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Title: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on December 03, 2008, 06:05:26 PM
Post your list of what you consider to be the worst casefiles, and post the reasons. You also post books that meny people think are the worst but are not that bad, agian post your reasons!

Worst

Cold Sweat:
Chet was a HUGE jerk in this one, making me not feel sorry for Chet when he gets sent to the hospital. Also, the book lacked action and half of the clifhangers were talking.

Toxic Revenge:
Boring, and there is barly any action. Plus, the main bad guy gives up without a fight. In fact the preview page accutily comes form the end of the book before the Hardys confront the main bad guy.

Dead Man In Deadwood:
Sadly, the cool scene on the cover neaver happens in the book. It's a good bedtime story because you will fall asleep while reading it! Basicly, someone gets get killed, there is a bunch of talking, and the reader dies of boredom!

Shock Jock:
A very boring book. The gang is arested halfway through the book, distorying all chance of action, and all the bad person does to the Hardys is make them ride in the car.

Mission Myhem:
This isn't even a casefile, this is a digest packiged as a Casefile. It as no action whatsoever.

Books that are thought to be bad but arn't:

Cave Trap:
I picked up Cave Trap because it was siad to be the worst book ever, but it wasn't. The Hardys find themselfves in a lot of action, and get in some major fights. The book isn't boring at all, and there is quite a few casefiles worse then it.

Acting Up:
It's an awsome book. Despite the fact that there isn't a murder, it makes up for it with lot's of action.



Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on December 03, 2008, 09:14:26 PM
http://www.hardyboyscasefiles.com/forums/index.php?topic=817.0

Here are my top 5 worst Casefiles:

Cave Trap: Extremely long and boring story.  Absolutely no action and the plot was really pointless.  Where was the case?  It is surprising that this was one of four Casefiles reprinted in the UK as Undercover Brother titles, but I guess that it goes to show that even S&S UK considers the book to be as bad as the Undercover Brothers series.

Survical of the Fittest: I rate this story at the same ranking on my posts in the Top Ten Casefiles discussion: #121 (I listed the two trilogies as one story).  Again, the plot was very weak and it was drawn out to the point where it just got pointless and you were left wondering what exactly it was that had sent the Hardys out on this case after only 10-15 pages.  There was absolutely no action in this story.  The Hardys get stranded in the desert and have to fight for survival.  Also, from all the copies I've seen, apparently no one at the S&S printing place cared about the book because every single copy has the spine lettering slanted and angling towards the front cover.  Was there even a case in this book?

Deadfall:  I don't think the author had much stamina in this book.  This is one of the rare books within the first 66 volumes of the Casefiles that is actually considered the worst of the worst.  The Hardys are trying to solve the murder of a political activist, and really get nowhere fast.

Cliff-Hanger: The Hardys go to the Himalayas and climb an iceberg.  Absolutely no action and was there even a case in this book?  And the cover didn't exactly added to the story, although that is the only colorful thing in the whole book.

Deadman In Deadwood: This book was suppose to be the immediate follow-up to Virtual Villainy, but it didn't live up to the action in the previous book (infact the Hardys are heading home from San Francisco and are passing through Deadwood in this book).  What exactly was the mystery?  I remember the Hardys ending up at an old Indian burial place, but otherwise the story was pretty forgettable.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on December 04, 2008, 05:06:50 PM
As I said, I didn't find Cave Trap that bad at all, but then again, 2 books from your top thrwity are on my worst list.  I really don't think Cave Trap is really as bad as you say it is. I found the case easy to follow, and in my opion it was far from boring, however diffrent people have diffrent ideas on what is good.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on December 04, 2008, 07:14:38 PM
The majority of Hardy Boys fans consider Cave Trap to be one of the two all-time worst books in the Casefiles series and the Hardy Boys series in general.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on December 05, 2008, 06:52:35 AM
I'm not calling it the best book ever, it would be right after flesh and blood neer the worst books. However, I've read a lot worse, a lot worse. To tell the truth, I could understand everything, and it only took be an hour to read. I not planning to read it agian, but I'd give it a 5 out of ten. Rocky Road is also considered to be the worst, yet (not counting ATAC fans) one network fan acttuly liked the book.

