The best series of the year, "The 39 Clues"!

Advantages: Amazing, Exciting, Teaches about Geography and History, Teaches good Morals,...
Disadvantages: To understand it completely you would have to read all ten of them.

...the Grand Hall where they face a question. One million dollars or a clue that will lead to 39 clues that will make the person who finds them the most powerful Cahill (the family these people are all a part of) in history. (The Cahills are a family that supposedly shaped civilization with people like Benjamin Franklin, Marie Curie, and Abraham Lincoln) Amy and Dan chose the clue and they with their au pair...

ENGdeB 02.01.2011 00:58 · Read review
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Review of The 39 Clues - Scholastic

Clue

Advantages: Fun, Atmospheric
Disadvantages: cliched, too short

...have all received a letter telling them to come on a particular night although none know why. Each is given a pseudonym from the classic board game Clue or Cluedo as it is known here in the UK so that each remains anonymous to each other. When all of the guests arrive they are greeted by Wadsworth (Tim Curry), the butler, who reveals that the thing they have in common is that they are all being...

sjp1966 30.05.2007 15:05 (30.05.2007 15:04) · Read review
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Review of Clue (DVD)

The Original 39

Advantages: A classic caper...
Disadvantages: ... or a bit dated if that's how you'd prefer to see it.

...of the Palace at Westminster clock tower. (He'd never have called it Big Ben. He'd have known better.) The films, good, bad and indifferent, cloud the issue. In this case that's all to the good, if you haven't read the book. Knowing what the 39 steps are ~ and, no, it isn't a recovery programme for the hard-to-treat addicts ~ doesn't render the book pointless or unreadable, but certainly it's much more...

hiker 29.12.2011 22:36 · Read review
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Review of The 39 Steps - John Buchan