter what series is your favorite. Though I would suggest reading some of the Originals and Digests along with the Casefiles for comparison with the Undercover Brothers books. But they're all good in their own ways.  :)
     By the way- I love that C.S. Lewis quote in your signature. As a Christian myself, C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite writers and a Christian hero to me.  8)
       
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Mrs. Nick Jonas on February 28, 2011, 12:27:13 AM
Thanks guys for the welcome! And LOL- I sure wish that Nick knew! =D

I have read a few of the originals and enjoyed them a lot! Though it seems to me that in the originals they focus too much on the case and skip over the family or emotional scenes. I don't think that I've read any of the digests yet. I'll have to see if they have any at my library.

I really like your signature as well! I think that C.S. Lewis really is an inspiration.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: MacGyver on February 28, 2011, 09:28:35 AM
QuoteI really like your signature as well! I think that C.S. Lewis really is an inspiration.
Thanks. John 14:6 is one of my favorite Bible verses. :)

QuoteI have read a few of the originals and enjoyed them a lot! Though it seems to me that in the originals they focus too much on the case and skip over the family or emotional scenes. I don't think that I've read any of the digests yet. I'll have to see if they have any at my library.
Interesting perspective. So do you think the UB books put more of an emphasis or family and relationships than the originals? To be fair, the books are primarily written to be mysteries with an emphasis on action, so it seems natural that the books would mostly focus on the case at hand. But even in the originals, there are some scenes with the family and some relationship scenes and emotional scenes- but I would agree that they are not very prevalent.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Boys UB Fan on February 28, 2011, 09:39:37 AM
Quote from: MacGyver on February 28, 2011, 09:28:35 AM
Interesting perspective. So do you think the UB books put more of an emphasis or family and relationships than the originals? To be fair, the books are primarily written to be mysteries with an emphasis on action, so it seems natural that the books would mostly focus on the case at hand. But even in the originals, there are some scenes with the family and some relationship scenes and emotional scenes- but I would agree that they are not very prevalent.

I agree with her.  ;D
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Mrs. Nick Jonas on March 01, 2011, 01:52:11 AM
I would say that the small things make a huge difference to me in the books. It seems to me that in the UB books it describes more about how they feel toward each other. For instance, in the originals, they might say that one of the brothers were worried about the other or that they feared for their life. In the UB books however it tells you what that means, how they really feel. I'm a writer, so every single racing heart adds to the big picture to me.

But maybe I'm still getting over how in The Shore Road Mystery when Frank has to take his younger bro to the hospital it just stated what happened, & didn't show it. The main reason why I read that book was because I heard that Joe had to go to the hospital, LOL! Still glad that I read it though! It was kewl.

Could you tell me what original books have an emotional scene in them? I'd love to read any Hardy Boy book that has emotion in it!
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: MacGyver on March 01, 2011, 04:36:17 PM
I will have to think on that and get back to you- I feel pretty sure there are some good examples out there, but it's been a while since I've read some of the original books. And The Shore Road Mystery is definitely a good one. :)
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: tomswift2002 on March 03, 2011, 06:30:56 PM
Quote from: Mrs. Nick Jonas on March 01, 2011, 01:52:11 AM
Could you tell me what original books have an emotional scene in them? I'd love to read any Hardy Boy book that has emotion in it!

You should check out The House On The Cliff then, since there's a couple of pretty emotional scenes in that book.
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Boys UB Fan on March 03, 2011, 06:34:53 PM
What about The Hardy Boys Casefiles, No. 2 and No. 10?
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Mrs. Nick Jonas on March 04, 2011, 11:49:58 PM
Thanks for the suggestions!  :D
Title: Re: #14 Hazed
Post by: Hardy Boys UB Fan on March 06, 2011, 05:03:01 PM
Quote from: Mrs. Nick Jonas on March 04, 2011, 11:49:58 PM
Thanks for the suggestions!  :D

No problem.  ;D 8)