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Tom Swift Sr. #4
Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat
Tom Swift's father, Barton Swift, is a great inventor with many patents and project sold to both private enterprises and the Government. Now, Tom joins him as they set out to test a new deep diving submarine Barton has build to try to secure a military contract. Driven by a radically new form of propulsion, it is up against other submarines, but their primary opponent is an unscrupulous man who will do everything possible-including attacking the Swifts-to win that contract. Things take a turn when a gold-laden ship sinks off the coast of South America, and it becomes a race both in distance and diving ability to see which submarine will win the contract and also get that gold
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1910
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Victor Appleton
433 books47 followersVictor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books.
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The character of Tom Swift was conceived in 1910 by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging company. Stratemeyer invented the series to capitalize on the market for children's science adventure. The Syndicate's authors created the Tom Swift books by first preparing an outline with all the plot elements, followed by drafting and editing the detailed manuscript. The books were published under the house name of Victor Appleton. Edward Stratemeyer and Howard Garis wrote most of the volumes in the original series; Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, wrote the last three volumes. The first Tom Swift series ended in 1941.
In 1954, Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr., series, which was published under the name "Victor Appleton II". Most titles were outlined and plotted by Adams. The texts were written by various writers, among them William Dougherty, John Almquist, Richard Sklar, James Duncan Lawrence, Tom Mulvey and Richard McKenna. The Tom Swift, Jr., series ended in 1971.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_...
The character of Tom Swift was conceived in 1910 by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging company. Stratemeyer invented the series to capitalize on the market for children's science adventure. The Syndicate's authors created the Tom Swift books by first preparing an outline with all the plot elements, followed by drafting and editing the detailed manuscript. The books were published under the house name of Victor Appleton. Edward Stratemeyer and Howard Garis wrote most of the volumes in the original series; Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, wrote the last three volumes. The first Tom Swift series ended in 1941.
In 1954, Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr., series, which was published under the name "Victor Appleton II". Most titles were outlined and plotted by Adams. The texts were written by various writers, among them William Dougherty, John Almquist, Richard Sklar, James Duncan Lawrence, Tom Mulvey and Richard McKenna. The Tom Swift, Jr., series ended in 1971.
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December 3, 2024
Having mastered the art of motorcycle maintenance, followed by adventures with a motorboat and an airship, the fourth volume of the original Tom Swift series finds Our Hero (as he's repeatedly referred to in the text) and has pals aboard a submarine and searching for sunken treasure off the coast of South America. The book was published in 1910 by Grosset & Dunlap. The Stratemeyer Syndicate produced five Tom Swift novels in each of the first three years of the series, all written by the famous and very prolific children's author Howard Garis. Tom is a brilliant young scientist and engineer, the son of an aged yet still brilliant scientist and engineer, widower Barton Swift. The elder Swift has designed the current project with Tom's help, and though in all of the other books that I can remember he stays at home he goes along for the adventure in this one, as does Mr. Wakefield Damon, Tom's eccentric friend who blesses random items every time he speaks. Also on hand are Mrs. Baggert the housekeeper, Garrett Jackson the loyal engineer and assistant, Ned Newton (Tom's best friend employed as a clerk at the bank), and, of course (it was 1910), the unfortunately racist caricature of Eradicate Sampson, loyal but unintelligent employee. Rad's only present for a short time, as he stays home on guard duty. Mary Nestor, Tom's girlfriend, makes a brief appearance, as do Tom's enemy Andy Foger and his minions. Andy actually tries to kill Tom (again), but Tom refuses to notify the police (again), so as to not bother taking up their valuable time, which was to my mind a poor example to be setting for the youth of America. Anyway, it's a typical youth-oriented adventure of the time, where right wins out, the white hats rule the day and the black hats rue it, and they all live happily ever after... at least until volume five arrives. There's a weird deus ex machina hurricane that pops up to advance the plot, but what're ya gonna do? I revisited the story via a Librivox committee presentation from a wide range of readers. A couple of them weren't too good, most were okay, and a couple were absolutely excellent. Thanks, Librivox folks!
