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Post by sillybillygoogoo on Aug 25, 2008 16:15:43 GMT -5
Pamela was the new girl/snob in Karen's class. She was in Karen's sleepover mainly, but she appeared in a few other books. Mostly I remember Karen was always sticking her tongue out at her. So ... is Pamela really a snob, or just misunderstood?
Edited to avoid double posting, but in "Karen's candy", Karen hits pamela, ( I think Karen was asking for trouble, but that's just my opinion) and they get banned from the Halloween parade, so they end up working together to sneak in the parade, and never tell anyone about it. It kind of secretly brings them together, I think. That was a time when pamela was pretty nice, or atleast better. I think she was always trying to be mature, because maybe she wanted to be like her older sister, and that is how her sister acted. In all fairness, Karen did the same thing with Kristy, it just happens that Kristy was nicer than pamela's sister.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 25, 2008 16:39:18 GMT -5
I think she was truly a snob. She was like a mini Mean Girl and would have been powerless if her two friends ever got sick of her.
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Post by candykane on Aug 25, 2008 17:18:15 GMT -5
I didn't like Pamela at all in "Karen's Sleepover." Refused to eat pizza because it'd give her bad breath, refused to sleep in a sleeping bag, made fun of their movie choice (Wizard of Oz, natch), made fun of Karen's cat and blanket, implied Karen was a baby, etc. I don't even like Karen that much, but Pamela was rather bratty.
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Post by Karen Brewer on Aug 25, 2008 18:41:13 GMT -5
There were a few moments in the Little Sister series were Pamela was nice to Karen (making her a paper flower to apologize for teasing her in Karen's Half-Birthday, and making her a card that said 2Sweet 2Be 4Gotten in Karen's Big Move) but most of the time she was a snob along with her followers Jannie and Leslie.
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Post by candykane on Aug 25, 2008 19:46:50 GMT -5
I haven't read all of the LS books, so I missed any instances of Pamela being nice to Karen.
Pamela reminded me of girls I knew in elementary school who seemed older than they really were, and thought they were cool. So I could always relate to the times that Karen felt babyish around her.
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Post by greer on Aug 25, 2008 19:50:45 GMT -5
candykane, what book is your sig quote from?
i haven't read enough ls books to see pamela being nice, either.
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Post by bsclover18 on Aug 25, 2008 20:26:02 GMT -5
I think Pamela acts like a snob to get attention, but inside, she's jealous of Karen.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 26, 2008 1:22:55 GMT -5
candykane, I love that Claud quote. I remember reading it but forgot which book it's from.
I'm also one who can't really remember any instances of Pamela being nice.
She also seemed way too blase in her first book (Karen's Sleepover), which is kind of strange for such a young kid. She does act differently than this in other books, though.
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Post by wenonah4th on Aug 26, 2008 6:18:32 GMT -5
She probably got the whole blase act from the much-older (16?) sister.
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Post by candykane on Aug 26, 2008 8:45:18 GMT -5
That Claudia quote is from "Claudia and the Bad Joke." It's on page 52.
And I agree about Pamela's could-care-less attitude being something she copied from her older sister. I remember in "Karen's Sleepover," Pamela said she had a 16-year-old sister who let her borrow her perfume. I also remember Karen being awed by the outfit Pamela was wearing on her first day at Stoneybrook Academy. She had tennis shoes with the tongues rolled down (why is that cool?), and a fashionable hat that the teacher didn't make her take off.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Sept 7, 2008 19:08:34 GMT -5
Pamela reminded me of girls I knew in elementary school who seemed older than they really were, and thought they were cool. So I could always relate to the times that Karen felt babyish around her. Same here. |
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Post by supprazz on Sept 16, 2008 6:27:25 GMT -5
just what kind of books does pamela's mom write?
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Post by booboobrewer on Sept 20, 2008 20:21:27 GMT -5
Children's books, most likely? I don't think it said, for all we know she wrote romance novels.
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Post by cokiemason on Oct 24, 2008 1:58:38 GMT -5
I think it said children's books...
I remember that one, candykane, with Pamela's first day... I remember 'with the tongues rolled down' being in italics, like it was the coolest, most unheard of thing EVER!
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Post by wenonah4th on Oct 24, 2008 6:05:02 GMT -5
I can't imagine how they'd stay rolled down!
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