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Post by sotypical42483 on Jul 10, 2006 12:20:12 GMT -5
OMG, lovelylemontree, I totally thought the same thing about Wes' car! I just re-read this one. I mean seriously, that'd be a 1999 car today, I would hardly imagine it'd be that junky. My sister drives a '96 and it isn't being held together with rope! Anyway, I liked this book! I love the part when Stacey thinks Elvira is a human baby. Cracks me up. I don't like subplots involving the Stones/Elvira though, so I did skip a bunch of those chapters. I also love when Stacey walks in class and is like "OMG TOM CRUISE!!" Oh, and when she's like, totally depressed at the thought of having a sub for 3 weeks. I mean seriously, get a grip, Stacey. Love how she spends so much time getting her homework 100% correct and then copying it in her "best handwriting" and she even acknowledges the heart over the i!! No way would a teacher request a student stay after and help him "organize files". Stupid. And there would definitely be no rides home or DANCING TOGETHER!! WTF! I'm 23 and I don't know a single guy who looks like Wes does on that cover. He looks like he's 35. Its funny to read this at 23 and read about all the girls freaking out about how old he is
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Post by jen on Jul 10, 2006 18:27:47 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!" Haha, that's awesome. Oh, and one more thing... Stacey added jokes in her homework so she wouldn't seem to nerdy? How?! Isn't maths homework just numbers? Would she write "a+a=2a hehe" or something like that?
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Post by lilafowler on Jul 10, 2006 21:26:08 GMT -5
^I wondered the same thing! Plus, wouldn't MATH jokes make you seem even nerdier?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2006 22:11:22 GMT -5
It's nice that SMS has a plethora of school dances where the BSC drama can unfold--I remember being disturbed by the cover--not just at Wes intently and sullenly filling a cup of punch, but with the dozens and dozens of balloons (or balls?) that seem to float at different levels in the air of the gym. Seriously, some are just above kids' heads, some are clustered above the banner. What was up with that?
And what's with BSC members dancing with teachers? I know Kristy was dancing with a teacher as well. That never happened in any other books, or you know, in real life.
I was always a fan of Stacey books. She could do no wrong in my eyes. I loved her sophisticated schtick. Here, of course, she was incredibly cringe-inducing and laaame. What's with her wanting to find the average of her class without a calculator when she's helping Wes? I'm sure Wes was nudging a calculator towards her...hell, I would have chucked it at her head. He's got places to go, other 13 year old girls to be obsessing over him.
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Post by jen on Jul 11, 2006 7:17:45 GMT -5
Well, she's a maths whiz, don'tcha know? What I didn't get was how Wes had to check the averages after Stacey worked them out... If he had to check, why get her to do them in the first place? Surely that's unnecessary work.
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Post by inge on Jul 11, 2006 10:45:12 GMT -5
And what's with BSC members dancing with teachers? I know Kristy was dancing with a teacher as well. That never happened in any other books, or you know, in real life. I think they made Kristy dance withg a teacher so it wouldn't seem so weird that Stacey danced with one. I didn't really work, though, it was still really, really weird. Dancing with a teacher... risking sounding like a real teenager, but: eww.
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Post by lovelylemontree on Jul 11, 2006 11:40:52 GMT -5
I assume they were word problems. When I had word problems in school, we always had to answer in complete sentences.
The staying after school and dancing doesn't bother me, but the ride home was rather inappropriate. I chalk it up to Wes being young and inexperienced. He might not see the line between student and teacher yet. He obviously didn't realize that spending time alone with a thirteen-year-old girl might look very bad for him.
Kristy was dancing with Mr. Fiske, which I find funny.
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Post by starrynight on Jul 17, 2006 14:35:15 GMT -5
Didn't students dance with teachers in "Baby Sitters' Winter Vacation" too, or am I just crazy?
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Post by lilafowler on Jul 17, 2006 17:16:46 GMT -5
When I was in middle school, the teachers were too busy separating students who were practically having sex on the dance floor to get their own collective freak on at dances. I know we discussed the remarkable chastity of Stoneybrook adolescents in the BSC + Too Many Boys thread, but the way kids danced during my middle school affairs? Would have gotten Wes thrown in jail if he got into it with Stacey.
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Post by macca on Jul 18, 2006 1:01:16 GMT -5
Wes seemed extremely naive in that respect. He wasn't a perv in the slightest, but his pleas of ignorance would be laughable in today's society. There's a lot of talk in the media about teacher/student "encounters" - not entirely surprising when you consider how prematurely sexual middle schoolers are in this day and age. Even a truly innocent teacher would have to be careful.
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Post by baseballchica03 on Jan 13, 2007 2:44:27 GMT -5
I was always a fan of Stacey books. She could do no wrong in my eyes. I loved her sophisticated schtick. Oh, man, I hated Stacey books. She was so vapid and annoying, apart from being totally good at math. It was bad enough when she showed up in subplots, much less her own books. I wanted to shove her little heart-dotted "i"s down her perfect little "sophisticated" throat. (I was always much more like Kristy. It seems to me that without the BSC, Kristy and Stacey would never be friends. Or, more accurately, Stacey would never give Kristy the time of day and Kristy would spend endless hours making fun of her [probably Claudia, too]. And Dawn would be too cool for all of them. But I digress.) I don't think I ever read this one the first time around, but I just finished it up tonight. Painful. So painful. Worse than any of the other Stacey crushes thus far. It was embarassing just to read it. Ouch. I've had crushes on teachers before, but I've never been delusional enough to think that they "luuuuuuved" me.
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Post by alula on Jan 13, 2007 21:58:27 GMT -5
OMG, lovelylemontree, I totally thought the same thing about Wes' car! I just re-read this one. I mean seriously, that'd be a 1999 car today, I would hardly imagine it'd be that junky. My sister drives a '96 and it isn't being held together with rope! Me, too! I mean, I drive a '97 car, but it's been through three blizzards and two tornadoes in outdoor parking, plus three years on two college campuses, including one spot between two frat houses and a place rented by guys who juggled all day long, and MY car isn't nearly that junky. Is Wes, like, secretly drag racing the thing on weekends? And oh, that poem. Sooo bad. I haven't reread this one, because it's part of my set in storage, but now I keep imagining Wes jumping on the desk a la Tom Cruise on Oprah while Stacey smiles dazedly in the background.
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Post by sugarmonkey on Jan 14, 2007 13:48:32 GMT -5
Yeah, Wes looking like Tom Cruise is just yucky and annoying to me now. I never liked Cruise, but after his recent publicity, I can't stand him. I try to imagine Wes looking like someone else.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2007 13:44:57 GMT -5
Yuck indeed. When I picture someone looking like Tom Cruise I picture someone with mangled teeth. I imagined Wes to look like he did on the cover I had, all smouldery and stuff.
To be honest, I hated the book. I can't stand stuff that is so embarrassing to read, it makes me squirm. And this book was definitely squirm-inducing.
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Post by hitzpink on Jan 15, 2007 19:57:33 GMT -5
Ok, I LOVED this book! Am I the only one? I thought Stacey was so cute in it. Yeah, the poem was lame and she went a little overboard....but she's 13 years old! I loved how she was constantly looking for "signs" from Wes, because I totally used to do the same thing when I had crushes at that age. Everything my crush said and did was subject to scrutiny and obsession, just like Wes was. I thought Stacey was pretty realistic of a giddy teenager in luv.
I also liked how Stacey wore dresses for two weeks straight because she had convinced herself that Wes liked them better than pants. Oh, and Jessi on the cover is awesome. I have no idea why she's there, though. lol.
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