Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 25, 2006 2:21:29 GMT -5
To Slytherin: yeah, you're probably right.
To lovely: where was that fanfic?
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inge
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Post by inge on May 25, 2006 8:05:55 GMT -5
This book was the most embarrassing BSC book out there, when Stacey handed her teacher that poem, I just wanted to stop reading. And a teacher giving a student a ride home... nowadays I'm sure that would be a problem for a lot of people, to say the least.
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macca
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by macca on May 25, 2006 20:57:21 GMT -5
Oh, tell me about it! I was cringing, could barely finish that page. It was painful.
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Amalia
Sitting For The Braddocks
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Post by Amalia on May 26, 2006 2:58:43 GMT -5
^ What really had me cringing were her expectations after giving him the poem.
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macca
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Post by macca on May 26, 2006 5:57:22 GMT -5
^ ugh yeah, that too. Honestly, you'd think Stace would be a little less naive.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 15, 2006 15:26:03 GMT -5
I'm in the middle of rereading this one. Oh, poor deluded Stacey. She's going on and on about how she and Wes are beginning a "relationship". It's just sad.
A couple comments about the book so far:
-what is up with Jessi's sassy black girl pose on the cover?
-why is Jessi even on the cover?
-why is Sharon still called "Mrs. Schafer"?
-my friend told me she thinks Wes looks like a forty-year-old male model. Personally, I think he looks like a male escort.
-Stacey's introduction to Elvira never fails to crack me up. Stacey's horror as Mrs. Stone talks about Elvira eating kitchen trash and living in the barn is hysterical. It reminds me of Mallory's "kid" confusion in the fanfic Mallory Pike: College Girl.
-Total "ew" to Wes supposedly looking like Tom Cruise. I loathe Tom Cruise and have never found him attractive. I'm working very hard at imagining Wes looking nothing like him.
It's way back in the ff.net archives. I think it's called "Meet Again".
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lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 15, 2006 19:09:20 GMT -5
Anyone else think Stacey looks Dawnish on the cover of this one? They used this picture of Stacey for the cover of the Chain Letter book, and until I got my own copy of Stacey's Big Crush, I had no idea who was Stacey and who was Dawn on the cover of Chain Letter.
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 15, 2006 20:13:20 GMT -5
I dunno, but it looks as if her head might fall off without her hand to support it!
It's the feminist way, dontch know... to retain your ex-husbands surname after even after remarrying ;D
Tom Cruise seems to become more and more unattractive as the years go by. Stacey's adoration of Wes based on the Tom Cruise-lookalike thing is about as outdated as Bart Simpson blindly idolizing Michael Jackson in the early Simpsons episodes.
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 16, 2006 1:38:53 GMT -5
^How amazing would it be to see someone try to modernize the more dated lines of the BSC?
"Stacey is originally from New York City, so she's really sophisticated. Her mom even lets her get extensions in her hair! Her clothing is always really fashionable, too. She wears things like jeans with a one-inch rise and those gigantic sunglasses that make you look like an insect. She can be a little boy-crazy, too -- she once had a huge crush on a teacher who looked just like Orlando Bloom!"
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 16, 2006 20:43:41 GMT -5
I finished my reread of Stacey's Big Crush this afternoon. It was even more cringe-inducing than I remembered. Dear Lord, Stacey would not give up. She was pathetic.
In the B-plot, Claudia brings a bag of junk food to a freaking goat. WTF, Claudia? What a way to waste your money.
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 17, 2006 5:41:45 GMT -5
I finished my reread of Stacey's Big Crush this afternoon. It was even more cringe-inducing than I remembered. I felt the same way when I re-read it recently. I was like, wow. I don't remember ever actually struggling to read these particular scenes before. Wes was pretty decent though. I think he handled the situation quite well, without humiliating Stacey (well, beyond what was strictly necessary). And Stacey was such a shameless little ditz, if Wes was a perv, he could've totally taken advantage.
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lisa
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Post by lisa on Jun 18, 2006 5:03:09 GMT -5
I dunno, but it looks as if her head might fall off without her hand to support it! They always mentioned how long her legs are, but I don't remember a description of her long neck before...like a giraffe on that cover
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macca
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Post by macca on Jun 18, 2006 5:55:25 GMT -5
^ She was undoubtably long, graceful and willowy... either that or awkward and lanky Mallory would've mentioned her long, swan-like neck in Hello Mallory when she was first checking out Jessi. Or maybe she was too busy drooling over her legs?
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jun 20, 2006 0:20:38 GMT -5
An excerpt from the book:
Okay, what the hell has Wes been doing to his car? It's only seven years old! It should not be held together with rope!
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lilafowler
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Post by lilafowler on Jun 20, 2006 14:01:44 GMT -5
HAHAHA. Good eye, LLT! Maybe fighting off sexually voracious middle-schoolers in his car took a toll on its exterior?
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