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Originally Posted by sufue
Wow - I had no idea there were revised versions, but I would have been reading a few years after the revisions started, so I probably would have read a mix. I remember reading some old ones I had gotten from relatives, but also I remember saving up my allowance and buying some new ones, which probably would have been the revised ones. I guess I just wasn't a very discriminating reader in those days, because AFAIR, I liked them all...  |
I hear you! I certainly wasn’t that discriminating as a kid, either, but when I look at them now, I can see how the quality tanked and the newest Nancy irritates. And in any case, while I read the originals for the earlier books, eventually the series caught up with the revised Nancy anyway, and I liked them all, too.
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ADD: The ones which really annoyed me were the Cherry Ames/nurse series. I never understood why she had to be the nurse, and not the doctor. So I gave up on those pretty fast.
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I can’t resist.
I think the major issue with the Cherry Ames books is that they were supposedly grounded in reality but it was all just made up. On some level, any girl knew that Nancy Drew was fantasy, but Cherry was supposed to be “real.” But the errors! Type C blood! (I’m not making this up.) A navigator on a combat plane who didn’t know where they were going! So the books weren’t fantasy, they were just ridiculous. And that’s aside from such issues as Cherry’s being unable to hold down a job for more than a few weeks, apparently. Unfortunately, the whole “boys get to be doctors and girls have to be nurses” schtick reflected reality, certainly when the series was started - World War II era. But I know you know this.