June 4, 2019
TOOOOM SWIFT and his (dad's) submarine boat! Read as Tom Swift nearly dies but wont go to the cops! Follow along as our hero and his friends hunt for gold! Gasp as our hero fixes the boat just in time saving everyones life!!! But will they get to the sunkin ship in time!?!?!? (I don't even know if I care any more. These books might be to much for me)
October 27, 2020
At age five Dad got a house in unincorporated Kane County, Illinois. Although far from his job at Honeywell in Rosemont, he snapped it up because of a G.I. subsidy which had the government pick up the tab on the downpayment. The Meadowdale development was so new that there were no lawns, no sidewalks and nothing nearby except farms, a creek and a wooded hill. There wasn't even a school yet so the move ended my brief experience of kindergarten. All the houses looked the same, just different colors. Because of the subsidy, pretty much all the folks moving in were vets and their families. Because the feds were involved, it was multiracial. I had to learn about racism later, after moving to Park Ridge at age ten. Meadowdale was paradise!
Unlike most of our neighbors, my parents read. Dad never got a tv, so on rainy days there was little choice. He'd listen to classical music all day. Mom would knit or write to her family in Norway. I'd draw or read. Later, his parents gave us an old portable, but by then it was too late. The reading habit was ingrained. Later, the Oak Ridge Elementary School and the Meadowdale Shopping Center were constructed. Mom became head of the PTA. We kids now had places to shop with the money collected from bottle deposits. My personal library grew to the extent that I set up a lending library (with penny fines) for schoolmates.
Knowing my rep, the mother of one of my best friends, Susan Whittaker, took me aside one day to hand me a book from her childhood. It was' Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat'--an edition unlike any of the cheap blue hardcovers of the contemporary series.
It was also better than the more recent books. As I look back, I think the baddies in it were Germanic, a fact which related meaningfully to Dad's talk of service in North Africa and Mom's stories of growing up in Nazi-occupied Oslo.
Unlike most of our neighbors, my parents read. Dad never got a tv, so on rainy days there was little choice. He'd listen to classical music all day. Mom would knit or write to her family in Norway. I'd draw or read. Later, his parents gave us an old portable, but by then it was too late. The reading habit was ingrained. Later, the Oak Ridge Elementary School and the Meadowdale Shopping Center were constructed. Mom became head of the PTA. We kids now had places to shop with the money collected from bottle deposits. My personal library grew to the extent that I set up a lending library (with penny fines) for schoolmates.
Knowing my rep, the mother of one of my best friends, Susan Whittaker, took me aside one day to hand me a book from her childhood. It was' Tom Swift and His Submarine Boat'--an edition unlike any of the cheap blue hardcovers of the contemporary series.
It was also better than the more recent books. As I look back, I think the baddies in it were Germanic, a fact which related meaningfully to Dad's talk of service in North Africa and Mom's stories of growing up in Nazi-occupied Oslo.
June 9, 2012
I read the Tom Swift Sr. books as a child and again when I got my Kindle in 2010. They are an easy read and enjoyable. It is interesting to see how writing has changed since these books were written.
June 26, 2025
I didn't expect this to be good, but I probably expected it to be better than it was.
A plot driven largely by accident, luck, coincidence, poor planning, the malicious acts of dastardly rivals, and artificial urgency that somehow vanished when there was actually a reason to hurry. Add Brazilians who speak Spanish (unlike real Brazilians, who speak Portuguese), and it's just a whole mass of nonsense.
Here's how it goes down (there are spoilers, if you care). Tom Swift, boy inventor, is helping his father, the "aged" inventor Barton Swift, to build a submarine. (Everyone who's much older than Tom is "aged"; Tom is old enough to drive but not so young as to have to attend school, so probably late teens.) They intend to enter it for a Government prize of $50,000, but then Tom reads in a newspaper about the wreck of a ship carrying $150,000 worth of gold off the coast of South America. Nobody else can reach this gold, and it's not going anywhere, but for some non-obvious reason it immediately becomes urgent that they rush the sub's development and go and get the gold, abandoning the idea of trying out for the Government prize. Por que no los dos?
Through a Convenient Eavesdrop, Tom learns that another submarine developer who wants to compete for the prize is a bad lot (he's talking to himself aloud while changing a tyre, and Tom overhears by complete coincidence). Through what I suppose I must call an Inconvenient Eavesdrop - inconvenient for Tom, that is - this character learns of the shipwreck, again by complete coincidence, because Tom is blabbing about it to a friend of his, and of course he will also be able to go after it in his submarine.
