jen
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Post by jen on Mar 25, 2006 8:14:41 GMT -5
They guessed?
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Mar 26, 2006 15:46:37 GMT -5
Ha! I thought I was the only one who noticed Stacey's thunder thighs! What about Mal? Her hips are enormously too big for her body. I guess on other covers she just covers that up with clothes. And about how the We Heart Kids Club clients know when to call, I always figured that they knew when to call by word-of-mouth.
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macca
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Post by macca on Mar 26, 2006 19:38:35 GMT -5
Maybe childbearing hips run in the family?!
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Mar 26, 2006 22:04:39 GMT -5
Lol Macca. Well, the pics of Mrs. Pike in Mal's scrapbook look as if she is a frail woman. I guess she's just plain exhausted.
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Post by hitzpink on Mar 28, 2006 18:40:32 GMT -5
What are you guys talking about?! Mal looked totally hot on this cover!
I hated Kristy's chapters with Erik and Ryan. So freakin' boring. I can't get over the way that these girls always end up baby-sitting when they go on vacation!
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macca
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Post by macca on Mar 28, 2006 21:52:45 GMT -5
^ Maybe they think the readers will be upset if they don't include babysitting, because it's a babysitting series? They were wrong, IMO. I found most of the babysitting subplots annoying and wanted to get back to the girls' lives.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 29, 2006 17:54:17 GMT -5
Me too macca. I liked the middle school drama, wasn't really interested about the sitting. Especially when they were sitting for kids who would never be in another book. Why should I care about some kid that's in maybe 20 pages of one book? It's not enough time to even develop a character.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Mar 31, 2006 3:20:32 GMT -5
I always wondered, do 10 year old kids like reading about 13 year old kids babysitting 10 year old kids or younger? Or are they more interested in the drama that goes on in the girls' lives? My sister is 12, and she wants to babysit. She says that the series sometimes give good babysitting tips, so she reads it for that.
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Post by hitzpink on Mar 31, 2006 20:39:45 GMT -5
^When I was 10, I loved reading about what was going on in the girls' lives. I still do, actually! A lot of the babysitting plots are boring to me, but I never tire of reading about Mary Anne telling Dawn to get out of her life for forgetting to give her a phone message.
And I agree that reading about kids we'd never see again was the worst! Absolutely pointless.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Mar 31, 2006 21:17:58 GMT -5
And I agree that reading about kids we'd never see again was the worst! Absolutely pointless. And some of those kids seemed like they had good potential to be really interesting characters if they were given the chance to be in more books.
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macca
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Post by macca on Mar 31, 2006 22:42:30 GMT -5
I wish the books had featured those racist Lowell kids again. They just disappeared from the face of the earth.
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Post by inge on Apr 1, 2006 12:15:56 GMT -5
There were definetely a lot of interesting kids that just dissapeared or were never mentioned again, but were just used for the story. Why didn't they use the regular clients? That would've made it a little more interesting. I never liked the babysitting parts either, though, I just never mentioned that before, because, well, these ARE books about a babysittersclub, so I figured everyone else did like those parts. Good too hear some of you found them less interesting, too Back on topic - I liked this book, but it was totally unrealistic in the translation. In the Dutch books the girls live in the Netherlands and Dawn is from Surinam. Somewhere in the vacation they just decide to fly to Los Angeles, with a bunch of kids! The distance from Paramaribo (the capital of Surinam) to Los Angeles is just a little shorter than the distance between Paramaribo and Amsterdam. It just gave the book a stupid, unrealistic twist for me.
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jen
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Post by jen on Apr 3, 2006 7:14:31 GMT -5
So they flew to LA with some kids for the sole purpose of baby-sitting? Wow, that's crazy!
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Apr 22, 2006 23:55:44 GMT -5
When they go on that European Vacation in a SS, is it still called a European Vacation because, you know, if they were in the Netherlands then they would already be in Europe?
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jen
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Post by jen on Apr 23, 2006 0:04:28 GMT -5
Ooh, that's a good question! Did the entire series get translated? Maybe they called it "London and Paris Vacation For Some, and Stoneybrook Summer Camp For The Rest".
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