Just asking, how long ago since you read Cave Trap? Cause the case was quite obvous, they were trying to ffind out who was trying to sabbotoge the expdiction.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: 003Robin457 on December 05, 2008, 08:59:45 PM
I want to check Ebay for the Hybrib version of Cave Trap.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on December 06, 2008, 06:15:50 PM
Quote from: 003Robin457 on December 05, 2008, 08:59:45 PM
I want to check Ebay for the Hybrib version of Cave Trap.

Just look for it on Amazon.co.uk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cave-Trap-Hardy-Franklin-Dixon/dp/1416925848/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228608916&sr=8-3
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on December 11, 2008, 05:17:27 PM
Opps, I forgot a Worst book:
Street Spies: A boring book with almost no action= pointless junk. Read Danger Zone intead.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on December 18, 2008, 07:43:02 PM
''Street Spies'' is quite good, in my opinion.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on December 26, 2008, 06:43:08 AM
I would not mind street spies, if it hadn't been for Danger zone. Danger Zone was awsome, and had lot's of action. So Street Apies should have been the same. It wasn't, it was boring.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on December 26, 2008, 04:06:55 PM
I don't get why ''Danger Zone'' and ''Street Spies'' "should have been the same".
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on December 28, 2008, 11:03:14 AM
Quote from: SDLagent on December 26, 2008, 04:06:55 PM
I don't get why ''Danger Zone'' and ''Street Spies'' "should have been the same".
I mean action wise. Danger Zone was awsome action wise, but Street spies was boring, with way too much long talking sences. Street spoes should have had a lot of action, like Danger zone.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on December 29, 2008, 05:05:56 PM
But why are you even connecting ''Danger Zone'' and ''Street Spies''? I mean they're both Casefiles but...
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on December 30, 2008, 06:37:06 AM
Quote from: SDLagent on December 29, 2008, 05:05:56 PM
But why are you even connecting ''Danger Zone'' and ''Street Spies''? I mean they're both Casefiles but...
They both have MUX in them!
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Olivia on January 10, 2009, 01:56:16 AM
I thought Street Spies was good, but I don't remember how much talking there was or if the pacing was bad or not.

Some cases are like that though. In real life, lots of investigations run that way. Not everything is action-packed.

But this is fiction/entertainment I guess.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on January 12, 2009, 06:07:54 PM
Quote from: Blondie on January 10, 2009, 01:56:16 AM

Some cases are like that though. In real life, lots of investigations run that way. Not everything is action-packed.



Well, considering that Casefiles are SUPPOSED to have action, Street Spies should at least have some fistfights. But it does not until the end, and there is very little action before that. However, it barly makes it on to my worst casefile list, and if it wasn't for the the fact that the only other book that had MUX was awsome, it would not be on my list.

Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on January 13, 2009, 07:12:45 PM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on December 03, 2008, 09:14:26 PM

Deadman In Deadwood: This book was suppose to be the immediate follow-up to Virtual Villainy, but it didn't live up to the action in the previous book (infact the Hardys are heading home from San Francisco and are passing through Deadwood in this book).  What exactly was the mystery?  I remember the Hardys ending up at an old Indian burial place, but otherwise the story was pretty forgettable.

Basicly, a guy gets murdered and the Hardy's just talk and talk, and talk some ore.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Olivia on January 15, 2009, 08:03:44 PM
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on January 12, 2009, 06:07:54 PM
Well, considering that Casefiles are SUPPOSED to have action, Street Spies should at least have some fistfights. But it does not until the end, and there is very little action before that. However, it barly makes it on to my worst casefile list, and if it wasn't for the the fact that the only other book that had MUX was awsome, it would not be on my list.

Very good point. At least with the ND Files, less action/violence is (for lack of a better term) more acceptable compared to the Casefiles.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on January 17, 2009, 06:38:10 AM
No, I have found the worst one ever:

Survival Of The Fittest

Not only is the cover messed up, so is the story. Basicly, they are after a kid, but magicly, all their suspects appear out of nowhere and join them, leaving the most obvous one.

