Sad.

Well, I went down to the basement a few days ago (I think I was looking for.... a book? What book? I don't remember. But I never found it.). I stumbled across the old Get Real series I read by Linda Ellerbee. I was planning on going to the bookstore to get the books that I had missed since I stopped reading the series. I couldn't for the life of me remember why I stopped reading those books. They were awesome. Still are, in fact, even if they're written for ages 8-12. Still love 'em.

Turns out the reason I stopped reading the series is because that's how long it lasted. Eight books, and suddenly there's no more series! You know, maybe Jedi Apprentice wasn't the right series for me to start reading, because there's eighteen books in that one, so now my brain automatically assumes that a series should have at least twenty books before it's complete. I guess it's a good thing I don't read Nancy Drew... or the Baby Sitters Club. Even Jedi Apprentice would have seemed like a pathetically short series, then.

I'm curious... has anyone ever read ALL the Nancy Drew books? Every... single... stinkin'... one? Seriously. I don't doubt that there's someone, but it probably is only a select few. How old is that series anyway? Sounds like a question for RefDesk.

Well there's a picture of the front cover of the first Nancy Drew book.... she's wearing a 1930s hat. [looks for year it was written] Oh... 1930. Very perceptive, miss Rio [congratulates self].

Yeah. So, anyone who has read the series is going to have to have started all the way back at 1930, and read all the way up until now. And keep going..... 'cause Nancy Drew is like Star Trek. No way it's going to go away any time soon.

Huh... turns out there were racist comments and stuff in the original 1930s books, which got rewritten by the second author. That's interesting to know... sad too. Dude, I was watching Stargate... and there's that episode where they travel back to 1969, and Michael says to Teal'c, "You can ride up front with me, brother, it's cool." Took me the longest time to figure out that he meant that it was alright for him to ride up front even though he's black. I mean... come on! We were still on that in 1969? Just seems like the issue should have disappeared a LOT faster after the civil war... but no, we were still fretting about that in 69... weird. I mean.... 30s? Understandable, but not forgivable. 70s? Well, come now. You should know better.

BUT ANYWAY! Way off topic there for a second.

It seems that Nancy Drew is another Robin Hood. Always changing to fit the times. She started off as a headstrong flapper girl in the 30s, but toned down in the 50s, when girls were expected to be proper.

And the scary thing is... I sound like I know what I'm talking about. I have never read a Nancy Drew book, and I knew nothing about her, apart from the fact that her name was Nancy, and she solved mysteries.

HOLY!........

Well. That's....... heh. I just found a Nancy Drew book from the 1930s, original, still has the dust cover. 100 bucks!! Thought that was a steep price.

Yes, I gone done it again. Missed a zero.

$1000

One. Thousand. Dollars. For a book that's falling apart.\

I'm DEFINITELY glad I didn't start reading the Nancy Drew books now. Nancy fans are worse than Trek fans, man!! Obsessive....