danmac23 ([info]danmac23) wrote in [info]ohnotheydidnt,
@ 2009-07-11 02:09:00
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Meet the Nancy Drew girls




The lazy days of summer always seem to have young girls reading through the adventures of Nancy, her best friends Bess and George, and her slightly wooden headed boy friend Ned Nickerson. Ready to leap into her blue roadster, enabled by gobs of cash from her lawyer father, and handy with a revolver, Nancy is a mystery solving whiz.
Add Judge Sotomayor's name to the Nancy Drew fan club. Her interest in the law was sparked as a young girl by reading the Nancy Drew series. Sandra Day O'Connor, Hilary Clinton, Mary Tyler Moore, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as Barbara Walters and Fran Lebowitz cite her as an early primary influence on their lives.
The Nancy Drew series will be 80 years old next year.
HER games has released a free demo of the new Nancy Drew game Ransom of the Seven Ships:



source (Free Demo Game): http://www.filefront.com/Nancy+Drew+Ransom+of+the+Seven+Ships+Demo/;13926662;/fileinfo.html
source:http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=475076&publicationSubCategoryId=453


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[info]handsdowntoo
2009-07-11 04:06 pm UTC (link)
I loved Nancy Drew. I always used to tease my cousin than she was smarter than the Hardy boys because she could solve all the mysteries by herself.

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[info]luxis_lil
2009-07-11 04:07 pm UTC (link)
I FUCKING LOVED NANCY DREW but you know what was even better? NANCY DREW/HARDY BOYS CROSSOVER NOVELS! Fuck Ned, Frank/Nancy FO' LIFE!

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[info]akscully
2009-07-11 06:25 pm UTC (link)
YESSSS

Those crossovers were EPIC and so so hot with the flirting and the almost kisses.

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[info]06005
2009-07-11 04:07 pm UTC (link)
I loveeeee Nancy Drew my mother gave me her whole collection from when she was little when I was like 9 or 10.

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[info]fortunaestcaeca
2009-07-11 07:08 pm UTC (link)
same here! my mom had the first 54. :D

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[info]microwatts
2009-07-11 04:17 pm UTC (link)
fuck I fucking LOVE ND
omg I think I'm going to pass out brb

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[info]adventures
2009-07-11 04:22 pm UTC (link)
I haven't read too many Nancy Drew books, but a couple years ago I read a book about it's creation and "Carolyn Keene." It was pretty interesting.

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[info]clairemuch
2009-07-11 04:23 pm UTC (link)
i loooooved nancy drew. :) bess was totes my fave. ~

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[info]panicsm12
2009-07-11 04:23 pm UTC (link)
nancy drew is one of my favorite things ever but i cant stand the game quality kids used to use them where i work

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[info]runaway_elf
2009-07-11 04:23 pm UTC (link)
ngl, the nancy drew games are actually so fantastic. i love them.

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[info]sentimentalblur
2009-07-11 04:43 pm UTC (link)
lol me, too. Although, I haven't been impressed with some of the more recent ones.

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[info]hotlush
2009-07-11 04:23 pm UTC (link)
Oh ffs "secret of the old clock" was my shiiit! that was the first one I ever read. My mom always loved Nancy Drew, and I remember my brothers would make fun of me cause I would read them being a boy they thought it was a girl only book/series. AND THEN I'd read the books and talk about them with mom and we'd get all into it and shit, and then they'd steal the books and read them rofl.

AND WTF that video game looks fun but hard, all those puzzles looked confusing as shit rofl.

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[info]fortunaestcaeca
2009-07-11 04:31 pm UTC (link)
that was the first nd book i read too! my mom has the first 54. :D:D

and omg, i own like 7 of the games and they are so hard. it's embarrassing because i played them as a teenager and had to check out the forums to get help because i couldn't figure them out on my own. lol.

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[info]angiealight
2009-07-11 04:30 pm UTC (link)
I loved the Nancy Drew books. I used to have most of the series. No clue where they are now, but I loved them. Also, I loved - and I'll be surprised if anyone else knows these books - the Trixie Belden mystery books. :D

Awesome, awesome. Also, I remember as a kid running to the dictionary to see what color "titian" was.

