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Post by greer on Nov 20, 2010 6:37:11 GMT -5
Double posting because it's been a few months. So...these books...is it supposed to be like we're reading their diaries or we're just some random friend that they're telling all this to? The last book I read I actually stopped and thought "Who is she talking to when she said she would explain something later? Is she talking to . . . me?!" Lol. The back covers have the statement "The best friends you'll ever have!" on them. I never realized how depressing that sounds. Did these books manipulate little lonely girls into thinking they had friends? when I was a kid, it was true for me because I didn't have friends. /depressing
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 16, 2010 14:05:02 GMT -5
We love you, greer! :-)
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Post by starrynight on Dec 16, 2010 18:52:54 GMT -5
Double posting because it's been a few months. The last book I read I actually stopped and thought "Who is she talking to when she said she would explain something later? Is she talking to . . . me?!" Lol. The back covers have the statement "The best friends you'll ever have!" on them. I never realized how depressing that sounds. Did these books manipulate little lonely girls into thinking they had friends? when I was a kid, it was true for me because I didn't have friends. /depressing I agree with Wenonah......you have us whether you want us or not!
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 19, 2010 12:58:48 GMT -5
Yep When I was younger in elementary school I did have a core group of friends, nothing like the BSC, but "friends" nonetheless, inlcuding a couple closer ones. Probably the best, truest friend I may have ever had actually was in 3rd grade until she moved. My junior high school years were awful. By the time HS came, I just wanted to be "done" with school. Like elementary school, I had a few closer friends, really one better one. Those BSC gals (when not fighting) were very lucky.
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Post by wenonah4th on Dec 31, 2010 13:52:46 GMT -5
We have to wonder how close any of them stayed ten years on.
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Post by zoar3 on Dec 31, 2010 19:09:48 GMT -5
^By the end of the Series, I think without the BSC, they probably would not have stayed friends, or certainly not daily in touch friends. Mary Anne "chose" Dawn over Kristy. Whether MA truly cared about Dawn was somewhat debatable (MA very passive/aggressive regarding Dawn and in instances when she threw the mug, seemed more about controlling their "friendship" (or Dawn) then anything else. To be fair, we never did see Kristy do much to maintain/rekindle? her possibly once bff with MA either. The rest of the members, we barely knew them anymore by "The Fire at MA's House." It almost seemed like Stacey and Mal by virtue of their location (before Riverbend) were closer to one another than to the others. I don't know. I do hope they did stay friends and as Kristy said that she, MA, Claudia, and Dawn, would always be apart of the BSC."
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Post by thejunkbucket on Sept 28, 2015 6:13:21 GMT -5
By the time Claire strikes being 1 year old: Mal is 7, Triplets 6, Vanessa 5, Nicky 4, and Margo 2. Lo and behold the "problem" has not been resolved. Nicky is still left out! The gap was betwixt Margo and Claire, so Margo would be 3 when Claire turned 1. If you think about it, Mrs. Pike was pregnant for 5 straight years!!! I don't even want to imagine the wear and tear that body took, especially with triplets.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Nov 21, 2015 14:26:42 GMT -5
We have to wonder how close any of them stayed ten years on. I somehow doubt none of them really stayed friends. Some of them will but all of them? Nope.
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Post by bscfan1997 on Nov 21, 2015 15:11:33 GMT -5
I love the BSC, of course, (why else would I be on a BSC forum?), but there are a LOT of unrealistic things in the series. As a kid, I always thought it was weird that the eleven year olds babysat the ten year olds. I wondered how Claudia was able to hide junk food and Nancy Drew without getting caught by her parents. I thought it was funny that they never babysat between 5:30 and 6 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I thought the girls were given way too much freedom (the BSC led me to believe that 13 was a magical age ). The age gap between the pike kids I thought of. I never thought of the notebook thing and the boyfriend things. The boys at SMS seemed way toooo mature for 11-13. I never thought of the Jessi's black, the Ann Hates Mal, how dorky Mal was, Dawn and her vegetarian habits, the California and New York stereotyping until about a few years ago. Also, I had no idea the BSC books were ghostwritten. I used to think that Ann wrote ALL the books. I found out about the ghosties I think about three years ago lol. Oh, yeah, even as a kid, I thought the BSC was pretty much a clique. I used to want more age variety, too. Just two eleven year olds and eight thirteen year olds (I'm counting Abby and Logan and Shannon). Why weren't there 12 year olds part of the club? Even just one or two would've been neat. Or 14 year olds? Oh, well. I also thought it was unrealistic of the 8th graders being friends with the 6th graders.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Nov 22, 2015 0:38:11 GMT -5
The eleven year olds babysitting wasn't too uncommon for the 80/90s. But for a year younger than them was a little strange.
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Post by thejunkbucket on Nov 30, 2015 15:44:26 GMT -5
nostalgiachick, I was still being babysat at age 11 in the early '90s. That stopped when I was 12, because my parents divorced, and it was my dad who insisted that I have a sitter. In fact, my dad continued to get me a sitter until I was 14. It was strange, at home with Mom I would stay home alone, sometimes for the entire weekend, when my mom would visit her boyfriend, but on the weekends when I'd visit Dad, I had to have a sitter.
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Post by CharlotteTJohanssen on Nov 30, 2015 22:39:50 GMT -5
^ That's a little strange but at least you got alone time at your moms place.
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