Not only that, but the frayed rope that started the case turned out to be an accident!  :o

Unlike Cave Trap, the only action this has is a gunfight between people with no idea how to aim weapons.

If that wasn't enough, half of the book is them in the hospital, and the other half is them being bored to death in the desert.

This is defently the worst Hardy Boys book ever.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on January 17, 2009, 11:29:37 AM
I consider both Cave Trap & Survival Of The Fittest to be the worst Casfiles of all-time. 

As for worst Hardy Boys book of All-Time, that would have to go to the Undercover Brothers book Pushed.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on January 17, 2009, 07:04:58 PM
I think I'm going to have to reread ''Street Spies''.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on July 04, 2009, 05:19:49 PM
Quote from: tomswift2002 on December 04, 2008, 07:14:38 PM
The majority of Hardy Boys fans consider Cave Trap to be one of the two all-time worst books in the Casefiles series and the Hardy Boys series in general.
Oh realy? Because this thread gives me a diffrent picture:
http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6137
It seems quite a few Hardy Boys fans consider COLD SWEAT, to be one of the all-time worst books in the Casefiles series, not Cave Trap. Not that I'm acusing you of lieing, but could you please direct me to the website where this majority has decided that Cave Trap is one of the worst, because:
a) "We did our own POLL Here (not just one person's opinion) and Cold Sweat was voted the worst of the worst."
"I haven't read Cold Sweat, but I liked Cave Trap"
"Hmm... I loved Cave Trap, so, neener, neener! (said in best twelve-year-old fashion... I vaguely remember being twelve once upon a time)
And I actually do remember the plot of it - and the 'spelunking for no reason' isn't true - they were searching for something in their spelunking!"
b) http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8025
http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7985
http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7922
http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7787 http://www.hardydetectiveagency.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7623
Seems to me, that a lot of Hardy boys fans think Cold Sweat is the worst, along with Choke Hold.
c) Many HB fans probaly never read Cave Trap, as much HB fans only know that the Bluespines exist, others consider all casefiles to be awfull.
d) The majority of Hardy Boys fans that would even KNOW that Cave Trap existed think that most of the UBs are the worst HB books of all time, not Cave Trap.

You are making me a little puzzled, as it would seem that the majority of HB fans have not read Cave Trap, as the sad truth is that most HB fans that I have meet don't even know the Casefiles existed, as the Bluespines are the most well known.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: hardygirl847 on November 12, 2009, 02:56:59 PM
Ok...so now I have to go read Cave Trap again because all of this talk about it intrigues me. It's been at least ten years since I read that one.  I also noticed that it has the cover from the 1995 series...which wasn't the greatest in my opinion. Maybe that has something to do with it? Probably not...lol

Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Frankfan94 on September 27, 2010, 07:55:58 PM
Shock Jock, because it's kinda corny.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on September 27, 2010, 09:13:11 PM
What's corny about "Shock Jock"? (other than maybe the title- lol) ;D

