Kent archie

It's interesting but verbose. Would have liked the books version of the first pass of Bronson Alpha to be in the movie. Think of the section of the movie 2012 including the destruction of LA and the eruption of Yellowstone but world wide and all at once.
That was the only good part of 2012.
Anyways there are a lot of differences so if you had seen the movie, this is still worth reading.
A lot of the speeches and conversations are tediously long, but worth the effort.
Right after this I am reading the sequel.

This would be pretty easy to update to modern times. The mystery would not need to be changed at all. The cultural differences are small compared to other kids books from this long ago.
I enjoyed it, recommended.

Clever and surprising adventure. Illya and Napoleon sounded very true to the show.

I thought about a dozen of these were funny enough to get a laugh, quite a few were funny enough for a smile but most were pretty dull. I think my daughter is regretting getting me this

Lots of interesting pictures. Learned a few things about the history and production about ST:TOS
Recommended for all ST fans

Everything is unimaginably fast/powerful/large/smart/beautiful, etc. The hero is the greatest human to have ever existed, you can tell from examining his skeleton.
So it's kind of tedious but sort of fun. You can get it from Gutenberg or Archive so for a free books iy's OK

Really interesting stories written by women with a long history of working for Disney. I learned a little more about how Disney works and that there are several ways to solve problems with your co-workers,
Highly recommended.

I won't be reading the other books in the series. This wasn't bad it's just that the endless fire fights and military acronyms and the narrator character saying”yut” all the time was too much for me. If you like military fiction with a little alien invasion in it, then give this a try.

Kind of tedious. The guys get captured, beaten/tortured, escape, get a clue and then it repeats. While gallium arsenide is used to make electronics, it doesn't have the magic properties we see in this book

Great story, a little hard to follow in some places and a few times I thought I had skipped a page

Fun book about most things nerd. It's especially interesting because I was reading it in 2022 and it was released in like 2004. I'm not much of a gamer but I see a lot of myself and my friends in this book

A good adventure ans a clever use of the titular glue. Also, for the first time Mrs. Dunn has a life outside of the kitchen and an important part in the story.

A nice trip to London, a surprising conclusion and another really stupid blunder by Danny.
This has actually become a tedious character flaw in Danny.

This has a pretty bad example of how Danny never learns. He is told that he mustn't touch something but figures it's OK if he gets somebody else to touch it. I think even the 10 year olds this was aimed at would see that that is not OK.
Even after something bad happens because he (anf his friends) misused a device the Professor made,
they do it again.

The science in this one is more silly than science.
Not my favorite.

A classic from the old days. It's set on a planet that has the culture and laws of the mythical Old West of the USA.
Lots of pretty interesting discussion of what it means to be intelligent.
The native beings on this planet are pretty well thought out but a lot of the humans are interchangeable.
I recommend it.

Horrid book. Couldn't even get half way. I'm surprised I got that far. Near the beginning, Flashman beats his father's mistress because she won't have sex with him. It doesn't get better after that. This was recommended to me by a woman acquaintance and now I wonder what I said to make her think I would like this.

Back in the 1970s there was a bunch of interest in the idea that there might be a dinosaur in the Central African jungles. This book refers to that but stays on the science side. It is pretty relatable even today. Unlike some kids books from the kind, it has a pretty respectful view of the indigenous peoples there.

A pretty good adventure but a little long. It would work still today.
It's also a decent origin story for the club. But I would recommend the other books first.

Some great stories in here, especially “Superiority”. Highly recommended.

Delightful book. Whether you have read a Jeeves and Wooster book or not, you should read this,
Very British, be sure to have your phone handy to look up some terms and slang.

As far as what non-expert people knew about computers back then, this is pretty good.
It shows the kids entering data into the computer that it will use to solve problems and they discover that you can't use a computer to solve your problem unless you have a very good understanding of the problem.

This is what I expected from a early 1900s super science adventure. The offer predicts quick travel to Mars and Venus but socially it's stuck in 1930. Women are just eye candy and the space ships have chart rooms and lookouts like you would expect on old ocean going ships.
It's a little long but if you want to get a feel for what SF was like a long time ago, give it a read. It's available on Gutenberg.

Pretty up to date for being over 50 years old. The automatic house has the equivalent of a Roomba and other current gadgets.

Great adventure, straight up science fiction.
The smallifying machine is kind of a cross between the shrink ray from “Honey, I Shrunk The Kids” and the transporter from Star Trek

Kind of 7 Samurai on Mars. And entertaining adventure.