Encyclopedia Brown vs Cam Jansen
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Encyclopedia Brown vs Cam Jansen
sorry this so retro, but this has been bugging me since I was in 3rd grade (1988).
Who was the better detective? Encyclopdia Brown who never missed a hole in someone's story, or Cam Jansen who had photographic memory and would remember every detail of a crime scene.
Who was the better detective? Encyclopdia Brown who never missed a hole in someone's story, or Cam Jansen who had photographic memory and would remember every detail of a crime scene.
Never read Cam Jansen, but I read all the Brown books, I think. It's probably worth mentioning that there was one case he didn't solve. That girl who was his sidekick did.
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I've read them both (long before 1988), and I far perfered Encylopedia Brown.
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I read quite a fair bit of the Encyclopedia Brown series (both the regulars and the cook-books) and a bit of Cam Jansen, and from the various stories and bits I remember, Brown's detective proweress is far superior to Cam's photographic memory in terms of application.
After all, what's the point of remembering that there was a knife at a chinese resteraunt if you don't know that they only bring knives out for dishes such as steak?
After all, what's the point of remembering that there was a knife at a chinese resteraunt if you don't know that they only bring knives out for dishes such as steak?
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Ultra-condensed Encyclopedia Brown by Book-A-Minute:
http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/sobol.brown.shtml
Ultra-condensed Encyclopedia Brown by Book-A-Minute:
http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/sobol.brown.shtml
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True, but he repaid her by proving that one of her boyfriends was faking getting into a fight for her honor in order to impress her.Trogdor wrote:Never read Cam Jansen, but I read all the Brown books, I think. It's probably worth mentioning that there was one case he didn't solve. That girl who was his sidekick did.
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Meh, saw ultra-condensed Ruroini Kenshin once. THAT was funny shit.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Old but amusing...
Ultra-condensed Encyclopedia Brown by Book-A-Minute:
"I want to mow down a bunch of motherfuckers with absurdly large weapons and relative impunity - preferably in and around a skyscraper. Then I want to fight a grim battle against the unlikely duo of the Terminator and Robocop. The last level should involve (but not be limited to) multiple robo-Hitlers and a gorillasaurus rex."--Uraniun235 on his ideal FPS game
"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force."--Darth Vader
"The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant compared to the power of the Force."--Darth Vader