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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780312301088
ISBN: 0312301081
Label: St. Martin's Minotaur
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: October 17, 2002
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Sales Rank: 1052582
Studio: St. Martin's Minotaur
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Product Description:
In 1982, Benjamin Hoff published The Tao of Pooh, a plainspoken yet startling and complex take on A.A. Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories. Hoff's keen insights propelled the book, and its sequel, The Te of Piglet to total sales of over 2.5 million copies. Now Hoff has turned to another childhood classic, Franklin W. Dixon's beloved Hardy Boys mysteries, and created The House on the Point.
As a child, Hoff loved the Hardy Boys; they were the books that hooked him on his lifelong love of reading. Recently, he revisited The House on the Cliff, one of the classic early Hardy Boys mysteries, and decided to reshape it for readers of all ages. Hoff sets this recast story, now entitled The House on the Point, in 1947, when the Swing Era was giving way to the Baby Boom, and gives it a plot involving a post-war smuggling racket, a young newcomer to town who may have something to hide, and a police chief who's in no hurry to investigate. And he does so with a greater attention to detail, more fully developed characters, and a modern ear for dialogue.
Publishing in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of the first Hardy Boys mystery, The House on the Point is a book for those who haven't yet made the acquaintance of the Hardy Boys and those who haven't "grown up" and left their adventures behind.
Amazon.com Review:
In The House on the Point, Benjamin Hoff, author of The Tao of Pooh, again takes a second look at a childhood artifact, this time revisiting the Hardy Boys novel The House on the Cliff.
The original Hardy Boys titles were not the creations of the nonexistent Franklin W. Dixon credited on their covers but actually the products of numerous factory writers between 1927 and 1946. They've been reconfigured over the years for different generations, but never so lovingly as in this attempt by Hoff to reintroduce the Hardys to a new pack of young readers. Hoff has stripped the book down to its bare essentials and redrafted it with fresh dialogue and three-dimensional characters. In an appendix, his attention to detail is apparent--he lists every plot device he kept from the original and defends the subtractions and additions.
But is it any good? Heck, it's a Hardy Boys adventure. There are spooky old houses, smugglers' caves, and last-minute rescues. It's a slice of wholesome fun for young readers or older readers who want to once again spend some time with the irrepressible Hardys. --Jeremy Pugh
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I bought this book out of curiosity. Having read and enjoyed the entire original Hardy Boys series, I wanted to see what this author did with the "rewrite" concept. While I did enjoy the book, I think it missed the mark in some crucial areas.
One of the problems I had with the story was the inaccurate portrayal of life in the U.S. of the late 40's. The context was amazingly shallow. The story attempted to transplant a little bit of 40's content into a more modern, familiar context. ... Read More
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For those who read the Hardy Boys in their youth-particularly the editions prior to the 1970s rewritings, and the originals composed in the 1930s-1950s--the sense has always endured that there was something solid and memorable there that is the cause of our enduring memories. Benjamin Hoff validates this hunch in expanding the original 1927 The House on the Cliff to a longer form, casting it as a full-scale genre mystery novel. Hoff demonstrates that in the underlying situations and characters there was ... Read More
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Talk, talk, talk -- and more talk! This is supposed to add depth and characterization to The Hardy Boys, but all it does is suck the life out of them with TALK! The characters are just as one-dimensional as they ever were, only -- a rarity for The Hardy Boys -- their "adventure" is boring. There are endless pages of Frank, Joe and their buddies talking, planning, discussing, TALKING over what they're going to do. The original and stream-lined, updated versions of "The House on the Cliff" were both MUCH better. ... Read More
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A rewrite of a classic Hardy Boys mystery novel, carefully researched and beautifully written by a devoted fan. Hoff gives personality and flair to the boys - who all too often suffered from factory-style writing. This was a pleasant read; part trip down memory lane, part new adventure.
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"The House On The Point" is a modern rewrite of the classic Hardy Boys adventure, "The House On The Cliff".
Reading it brings to mind the old axiom: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
The original "The House On The Cliff" is one of the best of the Hardy Boys canon and can scarcely be improved on, yet the author tries - vainly.
For no reason at all, he changes the name of some of the major recurring characters in the series and has the Hardy Boys and their friends jive-talking in 40's slang. ... Read More
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