I was really big on the Hardy Boys when I was growing up, maybe 5th grade? I got every book from the library and read them one by one. I owned a lot of them. I’d get them for Christmas and my birthday and I built a collection.
I even saved them since I thought it’d be cool for my future kid to see the stuff I read when I was that age.
Fast forward to now, and they just seem so ridiculously dated. The world has changed so much. I knew the books were set in another time when I was reading them in the early 90s but 30 years later I don’t know who would even want to read these which is kind of weird.
How many fights can you have while getting punched in the solar plexus? The only reason I even know that word is from those books.
It just seems crazy I’ve saved these books for 30 years and then what?
When my kid is 10 I don’t know that he’ll even want to read these.
by baconwrappedapple