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It is one of the first in the famous old series, and yet pretty complex. Not all fluff. Stuff to get into. The "very old friend" - ness of it, is what brings me back.

I'd run to the library as a girl to get the next book in the series. I had to sit with myself, to work out a reading schedule that prevented me from obsessing on Nancy Drew books.
I read every one available at the time.

Then in highschool I re-read the rewritten series, updated it to get rid of stereotypes and racist things. My best friend owned the entire collection, so it was a bit easier. My friends and I made 4 and we'd go on "adventures" inspired by Nancy Drew, in addition to our busy family, school and dating things.

I still want a blue roadster, and I DID manage to wangle from Dad a cool Hillman Minx in two-tone grey.

As a Mother of grown children I could recommend it to them and now to grandchildren, and that's part of the magic.

"Chimneys" I think in Agatha Christie's collection for Miss Marple....because of the long lost knowledge Idea and the hidden passageways...not the best one but it will do here.

Nancy...I think Laura Linney IS Nancy Drew. And I think she took the job for love of Nancy Drew! Hugs to her for it.

I like it when the capture of the "perps" results in benefits to the "good guys" , suffering in some way. At the end, The aunties no longer need to sell the estate, etc...fun...to close with a nice feeling and promise of another mystery to come ...soon.

Please make the Nancy Drew /Hardy Boys purchases easier for us at Audible - compared to the other books they are a bit costly - when most older children and adults read them by the dozen - rarely one at a time.

Please Make them available in a group at a special price, and call me - I'll buy them all.

The audio version is wonderful because if one is planning to visit, there is plenty to do and so it saves a lot of time listening to general information and history on the topic...you'll see it when you get there, and you can Google spellings that confuse, so YES better than print.

Clear, easy, pleasant, brief

Notes about the history

No

Not really but a nice recommendation for a fine travel tool

middle

The scientific details are so artfully integrated with the text on the whole, that it is very easy to stay with.

It is not a book with Characters, but the telling of the workings of a baby's mind, from many points of view.

The bits of miracle in it can make the epiphany for new or future parents - it shares so many wonderful insights, and at the end of the book , the reader will have a fresh and appreciative and more sensitive way with babies - theirs or anyone's .

I gave it all those stars because it is valuable. All should read it. I am sharing it with the youngsters and read it myself because I am finally going to be a grandmother and, although I worked with children when mine were growing up , they are the typical later-in-life parents and I really forgot some of the senses that should help me be a fine grandparent. I liked the book. It was easy and not popish.

Yes, I would recommend the books. Clear, right-minded, not-evasive but not noir, either. Good characters and classic fun with mystery vocablulary and dynamics.

Yes and no. I was excited and interested, but am rarely on the edge of my seat. I had full faith that my heroines would get the bad guy and make it thru ok...sort of Nancy Drew for Grownups :-D

I like her voice pitch and will look for other books she reads. Clear but not annoying, expressive, but not hammy or amateurish in her effort to make our listening the best. Some book readers tire me - she did not tire me.

There were three stories. I felt very sad when their friend's mother died. Bad. Delighted at the romance development. And glad when the sleuths got their man/woman.

I am new to audible and thrilled! Thanksomuch!

The dreary content. I had empathy with the narrator, and understanding of the point he was trying to make, but there are infinitely many stories to tell, and that one was not really art.

His reminder of how success helps us to overlook even the most glaring errors. The horrid people seemed angels to him, once he'd made his sale. The least interesting was some of the leadup...he kept losing me.

Nice..old-fashioned a bit, but it was supposed to be I think...a dear old classic, it would have been if the content was not so difficult for me. When my Grandfather spoke , using that sort of voice, the person behind it never said such talk around Women, so it was more charming .

No.

I am new to Audiobooks and enjoying most of it very much! Thank you!

Not sure.

This type of writing does not really have and ending but is supposed to give us insights into ourselves in ways that help. But the insights were not me at all, so I felt deflated and put off.

Yes, Garth Sundem is a clear and articulate reader and I enjoyed his voice.

It was supposed to, but since its tack was not right for me , it achieved the goal of sending me looking for something similar that DID have the right stuff for me, so I guess that is good, at least.

I Like AudioBooks very much

Yes, as soon as I recover from 32 consecutive hours listening to this first , or to any story.

This is my first but it was well-told, clear and with good continuum, a bit overmuch on the sex and violence - "the Dukes of Hazard goes Celtic" came to mind after awhile.

But then I remembered my seven Irish Uncles and Auntie and nine Polish ones, and the wonderful melee that never ends is sort of how it often is.

Nancy Drew grows up, warms up and finds love - since her role as nurse puts her in it , as foil to the always warring and being injured guys. Like Nancy, whose Mother died too young, Claire lost both parents in youth but was well brought up by an uncle and like Nancy must solve the mysteries and she must help and heal.

And that's fine, of course.

