Hardy Boys Contemplative Mug Suck

The Hardy Boys books were originally written in the 1930s by a handful of writers. In the 1970s they were heavily revised. They were made 20% shorter and more action-oriented, and the plots were significantly altered. I grew up reading the 1970s versions, but as an adult have started reading the 1930s versions. There is an uneasy nostalgia in this – I am reliving a past that was not mine substantially, although I can still see my own childhood in it. I realize my own childhood was a distortion, a palimpsest.