Anybody read operation:survival?
I read it, however it's not my favorite. Frank swears, not like in the casefiles where they don't actually say the words, but actually swears.
That was the first and only UB I read and I didn't really care for it.After reading that one I've debated on reading another.
I didn't care for it either :-\
I read it, but thought that it was an awful remake of Deathgame.
Quote from: Light123 on August 04, 2007, 11:35:11 AM
I read it, however it's not my favorite. Frank swears, not like in the casefiles where they don't actually say the words, but actually swears.
Frank swears?
If you want to call it a swear word. It didn't bother me but then I hear it quite a bit. He says D**n.
Quote from: Lola on August 07, 2007, 08:16:47 PM
If you want to call it a swear word. It didn't bother me but then I hear it quite a bit. He says D**n.
That?s not that bad, but the age on the back of the book is 8-12, so I don?t really think they should have it.
Quote from: SDLagent on August 07, 2007, 11:29:17 PM
That?s not that bad, but the age on the back of the book is 8-12, so I don?t really think they should have it.
I agree. I was just watching a Pioneer DVD of the old TV series
Sailor Moon, and that DVD was rated 13+ because there are a couple of times, when you have the subtitles turned on, one of the heroines or bad guys will say "D**n". But it's also rated that due to other things. But if DVD's have a 13+ rating on them because that word, then why is the word showing up in Hardy Boys books that are meant for 8-12 year-olds?
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By the way I thought this book was cool to.
I heard that in one part of the book, Frank says the H E double hockey sticks word.
He does, he just says He__ yeah. It's not bad.
Quote from: HB@1718 on May 25, 2009, 11:29:16 AM
I heard that in one part of the book, Frank says the H E double hockey sticks word.
Did you hear that in an Amazon review? I reamber the a reviewer saying "H E double hockey sticks."
Uh, yeah. I say it too.
Quote from: 003Robin457 on May 25, 2009, 03:09:35 PM
Did you hear that in an Amazon review? I reamber the a reviewer saying "H E double hockey sticks."
I read that review too.
Yeah, when FJA showed it to me she was like "What?!?"
One way or another, it's not very nice.
I was really tempted to say, ''******** isn't nice?''.
Wait, I just did.
But your right The Hardy Boys can do without that.
At least they didn't say a bad word.
Quote from: FrankJoeATAC on May 25, 2009, 06:00:10 PM
I read that review too.
3 of 3 aproval rating. He's doing pretty good.
http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Survival-Hardy-Undercover-Brothers/dp/1416900675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243802651&sr=8-1
Totally.
Quote from: Bunny on August 07, 2007, 11:29:17 PM
That?s not that bad, but the age on the back of the book is 8-12, so I don?t really think they should have it.
Every book is marked "Ages 8-12"!
Quote from: ken10 on August 04, 2009, 01:51:44 PM
Every book is marked "Ages 8-12"!
Every Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew book, since Simon & Schuster made Minstrel Books a defunct publishing arm in December 2001, has been marked "Ages 8-12".
Really the only books that have never had an "Age" or "Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level" mark on them have been the Original 59 (including the Revised Texts). Now then they continued that tradition of not marking the books onto the Wanderer books, but then when Wanderer was discontinued, and the series switched to Minstrel, that was when the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level was introduced on the back of the books.
The
Casefiles featured the Reading Level on the copyright page. At the bottom of the page it will say "RL: 7+", which meant "Reading Level: Grade 7 and up".
Yeah, it always says 8-12, but some of us are way older than that and we still read them. Right?
I'm nearly 16 and I read them.
See? It's a series for ALL ages, despite the 8-12.