jen
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Post by jen on Jul 10, 2006 18:35:54 GMT -5
I just read this one, and I have to say... "Ergh". It seemed so rushed. Are all the mysteries like this? I swear that in most of them, the plot development and the solving of the mystery happens more slowly. This is just chapter after chapter of non-stop mystery. Except for the sub-plot, which is completely pointless. Or maybe it just felt like that because it's the first time that I read a brand new BSC book in ages...
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Post by greer on Jul 10, 2006 20:33:17 GMT -5
What was the subplot, anyway? i don't even remember.
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jen
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Post by jen on Jul 11, 2006 3:29:44 GMT -5
Charlotte read Harriet the Spy and went around spying on her friends.
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Post by greer on Jul 27, 2006 15:02:49 GMT -5
Harriet the Spy was used so often for a subplot, or at least a plotpoint... SS#1, for instance.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2006 21:52:48 GMT -5
This book just plain sucked. I didn't even really finish it if I recall, I rushed through the ending. It just seemed so far-fetched even for a BSC book. Ugh.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2006 21:32:31 GMT -5
I just picked up this book at a Half Price recently. I have to admit I got a little scared reading it (I probably need to stop reading so late at night, it's so much easier to get freaked out late at night) like when Kristy said she was looking in the house and saw someone looking back at her. But I was really disappointed with the ending. It was so rushed, and I kept expecting Golem to not be Golem but someone impersonating Golem or something. Instead it was just like "He's going to jail! The end! Let's not solve myseteries anymore!"
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Post by greer on Aug 6, 2006 21:53:41 GMT -5
The whole book was just a setup for them to no longer solve mysteries. it fell pretty flat.
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jen
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Post by jen on Aug 7, 2006 5:30:07 GMT -5
It seems like a strange number to stop, too. 36! Why not 35? Or 40? Actually, come to think of it, 131 seems to be a weird place to end the regular series as well...
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 30, 2007 16:29:20 GMT -5
It was kind of fun to read this one and see Kristy & Co. constantly leap to the wrong conclusions all the way through it. Ha ha ha, you silly thirteen-year-old baby-sitters thought you were the most awesome detectives. Overconfident much? I've got to admit, though, I thought that Golem and Sergeant Winters were in on it together. I didn't know it would be just Golem acting alone.
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msstock87
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Post by msstock87 on Jan 30, 2007 19:55:05 GMT -5
I barely remember anything about this book....I remember though the one time I read it, I felt really disappointed at the end.
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Post by gabbie on Jan 31, 2007 11:28:38 GMT -5
I aquired this one recently and I thought it was really stupid. See you silly girls you aren't actually smarter than the detectives.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 2, 2007 0:41:40 GMT -5
I didn't like this one, either. Cary really creeps me out and I try to avoid books that feature him.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Feb 2, 2007 12:05:23 GMT -5
I like Cary, actually. But it was really weird to read this book where they get along with Cary and he even comes to a couple of BSC meetings, and then read the next book that comes chronologically in the regular series, which is Kristy in Charge, and it's mainly about how much she and Cary can't stand each other.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 3, 2007 0:40:13 GMT -5
I liked him okay in Kristy in Charge - probably because he's supposed to kind of be a "bad guy" in my books. Maybe that is why Cat Burglar was so weird to me.
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Post by alula on Feb 6, 2007 15:58:31 GMT -5
It seems like if the stuff in Babysitters, Beware! didn't scare them out of the mystery game, I don't quite know why the Cat Burglar would so very much. (Am I thinking of the right one? It's one of my ones in storage).
Also, apparently there's a real Cary Retlin, I mean as in someone with that name who AMM knew--he's mentioned on the acknowledgments page of Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan, along with Ann herself and a Shira Epstein (one of Claudia's seventh grade friends, yes?). I am amused.
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