The Mad Scientists' Club

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Summary: Still amazing after 30 years
Review: About 30 years ago, I read this book and fell in love with it. As I grew up, I would take it out and read it again, and I still enjoyed it. Recently, I took out my 30 year old paperback copy, and started sharing it with my children who are just getting old enough to enjoy it, and they love it also. This book is fun, exciting and imaginative. I can not find words adequate enough to express how much I enjoyed this book.

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Summary: Really, Really Cool
Review: but the members of the Mad Scientists' Club get into more adventures than the normal boys. Lake monsters, haunted houses, big eggs and balloon races are just some of the trouble, and fun, the club gets into. Seven stories in all by Bertrand R. Brinkley, with pictures by Charles Geer. First of three books.
Watch the boys solve each and every problem with science and common sense.
For boys (and men) of all ages!

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Summary: An All-Time Favorite!
Review: I loved this book! When I was growing up, I rode my bike to the library and read as many books as I could. In many ways, I was following in the steps of Thomas Edison (one of my idols). No, I was not the "success" that he was, but many of his goals were similar. He would go to the Detroit public library (about a half hour from my house) and read books, somewhat at random but in alphabetical order -- all kinds of topics. I did much the same, but it was more focused along what I liked. As for fiction, this book was one of the best.

I read it when in elementary school, middle school, high school and college. I have not read it as an adult, but now that my son is at that age, I plan to get it for him (and possibly read it myself!).

I really liked "Today I am a Ham", but not as much as this book. I liked "Lord of the Rings" probably better than this book, which would account for my reading that trilogy 7 times.

If you want to encourage your child to go into the hard sciences, this book will certainly do that. Even if you do not want that, this book is certainly entertaining. Compared to television and movies, it would be a mix of "McGuyver" and "Stand By Me".

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Summary: The best book of my childhood
Review: I ordered this book through Scholastic when I was in grade school back in the 70's. I always kept my copy, and I've handed it down to my son. I ordered another for my daughter and then purchased all three books for both of my kids. I highly recommend this book and the others by Mr. Brinley. You won't be disappointed.

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Summary: The best book of my childhood
Review: I ordered this book through Scholastic when I was in grade school back in the 70's. I always kept my copy, and I've handed it down to my son. I ordered another for my daughter and then purchased all three books for both of my kids. I highly recommend this book and the others by Mr. Brinley. You won't be disappointed.

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Summary: A boy magnet...
Review: I remember only three authors from my childhood: Richard Scarry, Bill Peet, and Bertrand R. Brinley - author of the fantastic Mad Scientists' Club. I read the Mad Scientists' Club to my sons recently who ended up loving the tales as much as I do.

A must read for any boy aged 6-10 years old who loves the freedom to muck about with their friends in a parent-free, resource rich environment. Sadly, a rapidly vanishing freedom for most boys today.

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Summary: A great introduction to reading.
Review: I remember reading The Mad Scientists' Club aloud with my dad and mom as a child. We'd alternate chapters, pausing only long enough for the laughter to subside. Later I re-read the book in my mid-twenties, simply for nostalgia's sake. I discovered that the humor had lost none of its charm, and that the characters were still the same gang of ornery, creative geniuses that I'd remembered from youth. So much fun, and such a great introduction to reading. It's not tragic or soul-searching or brilliant prose; it's BETTER than all of these things: it's a page-turning series of adventures -- almost a '50s-era Tom Sawyer -- that celebrates intelligence, curiosity, and youthful imagination. Order this fantastic book for every child you know. (And don't miss The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, either!)

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Summary: A great introduction to reading.
Review: I remember reading The Mad Scientists' Club aloud with my dad and mom as a child. We'd alternate chapters, pausing only long enough for the laughter to subside. Later I re-read the book in my mid-twenties, simply for nostalgia's sake. I discovered that the humor had lost none of its charm, and that the characters were still the same gang of ornery, creative geniuses that I'd remembered from youth. So much fun, and such a great introduction to reading. It's not tragic or soul-searching or brilliant prose; it's BETTER than all of these things: it's a page-turning series of adventures -- almost a '50s-era Tom Sawyer -- that celebrates intelligence, curiosity, and youthful imagination. Order this fantastic book for every child you know. (And don't miss The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, either!)

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Summary: This is my favorite book of all time!!!!
Review: I remember reading The Mad Scientists' Club for the first time when I was only about eight years old. I must have read and re-read that book from cover to cover over a dozen times since. It is a collection of stories about the escapades of six boys in the town of Mammoth Falls who use their wits and scientific knowledge to get in (and out) of all kinds of fun mischief, including "haunting" a house, creating a lake monster, and entering a hot air balloon race. Essentially, these six young men dive head-first into all the kinds of adventures that I longed to have as a young man. Brinley's book influenced my own adventures and ideas as I grew up, and my own stories and writings have been heavily influenced by the memories I have of this book. If you ever get a chance to read this book - DO IT!!! You will discover the adventures you always wanted to have become real in The Mad Scientists' Club.

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Summary: Does any one remember this book as a movie?
Review: I remember seeing this book as a movie when I was a kid and I would love to find out the name that it was released under. I remember seeing it in school then on TV a little while later. The actors were British or Australian...that type of accent. I don't remember if I saw the movie or read the book first. It was probably around 1974 when I saw it.