The Mann of bronze!
Alright I admit it, I have an ulterior motive in posting this top ten list, it forces me to post on the blog daily. Yes, I have felt like a slacker lately, after promising myself that I would post daily when I started this, I understand now what a chore it can be. The writing is the easy part - well at least it is when I decide on what I am going to write about, so I guess this top ten thing has its positives also. When I was a younger lad, I used to get presents of books all the time (I have been reading voraciously since I was 7). I managed to collect the entire Hardy Boys series when I was young, all 57 of them. After a while it was difficult for relatives and the like to figure out books to get me, that is until I discovered number 9) Doc Savage - The Man of Bronze. I collected all 6 of the hard back books (which I still have, unlike the Hardy Boys, they got thrown away when I left for college) and continued on later by collecting the Bantam paperback reprints. Doc Savage was the ultimate thinking man's hero, the top brain in a myriad of disciplines. Along with his band of stalwart companions, each an expert in their own speciality, they were adventurers constantly ridding the world of evil everywhere.
posted by Unknown at 6:38 PM
4 Comments:
I do need to hunt those books down someday but at the rate that I'm finding time to read... they'd just wind up looking good on the bookshelf.
"When I was a younger lad, I used to get presents of books all the time"
I guess some things don't change.
By the way you have a good start of the first 10 books in the Hardy Boys series.
Yep now I need only 47 more......and more bookshelves.
Cool. I have managed to collect quite a bit of the original stories in paperback, the Bantam paperbacks. I probably have and have read 40-50 of the stories. Their is something special about holding a book in hand for me.
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