A Chapter By Chapter review of the book series The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon. New Episodes every Monday!
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David and Shaun try to remember what this book was about.
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The boys alternate between treasure hunting and looking for their kidnapped friends.
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The boys don't die from a grenade.
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The boys have a strategy. Then someone throws a hand grenade at them.
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This is either a great, bad chapter, or an awful, wonderful chapter. We couldn't decide.
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This is an actual chapter from this really, really weird book. It's a mystery told to the boys.... about pilgrims.
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The police receive a tip-off.
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The boys discover more than ten mysteries in a chapter drowning in foreshadowing and unnecessary exclamations!
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The boys murder several wolves.
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The boys wear glasses and virtually disappear.
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We compare our classic blue bound 1956 rewrite to the 1928 original version of this book. There are problems.
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The thrilling conclusion to the fifth book from the classic series. The boys basically kill someone.
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In this penultimate chapter of book 5, the boys kill a wolf.
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The boys head North from Lone Pine.
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In the worst plot twist yet, the boys discover someone with split personality via amnesia, and someone hears the whole thing.
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The missing guy was hiding in a cliff. We know this the entire time because of the title of the chapter.
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Unarmed, the boys pursue an armed criminal into a tunnel. With horses.
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The Boys improvise a sting operation and pursue armed criminals unarmed.
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The boys watch two people fight and arbitrarily choose one of them to be "the good guy."
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The boys focus on the wrong thing.
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The author misses several opportunities for authentic tension and instead becomes obsessed with a compass.
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At the very end of the chapter, the boys hike Ambush Trail. They are not ambushed.
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The boys make bad decisions underground. They are not stealthy.
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The boys learn about guns while the narrator teaches the children readers about guns as well!
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The boys struggle on a roof and trust strangers.
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The boys don't really understand what "music" is.
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The boys call BS on a ghost story and then rent horses.
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The boys continue to downplay threats and suspicion. Then their dad tells them to hunt an attempted murderer.
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While this chapter title could describe any Hardy Boys book or chapter, this one is actually more of a boomerang to peril.
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The boys get a call from a stranger. Anytime someone new mentions that strangers, the boys trust them, too. Then they get kidnapped. Obviously.
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The boys almost die, people are shot, cars are wrecked, mysteries abound across the country, and the boys trust several strangers.
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This is a bad normal.
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We explore what characteristics make the hottest teeth. Also, relationships.
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We begin to dissect the differences between the 1920's original and the 1960's rewrite of book 4: The Missing Chums. Turns out, they added a LOT, removed a lot, and kept some really weird things.
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I did it. We did it. You did it.
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No read-alongs. Just a celebration of another book finished.
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The boys ambush the enemy. There are no negative consequences for any of their actions.
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In this penultimate chapter of book 4, Frank seizes control of the Police and the Coast Guard while Joe listens to criminals explaining the details of all of their crimes.
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The boys-- especially Joe-- demonstrate their disastrous instincts multiple times and get captured. Again.
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The boys prove their instincts would set themselves up to be awful parents.
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The boys eat several meals to break up the urgency of their kidnapped friends.
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The boys untie themselves while their captor is asleep.
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The boys make their biggest mistake yet, but think it's a triumph of detectiveship.
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The boys continue to vouch for a convicted criminal.
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The boys find a desolate island and profile its inhabitant.
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The boys vouch for a convicted thief.
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We really squander a cool opportunity to shine.
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Once again, the boys shrug off good decisions and embrace coincidence.
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Unable to learn more, the boys thanked the proprietor and bought three postcards. That sentence is emblematic of this chapter and the entire series as a whole.
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The boys hide a lot for no reason. Then they eat.
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