It's one of the few Christmas-time stories in The Hardy Boys world. (besides "The Mystery of Cabin Island", "Perfect Getaway", "Foul Play" and the obvious "A Crime for Christmas" and the short story from "Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: Super Sleuths- "The Secret of Mountaintop Inn")
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Mattie on September 29, 2010, 07:12:25 PM
I totally agree with whoever said Cold Sweat sweat was one of the worst
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on September 29, 2010, 10:07:36 PM
What's so bad about "Cold Sweat"? I don't recall a whole lot about it, but I remember Frank and Joe solving a crime revolving around a new gym in Bayport and Chet Morton makes an appearance. I enjoyed it well enough, but I guess I just don't get that passionate about likes and dislikes on these books.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Mattie on September 29, 2010, 10:41:05 PM
Quote from: MacGyver on September 29, 2010, 10:07:36 PM
What's so bad about "Cold Sweat"? I don't recall a whole lot about it, but I remember Frank and Joe solving a crime revolving around a new gym in Bayport and Chet Morton makes an appearance. I enjoyed it well enough, but I guess I just don't get that passionate about likes and dislikes on these books.
well it didnt have alot of action
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on September 30, 2010, 09:51:26 AM
This seems to be a common complaint for some Casefiles. That's interesting to note since from what I've read, the writers were instructed to make near every chapter end on some kind of cliff-hanger type moment. I guess some did it better than others.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Mattie on September 30, 2010, 10:59:56 AM
Yeah but the're not exciting
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on September 30, 2010, 05:35:42 PM
I still think it's all subjective, as it kind of depends on what level of action, danger and excitement each individual visualizes and expects- but fair enough. I think I'd probably have to reread the book before I could really comment on any of Cold Sweat's high and low points.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on October 02, 2010, 07:31:57 AM
Quote from: MacGyver on September 29, 2010, 10:07:36 PM
What's so bad about "Cold Sweat"? I don't recall a whole lot about it, but I remember Frank and Joe solving a crime revolving around a new gym in Bayport and Chet Morton makes an appearance. I enjoyed it well enough, but I guess I just don't get that passionate about likes and dislikes on these books.
Chet and Joe were huge jerks in the book.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on October 02, 2010, 11:13:28 AM
Just in general or toward specific people?...
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on October 02, 2010, 03:07:53 PM
Quote from: MacGyver on October 02, 2010, 11:13:28 AM
Just in general or toward specific people?...
Joe kept on trying to flirt with Chet's girlfreind, even when Chet was right beside her ::) . I don't entrly remember a lot about Chet's appearances in the book, as I read it a long time ago, except that he was mad at Joe for much of the first half at the book, I will admit he had a reason, but it got really annoying. It's been a while since I've read the book.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on October 03, 2010, 12:05:46 AM
Yeah, I haven't read it in a while either, so I don't really remember a whole lot from it. Though you have to admit that Joe hitting on most every woman in sight is pretty much in character with his personality in the Casefiles- lol.  ;D(well, after Iola and before Vanessa, that is.) (Not that that wasn't still lame to be doing, especially with Chet standing right there though.)
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: JoeHardyRocks on January 18, 2011, 02:37:55 PM
I've read Cave Trap and Mission: Mayhem, which are both on this list but I didn't think that they were particularly bad..... I think True Thriller and Dead in the Water were worse than those.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on January 18, 2011, 04:08:38 PM
Really? True Thriller had the Network and the Assasins involved- hard to rate any such book on a bad list. (Well, generally those are some of the coolest ones anyway.) Oh well- as I've said before, I'm not real good at picking favorites and unfavorites. I'm kinda biased being a huge fan of The Hardy Boys and all. ;)
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: JoeHardyRocks on January 18, 2011, 05:19:06 PM
Well last time I read it I stopped halfway through because it was too boring, I read the same half again today, and it's getting better for some reason...
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on January 18, 2011, 05:40:33 PM
Hmm- I don't think I've ever found any of The Hardy Boys books to be boring... oh well- glad you liked it better on the second time around. Some books are like that.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on January 19, 2011, 12:12:55 AM
Quote from: MacGyver on January 18, 2011, 05:40:33 PM
Hmm- I don't think I've ever found any of The Hardy Boys books to be boring... oh well- glad you liked it better on the second time around. Some books are like that.

There's been a few Hardys I haven't finished. Cave Trap was one of them.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on January 19, 2011, 10:40:19 AM
There are very few books I've ever started reading that I never finished. I don't think I can say that for any of The Hardy Boys books. I suppose that's because I'm something of a completist so I wanted to be able to say that I had read all the books in the series. :)
But hey- if you don't like it, you don't have to force yourself to read it. That's okay- to each their own.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on January 19, 2011, 05:09:38 PM
Quote from: SDLagent on January 19, 2011, 12:12:55 AM
There's been a few Hardys I haven't finished. Cave Trap was one of them.

