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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 25, 2007 16:37:50 GMT -5
Eric and Ryan DeWitt were so blah and annoying...I also couldn't stand them. Their mom was an actress who did commericals and I always got the vague impression she was modeled a bit after Mrs. Barrett, a less zany CA version of her.
I loved when they would turn down a job on vacation (which wasn't often) like in NY, NY when Kristy and Jessi say they don't want to spend their time in the city showing two little kids all the sights. It was refreshing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2007 17:31:28 GMT -5
I'll read the babysitting chapters if there's something fun going on. If it's yet another charity project demonstrating the BSC's most noble selflessness, I'll skip right through it
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Post by hitzpink on Jan 25, 2007 19:12:27 GMT -5
^Those ones are the worst!! I really hate it when the entire subplot (or, worse, the main plot!) centers around the latest carnival/camp/performance the BSC is organizing for all the kids.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2007 21:13:06 GMT -5
Amen to that! I just finished re-reading "Keep Out Claudia" - and it was all I could do not to scream in frustration while reading about the stupid "All the Children" 'band'...
I actually think this was one of the most stupid and most unrealistic babysitting plots in these books. How am I to suspend my disbelief long enough to think that it was even possible for a whole group of children (some only 3 years old), to be able to play the music from "Fiddler on the Roof" so that its recognizable without ever having seen sheet music. Ugh.
Most of the time, I can sit through the babysitting chapters...and sometimes even enjoy them...but this was just too unbelievable for words.
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Post by liss31d on Jan 26, 2007 4:26:22 GMT -5
I think Marilyn and Shea who were playing the keyboards did have sheet music, but I'm not sure about the other kids... still it's pretty weird that the BSC did this in the first place as none of them even play instruments themselves, how are they supposed to improve the band??
Haha that book was one of the first books I read and for a while I thought that the Rodowsky boys were an all girls family ;D
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Post by inge on Jan 26, 2007 6:18:30 GMT -5
The band subplot I agree, is the worst. And it's actually mentioned more than the main plot of that book. Blah!
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 26, 2007 11:52:45 GMT -5
haha I forgot about that band thing til reading this thread. How boring. I wonder why there wasn't a band geek in the BSC. Mallory seems like she'd be into band.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 26, 2007 20:06:32 GMT -5
The go-cart race subplot in Abby and the Notorious Neighbor was so boring. There's a chapter about kids building go-carts, and another chapter about kids building go-carts, and then a chapter about kids racing the go-carts. Blecch. So. dull. and. pointless.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2007 22:28:38 GMT -5
The band subplot I agree, is the worst. And it's actually mentioned more than the main plot of that book. Blah! Agreed...and this may have been what I found so annoying about it. I actually found the (sub)plot about the Lowells really interesting and wanted to read more about it. Unfortunately the rest of the book became about the stupid band and they rarely touched on the Lowells again.
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Post by digigirl02 on Jan 26, 2007 22:45:16 GMT -5
haha I forgot about that band thing til reading this thread. How boring. I wonder why there wasn't a band geek in the BSC. Mallory seems like she'd be into band. Well the closest thing they have is Anna. (although she isn't a member though)
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Post by aln1982 on Jan 27, 2007 16:42:58 GMT -5
The go-cart race subplot in Abby and the Notorious Neighbor was so boring. There's a chapter about kids building go-carts, and another chapter about kids building go-carts, and then a chapter about kids racing the go-carts. Blecch. So. dull. and. pointless. I had forgotten this subplot - probably because I didn't like the book and found it boring. I think I liked the subplot, though, more than the actual story. I'll have to reread.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 29, 2007 12:19:17 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I forgot about Anna, digigirl. Probably because she's so yawn-inducing.
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Post by sarish on Jun 8, 2008 18:28:34 GMT -5
I really like all the baby-sitting chapters, probably because I babysit a lot. I thought most of the babysitting jobs were great, especially in the ealier books!
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Post by courtky10 on Jun 9, 2008 13:07:23 GMT -5
The babysitting chapters are my favorite -especially when they involve Charlotte or the Pikes.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Jun 9, 2008 21:26:32 GMT -5
^Those ones are the worst!! I really hate it when the entire subplot (or, worse, the main plot!) centers around the latest carnival/camp/performance the BSC is organizing for all the kids. Ugh, I hate that too . As for the baby-sitting chapters themselves, it really depends on the book I'm reading at the time and if it pertains to the story. For example, I refuse to read about the BSC baby-sitting in the Super Specials; I just skip over to the main plot. Same with the Stacey books when she left the BSC (Stacey vs. the BSC, Stacey and the Bad Girls, etc.). I hated how in Stacey and the Bad Girls we're reading all about Stacey's bad crowd who sneaks wine in their socks to a concert and shoplift and then we cut over to Dawn's mopey cousin Amy and her three week visit to Stoneybrook while her parents were in Europe. I mean I know baby-sitting is the main premise of the stories but especially during the later books where there was more drama, the sitting chapters seemed to just be thrown in there randomly, while in the earlier books the sitting chapters tied in with the plot (like Mallory and the Trouble With Twins, one of my favorite early books).
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