There now actually is urgency, and they rush the sub into its first trial without preparing any of the emergency mechanisms that they end up needing when a quite predictable fault occurs in this previously untested machine. Tom ("our hero") does one of the few straightforwardly effectual, protagonistic things he does in the entire book and saves everyone.
They get the sub working properly and all the emergency mechanisms installed at last, and head off for South America. The urgency doesn't stop them from deciding to spend a day relaxing on a tropical island they happen to encounter, where their rival also turns up, having unaccountably followed them (sonar doesn't seem to be a thing, and they were underwater most of the time).
They manage to shake off the pursuers, do an emergency surfacing after another system goes wrong (health and safety is not much of a thing either), and find themselves next to a Brazilian warship. The uncivilized Spanish-speaking Brazilians arrest them as saboteurs and are going to shoot them, but by fortunate coincidence a storm blows up and distracts the slipshod Brazilian navy crew enough that the brave Americans can escape. There's a completely uncalled-for dig at the fact that the Brazilians are brown-skinned.
They cruise to the location of the wreck and, after a bit of searching, find it and carry off the gold without a hitch, exiting just as their rivals come on the scene.
I've left out the subplot about Tom's bully, the spoiled son of a wealthy banker, getting his comeuppance (again) in a rather immature prank-for-prank exchange.
The other notable feature for me was that two of the characters had verbal tics, but Tom wasn't one of them - he didn't say or do things adverbially, which disappointed me, because I love a Tom Swifty. Perhaps this only developed later in the series. One of the tics I found amusing: a character who, in practically every sentence, blesses some part of his body or one of his possessions ("bless my boots!"), often in a way that connects to whatever is going on. The other I found annoying: the captain they recruit to help them with the submarine, again almost every time he says something, tacks on a phrase like "if you'll forgive the observation" or "if my saying so doesn't offend you," even when he has expressed the blandest and most obvious opinion. The tics are at least 50% of the characterization of these two men.
Probably OK if you're 12, not very knowledgeable, and have no problem with American exceptionalism. But for me, disappointing.
A plot driven largely by accident, luck, coincidence, poor planning, the malicious acts of dastardly rivals, and artificial urgency that somehow vanished when there was actually a reason to hurry. Add Brazilians who speak Spanish (unlike real Brazilians, who speak Portuguese), and it's just a whole mass of nonsense.
Here's how it goes down (there are spoilers, if you care). Tom Swift, boy inventor, is helping his father, the "aged" inventor Barton Swift, to build a submarine. (Everyone who's much older than Tom is "aged"; Tom is old enough to drive but not so young as to have to attend school, so probably late teens.) They intend to enter it for a Government prize of $50,000, but then Tom reads in a newspaper about the wreck of a ship carrying $150,000 worth of gold off the coast of South America. Nobody else can reach this gold, and it's not going anywhere, but for some non-obvious reason it immediately becomes urgent that they rush the sub's development and go and get the gold, abandoning the idea of trying out for the Government prize. Por que no los dos?
Through a Convenient Eavesdrop, Tom learns that another submarine developer who wants to compete for the prize is a bad lot (he's talking to himself aloud while changing a tyre, and Tom overhears by complete coincidence). Through what I suppose I must call an Inconvenient Eavesdrop - inconvenient for Tom, that is - this character learns of the shipwreck, again by complete coincidence, because Tom is blabbing about it to a friend of his, and of course he will also be able to go after it in his submarine.
There now actually is urgency, and they rush the sub into its first trial without preparing any of the emergency mechanisms that they end up needing when a quite predictable fault occurs in this previously untested machine. Tom ("our hero") does one of the few straightforwardly effectual, protagonistic things he does in the entire book and saves everyone.
They get the sub working properly and all the emergency mechanisms installed at last, and head off for South America. The urgency doesn't stop them from deciding to spend a day relaxing on a tropical island they happen to encounter, where their rival also turns up, having unaccountably followed them (sonar doesn't seem to be a thing, and they were underwater most of the time).
They manage to shake off the pursuers, do an emergency surfacing after another system goes wrong (health and safety is not much of a thing either), and find themselves next to a Brazilian warship. The uncivilized Spanish-speaking Brazilians arrest them as saboteurs and are going to shoot them, but by fortunate coincidence a storm blows up and distracts the slipshod Brazilian navy crew enough that the brave Americans can escape. There's a completely uncalled-for dig at the fact that the Brazilians are brown-skinned.