At least I've been able to finish Cave Trap twice, even though it is tied with Survival Of The Fittest for Worst Casefile.  But the only Hardy Boys that I haven't been able to finish are Pushed & Gold Medal Murder from the Undercover Brothers series.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Hardy Boys UB Fan on January 22, 2011, 08:11:03 PM
I didn't care for Blood Sport. ::)
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Mattie on January 22, 2011, 08:37:01 PM
I think that beyond the law, spiked, open season were a little boring
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: hardygirl847 on January 24, 2011, 05:02:27 PM
Quote from: MacGyver on January 18, 2011, 04:08:38 PM
Really? True Thriller had the Network and the Assasins involved- hard to rate any such book on a bad list. (Well, generally those are some of the coolest ones anyway.) Oh well- as I've said before, I'm not real good at picking favorites and unfavorites. I'm kinda biased being a huge fan of The Hardy Boys and all. ;)

I'm the same. I have a hard time picking or putting down any HB Casefile book. UBs are different because they don't follow the older series' rules.

I might be the only one but I liked Cave Trap. Mostly because of the NEAR death experience for my Frank. They kinda dealt with it quickly but still! That was a big deal!

And Joe isn't always a huge flirt or really lame about it. Sometimes it's cute and not super annoying. :) Given his situation in the Casefiles though, he did have a lot to deal with. That's just how he did it. I don't remember him hitting on Chet's gf though...so I will have to read that one.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on January 24, 2011, 08:52:36 PM
QuoteI might be the only one but I liked Cave Trap.
You're not the only one. I like Cave Trap too- but then, I like all of them. :D
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on January 26, 2011, 03:32:46 PM
Peace. Love.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on January 26, 2011, 03:38:32 PM
and Understanding. What's so funny about it? :)
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on January 27, 2011, 06:58:09 PM
Just recently I was reading that when Simon & Schuster UK reprinted Cave Trap and the other Casefiles for inclusion in the Undercover Brothers series, it was because they were finding that in the Commonwealth countries the sales and demand of the UB's were lower than the Casefiles (Simon & Schuster UK had been reprinting the Casefiles, and even bringing out "New" Casefiles to the UK and Commonwealth market till around 2002; "New" meaning Casefiles that had been printed in the US, but not in the UK), unlike in the US where, apparently, the UB's are in "hot demand".  So, even Cave Trap was one of the worst books the Casefiles series, apparently S&S UK thought that it fit the style of the UB's.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on January 27, 2011, 07:08:36 PM
Yeah, that was a strange chapter in Hardy Boys history. I wonder what fans in the UK thought when some books in the new "Undercover Brothers" series were in third person and some were in first person and some had the Hardys working for ATAC and some didn't even mention ATAC and Frank and Joe's personalities were totally different in some books.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on January 27, 2011, 07:27:53 PM
Well, it must not have worked too well, since the last 2 Casefile-reprints were cancelled, and S&S UK stopped printing the series altogether, just relying on imports of the US books.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: hardygirl847 on January 30, 2011, 12:29:39 AM
Probably because it was so darn confusing!

And high five, Mac! I like them all too!
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: Bigfootman on January 30, 2011, 01:07:15 PM
Quote from: SDLagent on January 19, 2011, 12:12:55 AM
There's been a few Hardys I haven't finished. Cave Trap was one of them.
Most of the Hardy Boys books I haven't finished were not left unfinished because I didn't like them, but because of other reasons. 
List of Hardy Boys books I have yet to finish:
The Haunted Fort- Got bored of reading it by the second or third chapter.
The Arctic Patrol Mystery- Stopped reading after it began to read like a travel guide.
The Pentagon Spy- I don't know why, but every time I try to finish the book, I'm unable to. I plan to finish it, one day.
The Demon's Den- The book was due back at the library, didn't have much of a choice.
The Lazarus Plot- Same reason as The Pentagon Spy.
Terror On Track- Book is missing the first page of Chapter 1 (at least I think that's the only missing page) , and I want to read the entire book. 
The Number File- The book was falling apart, but now that I have a new copy that won't fall apart every time I turn a page, I'll be able to read the book.
Haunted- Stopped reading because the book was awful.
Galaxy X- Stopped reading because the book was due back at the library.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on January 30, 2011, 03:14:54 PM
I remember that when I was younger there were some Hardy Boys and Hardy Boys Casefiles that I stopped reading since (this was in the 90's when I was elementary school) some of the books I found were either dealing with stuff that, as a 9 or 10 year old kid, I wasn't interested in, or I found that the book just too slow for a kid at my age then.  Books such as The Mystery of The Flying Express (1941)  and Revenge of the Desert Phantom.  With Flying Express, even about a year after I first put it down and finished reading it, I found that, as a kid, even though I was interested in trains and that, the author either didn't seem to think that the train was important, or the author was having a very slow day when he wrote the book.  And with Revenge Of The Desert Phantom, I first tried reading it when I was 10 or 11, and I remember that while it was fast-paced then...the story just didn't appeal to my age level; but when I read it a few years later when I was 13 or 14 I really enjoyed it and consider it one of my favorite Digests to this day.

