Tintin In America

This would sound like blasphemy to my younger self, but I really don't think the early Tintin books are all that good. The story is very haphazard, the characters are one-dimensional, and it would all be very predictable if half of the time, the solution to any problem wouldn't be “Tintin has a very lucky escape”.

If my memory isn't completely off, the books get good once Captain Haddock is introduced, and the stories have a proper arc (Le secret de la Licorne was my favorite book as a child). These 30's travel books (Congo, America) simply don't live up to modern standards.