They cruise to the location of the wreck and, after a bit of searching, find it and carry off the gold without a hitch, exiting just as their rivals come on the scene.
I've left out the subplot about Tom's bully, the spoiled son of a wealthy banker, getting his comeuppance (again) in a rather immature prank-for-prank exchange.
The other notable feature for me was that two of the characters had verbal tics, but Tom wasn't one of them - he didn't say or do things adverbially, which disappointed me, because I love a Tom Swifty. Perhaps this only developed later in the series. One of the tics I found amusing: a character who, in practically every sentence, blesses some part of his body or one of his possessions ("bless my boots!"), often in a way that connects to whatever is going on. The other I found annoying: the captain they recruit to help them with the submarine, again almost every time he says something, tacks on a phrase like "if you'll forgive the observation" or "if my saying so doesn't offend you," even when he has expressed the blandest and most obvious opinion. The tics are at least 50% of the characterization of these two men.
Probably OK if you're 12, not very knowledgeable, and have no problem with American exceptionalism. But for me, disappointing.
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August 21, 2019After spending lots of time reading boy books written in the mid to late 1800s, I've finally continued my time travel experience to the early 1900s. The Tom Swift series is one of the earliest books in the Stratemeyer Syndicate (think The Bobbsey Twins Series, Hardy Boys Complete Series Set Books 1-66, and Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew. I grew up reading Nancy Drew and I knew that the books I read were re-written in the 1970s. At one point, I read some of the original Nancy Drew books. I knew about the Stratemeyer Syndicate but had never heard of the Tom Swift books until recently. Unlike the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, Tom Swift is not a detective. He is a teen inventor. He's the son of Barton Swift, who is also an inventor.
In this book, Tom and his father invent a submarine and hunt for a shipwreck rumored to have gold. When Tom and his friends, including the eccentric Mr. Damon, take the submarine to search for the gold, they are followed by bad guys. There are many adventures and close calls.
Some reader will have trouble reading about supporting character Eradicate Samson, the "colored" helper, so named (by himself) because he eradicates dirt. All I can say is times were different. What we recognize as racist today was just the way writers wrote African American characters.
Tom was likely modeled off Horatio Alger Jr.'s boy characters. Tom is honest, loyal, and courageous. He gets into frequent spats with the town bully, Andy Foger. Andy is mean and treacherous and lies and steals. Tom never starts a battle but is always very quick to defend himself and always comes out the victor.
In this book, Tom and his father invent a submarine and hunt for a shipwreck rumored to have gold. When Tom and his friends, including the eccentric Mr. Damon, take the submarine to search for the gold, they are followed by bad guys. There are many adventures and close calls.
Some reader will have trouble reading about supporting character Eradicate Samson, the "colored" helper, so named (by himself) because he eradicates dirt. All I can say is times were different. What we recognize as racist today was just the way writers wrote African American characters.
Tom was likely modeled off Horatio Alger Jr.'s boy characters. Tom is honest, loyal, and courageous. He gets into frequent spats with the town bully, Andy Foger. Andy is mean and treacherous and lies and steals. Tom never starts a battle but is always very quick to defend himself and always comes out the victor.
January 30, 2026
I have all but three in this series and have read all but 36 (snark), so I figured I’d better get to it as I also have the Jr. collection, Rick Brants, Tom Corbetts, Tom Quests, and Ken Holts on my shelf.. I grew up around submarines (father, grandfather) but it is clear whoever was Victor Appleton this time didn’t. Yes, this is juvenile fantasy but they could have at least done a little better with the plot details. Made up propulsion system? Not a problem for a fantasy. Listing “gasoline” and batteries as power sources?, well then you had better understand you need to surface to charge batteries and run your engines. The beam of Tom’s dad’s sub was half again as big as the largest submarine in 1910, but even still, refueling apparently wasn’t necessary for an 11,000 nm round trip that amazingly took only a third of the of the maximum time of the fastest sub of the day. All while stopping for breaks and adventures. And setting on the ocean floor isn’t a good thing, which surely people knew back then (but then, the Swift sub can dive three times deeper than the max design depth of a modern sub, so…) What they more probably than not didn’t know was that porpoises couldn’t dive to a mile deep. Having someone paralyzed to an electric conductor? Oooookay. As to adventures, we see Tom doesn’t understand opsec (okay, he’s a kid), there’s a lot of taunting and “they can’t do that! That’s not fair!” stuff. Tom has a bully, but he bullies right back with vandalism. That’s okay, he’s our guy, right? We’ve got the “bless my stars” character back, and a new “if I may be permitted to say” character (that will probably be a one-off.) And what’s the deal with his dad being an “aged inventor”? Tom’s what, about 18? Maybe “Victor” should have said, “elder inventor.” Anyway, moving on to one of the other series before I circle back to Tom Sr.