But the 2 Hardy Boys books that I have not been able to finish, because they are so awful and boring are Undercover Brothers #18 Pushed and the Super Mystery'07 #4 Gold Medal Murder.   With Pushed, the bookmark's still at the beginning of Chapter 6, where I left it...3 or 4 years ago (I started reading the book shortly after it first came out and I soon put it down for other books) and Gold Medal Murder has the book mark right around the same place.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on January 30, 2011, 07:48:22 PM
Of course, I would still recommend all of The Hardy Boys books- but I think you would particularly enjoy finishing these-
QuoteThe Pentagon Spy- I don't know why, but every time I try to finish the book, I'm unable to. I plan to finish it, one day.
The Demon's Den- The book was due back at the library, didn't have much of a choice.
The Lazarus Plot- Same reason as The Pentagon Spy.
Terror On Track- Book is missing the first page of Chapter 1 (at least I think that's the only missing page) , and I want to read the entire book. 
The Number File- The book was falling apart, but now that I have a new copy that won't fall apart every time I turn a page, I'll be able to read the book.
All very much worth the read. And I can't really speak for those Undercover Brothers books since I haven't read them yet myself.
But the Originals are all worth it, at least to me. I guess it depends on your particular tastes, but I think The Haunted Fort is pretty good. And once you get past the informational part about the North Pole, The Arctic Patrol Mystery does pick up in the action.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: MacGyver on January 30, 2011, 07:53:26 PM
You all might find this funny. I happened to stop in a used book store the other day- and I was checking out their somewhat scant selection of Hardy Boys books. (I did find some of the Original Text books for a good price though- so it was definitely worth it for that.)
But I only saw two of the Casefiles- one was a fairly beat-up ex-library copy of The Dead Season and the other one looked almost brand new. And wouldn't you know it? It was none other than good ol' Cave Trap ;D
I don't normally bother with picking up Casefiles anymore since I have the whole series at this point, but I picked up this book to have the normal printing version. (The other copy I have is a Dollar General reprint version. It's not really much different from any of the normal printings except that it has a red "Dollar General" symbol in the top right hand corner. It's kind of a neat collectible, but nothing to get that excited about.)
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: tomswift2002 on January 31, 2011, 06:29:40 PM
The Casefiles don't usually turn up in used book stores, from what I've seen.  Or if they do, you tend to get a lot of the same number like 1 or 45.
Title: Re: The Worst Casefiles
Post by: SDLagent on January 31, 2011, 10:01:04 PM
Quote from: Dinosaur Dan on January 30, 2011, 01:07:15 PM
Most of the Hardy Boys books I haven't finished were not left unfinished because I didn't like them, but because of other reasons.

You may not have not liked them but can't have liked them that much, either. If you really liked them you wouldn't have lost interest in them.

Quote from: tomswift2002 on January 31, 2011, 06:29:40 PM
The Casefiles don't usually turn up in used book stores, from what I've seen.  Or if they do, you tend to get a lot of the same number like 1 or 45.

Yeah, I almost never see them.