Customer Reviews

Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat, or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure (The Tom Swift Series)

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Read this on the kindle. It was hard to resist because it was free. These stories remind me of Hardy Boys. The submarine story is very believeable even today. Looking for sunken treasure, bad guys, sharks, adventure..... No bad words. Any child (or adult) could read this and be entertained.

I'll admit to being a Tom Swift fan. I grew up reading the Tom Swift Junior series of books and at one time owned all 32 of them (all that had been published up to that point). Somewhere along the line I got an original Tom Swift from 1910 and became hooked. Unfortunately it was difficult to find original hard bound copies of those books. Now that they have been digitized it's much easier and I can go back to that much more innocent time and enjoy the escape fiction of the day. I still keep a look out for the original hard bounds and collect them when I can.

The Kindle versions vary in quality, and this one was pretty good. The formatting does not have many places where it is obvious it was formatted for a different size or page format. I have it on my Droid along with several other Tom Swift titles and some of the original Allan Quartermain novels written in the 1890s.

The Tom Swift stories are formula books - very predictable in outcome and in chapter presentation - each one ending in a cliff hanger, teasing you to read just one more chapter to find out how Tom escapes this trap.

Keep your eyes open - often these are available at no charge, which makes them a real bargain.

I read it as a kid and it's still good reading. Recommend it for the younger set. Good opportunity to use your imagination.