From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Scott Lurndal  wrote:   
   >Would modern students find the mysteries compelling, tame or   
   >ridiculously dated? (those students that (1) can read and (2) do read).   
      
   All of the above.  I remember reading the original Hardy Boys books and   
   learning about rumble seats and vulcanizing machines and dictaphones.   
   Today that is even more dated and alien but that might make it more interesting   
   to kids.   
      
   What is most incredibly dated are the original Tom Swift books, and they were   
   incredibly dated when I read them in the sixties.  Swiftboats that are   
   propelled by electromagnets that repel the earth's magnetic field!  Flying   
   machines that operate by electrical repulsion!  This is the world I was   
   hoping to someday live in.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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