August 5, 2021
The premise is fun. The plot is cute. The science was speculative and a LOT has been debunked. I laughed a lot through this one, especially regarding the science and the underwater scenes.
As with the other original Tom Swift books, there is a lot to wince about when it comes to how other races and nationalities are described. I don't think it was intentional but it is pervasive. And there is a lot of jingoistic nationalism. There are also some very jarring spots where bullying and fighting are discussed - the idea that almost being killed by a bully, while unacceptable, should not be reported to the police but should be handled with a private thrashing and revenge just did not sit right with me.
What did surprise me, at least a bit, was the way the other nationals reacted to and spoke about Americans. It sounded like a lot of the rhetoric that I hear on news clips from other countries. I did not realize just how long the idea that Americans were privileged brats has been around.
It was still a fun read. The adventure was a blast. The impulsive youthful Tom is often hilarious as he wanders straight into chaos simply by bumbling. The humbly, blushing boy is the kind of hero that would not survive a modern show, but it is still rather adorable. And the sheer number of times I had to ask myself where did they lose the science left me in stitches.
As with the other original Tom Swift books, there is a lot to wince about when it comes to how other races and nationalities are described. I don't think it was intentional but it is pervasive. And there is a lot of jingoistic nationalism. There are also some very jarring spots where bullying and fighting are discussed - the idea that almost being killed by a bully, while unacceptable, should not be reported to the police but should be handled with a private thrashing and revenge just did not sit right with me.
What did surprise me, at least a bit, was the way the other nationals reacted to and spoke about Americans. It sounded like a lot of the rhetoric that I hear on news clips from other countries. I did not realize just how long the idea that Americans were privileged brats has been around.
It was still a fun read. The adventure was a blast. The impulsive youthful Tom is often hilarious as he wanders straight into chaos simply by bumbling. The humbly, blushing boy is the kind of hero that would not survive a modern show, but it is still rather adorable. And the sheer number of times I had to ask myself where did they lose the science left me in stitches.
November 9, 2021
The series continues to improve as Tom and his quirky friends go underwater in his dad's latest invention to find treasure! There are naturally rivals and much excitement as the group visits the southern hemisphere.
The first three books in the series felt so very dated, while this novel was merely dated. A technology that is still exciting and fairly realistic helps. Motoring on a cycle or a boat is quite mundane while the airship in the last novel made little sense next to modern craft, but submarining is still exciting. This might be why 20,000 League is still a hit after many of Verne's other books have become interesting relics.
The next book in the series returns to the roadways in an electric runabout, so we shall see if this improvement is a trend or a high point in the series. There is always Tom Swift Junior to get excited about anyway. Does that mean Tom married his sweetheart Mary Nestor or is Junior a cousin like all the youngsters in the Disney cartoons?
The first three books in the series felt so very dated, while this novel was merely dated. A technology that is still exciting and fairly realistic helps. Motoring on a cycle or a boat is quite mundane while the airship in the last novel made little sense next to modern craft, but submarining is still exciting. This might be why 20,000 League is still a hit after many of Verne's other books have become interesting relics.
The next book in the series returns to the roadways in an electric runabout, so we shall see if this improvement is a trend or a high point in the series. There is always Tom Swift Junior to get excited about anyway. Does that mean Tom married his sweetheart Mary Nestor or is Junior a cousin like all the youngsters in the Disney cartoons?
June 12, 2018
6 out of 10
October 4, 2018
Tom and his dad invented a submarine and did a race for gold against other people. Luckily Tom’s rudder system was better than the enemy shi and they won!
July 25, 2021
A good adventure
With their submarine, Tom and friends go in search of treasure. The submarine has a novel propulsion scheme that is the stuff of science fiction.
With their submarine, Tom and friends go in search of treasure. The submarine has a novel propulsion scheme that is the stuff of science fiction.