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[info]fortunaestcaeca
2009-07-11 04:32 pm UTC (link)
i've read the few trixie belden books my mom owns. :D

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[info]misscrystal
2009-07-11 04:31 pm UTC (link)
Nancy Drew books were always so boring to me. I read everything when I was a kid (and got in trouble regularly for reading instead of paying attention in class), but Nancy Drew was never exciting.
Plus only the lame girls who read those books about teenage girls falling in love as they're dying of cancer/leukemia read Nancy Drew.

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[info]elefante_x
2009-07-11 05:07 pm UTC (link)
say whaaat? i read dickens and obsess over national geographic and still count nancy drew books as some of my all-time favorites. no leukemia love stories here.

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[info]sentimentalblur
2009-07-11 04:43 pm UTC (link)
I love Nancy Drew. Also, there is a girl at my sister's school whose name is Nancy Drew.

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[info]_panache
2009-07-11 04:46 pm UTC (link)
I also loved Nancy Drew, I kept reading them until I was about 13.

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[info]_panache
2009-07-11 04:48 pm UTC (link)
Also I'm really glad that they still print them. If you go through the young girl section of a bookstore these days, most everything being written is garbage, gossip girl clones with hot pink covers. It's nice that there's still someone intelligent for them to read about.

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[info]scullyish
2009-07-11 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Part of me will always want to be Nancy Drew, ngl. And I remember being super pissed that the girl they got to play Nancy in one of the TV series had a short, dark bob haircut, instead of long red hair.

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[info]pieceinpieces
2009-07-12 11:54 am UTC (link)
That made me angry also!

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[info]dawnie1970
2009-07-11 04:54 pm UTC (link)
Nancy Drew is the best. And the new PC games are quite good. I love sharing them with my daughter.

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[info]syd_bristow68
2009-07-11 04:57 pm UTC (link)
I loved Nancy...and I even play those games. Yes, I will admit it, I love them.

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[info]mmmfashnik
2009-07-11 04:58 pm UTC (link)
OMG I had that book! And a few others but I don't remember what they were called.

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[info]elefante_x
2009-07-11 05:04 pm UTC (link)
i stayed with my bff for spring break and we sat around her house all week and beat 4 of those bitches. hell yeah i'm proud. then she gave me like the 12 she owned and already beat. none of which work on my computer. but yes. i love nancy drew! girl power.

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[info]mellieebelliee
2009-07-11 05:08 pm UTC (link)
That's funny b/c I always thought Nancy Drew was sexist as a child.

Also I remember being like 7 and asking my mom why she and her boyfriend never kiss.

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[info]i_like_bats
2009-07-11 05:12 pm UTC (link)
When I got into Emerson College, the first thing my little sister said to me was OMG NANCY DREW'S BOYFRIEND NED GOES THERE.

Figures. I always thought he was gay.

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[info]giadaa
2009-07-11 05:16 pm UTC (link)
loveee nancy drew. my favorite game was treasure in the royal tower. the best ones are the old ones made by the other company... dream something. HER doesn't make them as well.

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[info]lei3
2009-07-11 05:23 pm UTC (link)
Does anyone else think Nancy sounds weird...like too old?



I saw that Nancy Drew movie with Emma Roberts last summer...that was a big disappointment.


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[info]fortunaestcaeca
2009-07-11 07:12 pm UTC (link)
that movie was atrocious. i was not happy.

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[info]ohloverx
2009-07-11 05:24 pm UTC (link)
I just came in for the video game. I love the Nancy Drew video games! They are some of my favorite relaxing games because they aren't hard, but they have a great story and are a fun way to waste a few hours. I can't wait for the new one! Hopefully it will be better than the last few. I haven't really enjoyed one since pre-Kapu Cave.

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[info]hproxmysox
2009-07-13 02:15 am UTC (link)
I agree with this entire comment!

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[info]under_pressure
2009-07-11 05:25 pm UTC (link)
ND is the shit, but each attempt to modernize just fails miserably.

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