By today's standards, her superhero, Jamie, would be mostly judged to be a battered child grown up and I felt painful compassion for him, but wanted to look away often enough - the reaction was too much the moment I gave it some thought - he was so often so badly injured and scarred !

In fact, given the emotional whallop of her orphaning ( and Jamie is an orphan, as well ) Claire may need him to be JUST who he is, since his needs allow her work through her own devastation and , as lovers do, she comforts and heals her own damage, scars, wars and needs , as she attends to Jamie.

Helping Jamie, Claire redeems herself.

And the author addresses that issue with the climax scene in which she literally and physically wrestles her man back to life, demonstrating the spiritual resolution she's found, and her total commitment - "I'm not finished with you yet" she swears and life swears at poor Jamie - and she pounds and pummels him to bring him round from certain death.

When we were children, we'd dream of saving the life of our one true love, if not quite so.

The choice of the names was fine for a romance and I wondered if "Jamie" hied to another Scot, James Bond, although as a ladybook, Jamie's mission is not a James Bond story, but muddied sometimes, to emphasize the woman's point of view.


Hated Claire's bad language at times - but she had just been a WWII battlefield nurse, and so it made sense, but the words would have been pretty bad for any woman of that time, even in battlefield circumstances. There is a perverse pride in that brand of profanity I think - but I will never understand it.

Disliked the old-fashioned dynamic of gender war. Grates. It is not so difficult to skip it but back then, it was there all the time. The woman's need to be constantly defensive of her right and role, till the whole thing was mostly arm-wrestling for power. I felt reassured when, at least, her skills won respect.

I liked the old Laird's comments about Claire being a woman and not stuck as a lifelong girl were well done. He does not say there is anything wrong with being girlish, but since their lives were so robust, the girlish type was not right for them for wiving.

I love things Celt and have studied Gaelic and such stories interest me. Going back to refresh my history after reading it.

The color and beauty of the time and the land and the herb lore and mysticism charm me every time. And the mix of past and present in the healing is great - and in fact, medicine is doing just that , right now, and recently found another thing that works for leukemia in a pretty pink flower found only in Madagascar.

Neat no? And so these passages perked the ears.

The moment of commitment between Claire and Jamie at the hut.

It it is too late for my opinion on the subject, since followups have been done , a broadway play done and maybe a movie? And I have not read them, although , having established the characters it seems right to do followups - the trick with time alone is fun.

Sometimes a book like this is really needed. A lady vitamin of a sort, is the classic romance. It was one that I needed, and the author does a quality job.

The sensual descriptions and tellings of the way lovers interact was really good. I was perfectly well entertained, although it might not hold the attention of men well.

It really works, as an audio book. One thing: I am not good about bad language, particularly in women and I would not keep Claire as an everyday friend over it.

But overall, the book is a fine one.

It works.

I got quite a few routine and quiet things done,working alone in my studio office: things that get tedious, but did not, because they were accompanied by the exciting story enlivening me on my wireless headphones.

Thank you for reading this review. It got long for me, in retaliation :-D

Makes it just fine!

Nancy Drew was NEVER about literary or artistic perfection - numerous changes, and a succession of authors would certainly make a literary patchwork quilt of it all.

But we love a patchwork quilt and it is still an enrichment and delight to love Nancy Drew Mysteries.

Nancy Drew stories, books, movies, games and merchandise sell significantly worldwide, and this one continues the triumph and as one who ran to the library to get the next in the series, more than 50 years ago, I have, from time to time, picked up the followups to be sure Nancy is still the winning light she is meant to be. She is still "good to go".

I liked the scenes in Italy - they inspire a desire to visit.

The discovery of the data that solved the crime.

Happy ending

Nancy Drew stories remain triumphant, and since "The Secret of the Old Clock" in 1930 Nancy Drew has been about a lot of things we need to preserve in America - and in the world.

Fewer of the sort of descriptives usually found only among 5th grade boys

The topic is very exciting and wonderful and I hoped for a well-rounded story - a journey that explores the topic well. This one galloped along, wafting over the more intelligent concepts of Orga/Mecha conflict and went for the cheap grab of extreme violent act and moment. I felt so let down, since Extra-terrestrial exploration is an exciting topic.

No. I am new to Audible and to Robin Sachs. Robin Sach's delivery was perfectly fine. In fact, "Bravo" - if he made it through the challenges of the book.

I'd need to go back and listen again to be more specific and I cannot make me do that, but , as I mentioned, I'd remove at least half the scenes describing extreme sadism and violence. The overmuch of visceral violence, described poorly and insensitively, with obvious intent to disprupt succeeded in disrupting the ability to enjoy a flow of good storytelling. The topic is sophisticated exciting and gutsy enough - only a few of the violent descriptions are needed to get the idea across, and sill keep the overall story the thing.

I love Audible. This is the first of my selections of audio books to disappoint. I was embarassed to have chosen it and sad that I could not remove it from my Library list...don't want it there.