November 2, 2023
Eons ago, so I dart-chose 2011. I read all/ most of MegaPack 25 Tom Swift. Taser is short for Tom A. Smith Electronic Rifle. Hot, yeah?
December 6, 2015
Not horrible fast-paced adventure fiction, aimed at early teens. But I'm afraid the scientific inaccuracies piled up too fast and deep for me to ignore them, and I can't give it more than 2 stars. I know it was written in 1910, but diving suits and sharks and giant squids at 2 miles depth? Cruising for days a mile and a half deep? Positive and negative electric plates fore and aft as a propulsion system? And it isn't so easy to tail a submarine as the bad guys manage to do (without sonar, even), rendering that whole plot element absurd. The other bad guys, the Brazilians, just pop in, put our heroes in danger (from which they soon escape), and pop out within a couple of thousand words. Their only purpose is to pad the book out.
The first three books in the series didn't bother me this way. This one seems more dashed out.
The first three books in the series didn't bother me this way. This one seems more dashed out.
October 14, 2020
This is the latest book that I have read in the original series about the adventures of Tom Swift. After his adventures on the land, in the air, and on the surface of the water, he next went below the surface of the water, in a submarine that his father invented. It was originally designed and built to compete for a government contract, but it ended up being used for another purpose -- a trip taken by Tom, his father, and other people from the earlier books. A ship's captain was added to the group because of the purpose of the trip. The submarine may not be up to date in technology, but the submarine was impressive in its description. The story is good, with bad guys, other problems, and eventual triumph. It may be intended for boys, but I read it as I remember reading the Tom Swift books in the late 1950s and early 1960s. I enjoyed it a lot.
July 18, 2013
I'm not sure at what age I read Tom Swift, but I remembered nothing at all, except that he was a boy-inventor. So, I wanted to check it out.
The book had a lot of twists and turns -- I suspect chapters may have been serialized in a newspaper or magazine. It completely lacks teenage angst and cynicism. (Lot's of action-oriented melodrama, no drama.)
The level is probably elementary grades, a bit below the first Harry Potter book. Though it is a bit dated, I think kids might still like it, at that age.
The book had a lot of twists and turns -- I suspect chapters may have been serialized in a newspaper or magazine. It completely lacks teenage angst and cynicism. (Lot's of action-oriented melodrama, no drama.)
The level is probably elementary grades, a bit below the first Harry Potter book. Though it is a bit dated, I think kids might still like it, at that age.
February 22, 2015
Generally I find the Tom Swift novels moderately entertaining as a peek into the past of 100 years ago.
I'm not always sure if I know more than the authors because my education was better than theirs, or if I'm just older and had more time to learn. Or maybe they didn’t want to strain their readers’ credulity. Sometimes knowledge has progressed beyond what was known at the time of writing.
There are many faults to be found within these pages but still, they have something.
I'm not always sure if I know more than the authors because my education was better than theirs, or if I'm just older and had more time to learn. Or maybe they didn’t want to strain their readers’ credulity. Sometimes knowledge has progressed beyond what was known at the time of writing.
There are many faults to be found within these pages but still, they have something.
December 8, 2015
Really interesting to read a 105 year old book on my 61st birthday. Part of it I read in my "man cave" on the 3rd floor. The story was not challenging but the prose was so polite, either because of who wrote it or the times of 1910. Interesting but don't need to do this again. Tom Swift the adventurer!
May 3, 2012
all tom swift books are awsome.
homeschool-past
December 22, 2013Good series
December 18, 2015
Excellent Tom Swift adventure. This one was the first in the original series to have an actual pulp adventure feel to me. The. writing also was a step up from the usual on these sorts of tales.
December 31, 2015
Capital! Good read!
Tom Swift's adventures are great, old stories and wholesome classics! I thoroughly enjoyed it and I definitely recommend reading it
Tom Swift's adventures are great, old stories and wholesome classics! I thoroughly enjoyed it and I definitely recommend reading it
January 2, 2016
Really good old classic young readers book about a young inventor that invents this awesome inventions and then goes on these wild and crazy adventures, sometimes getting into trouble in the process.
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January 26, 2017Kind of tedious and lots of silly science, but I expected that. I haven't read a Tom Swift book before, so it was interesting in that regard.
As a kid, I read the Rick Brant Science/Adventure series, books I still find to be fun to read.
As a kid, I read the Rick Brant Science/Adventure series, books I still find to be fun to read.
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