I have never read a Hardy Boys novel, although I've always meant to, just out of curiosity. What I did read was the entire Danny Dunne series, about a young teenager whose widowed mother was the live-in housekeeper for a science professor. Danny always got involved in a complicated situation involving the professor's latest invention. I'm sort of afraid to go back and read them now.
Ooh, thanks for mentioning him; for this entire thread I've been thinking about those books, but I couldn't come up with any more of his name than "Dan or Daniel". And I was not looking forward to trying to Google for "juvenile fiction scientist Dan". ;)
Glad to help. The first one I read was "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine." In that story the professor builds a new type of computer that's much more powerful than anything else in existence, and much smaller (about the size of a Vax maybe). It was published in 1964, so that was small back then. Danny and his friends start using it to help them with their homework. Then they become dependent on it. Very prescient.
And I misspelled the series in my first post. Danny's last name is Dunn, not Dunne.
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I have never read a Hardy Boys novel, although I've always meant to, just out of curiosity. What I did read was the entire Danny Dunne series, about a young teenager whose widowed mother was the live-in housekeeper for a science professor. Danny always got involved in a complicated situation involving the professor's latest invention. I'm sort of afraid to go back and read them now.
Ooh, thanks for mentioning him; for this entire thread I've been thinking about those books, but I couldn't come up with any more of his name than "Dan or Daniel". And I was not looking forward to trying to Google for "juvenile fiction scientist Dan". ;)
Glad to help. The first one I read was "Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine." In that story the professor builds a new type of computer that's much more powerful than anything else in existence, and much smaller (about the size of a Vax maybe). It was published in 1964, so that was small back then. Danny and his friends start using it to help them with their homework. Then they become dependent on it. Very prescient.
And I misspelled the series in my first post. Danny's last name is Dunn, not Dunne.