|
Post by booboobrewer on Apr 24, 2007 15:43:28 GMT -5
Oh, no worries - I just like scouring the board for old threads if a book happens to have multiple ones
|
|
|
Post by aln1982 on Apr 24, 2007 17:36:36 GMT -5
Can you find the other Dawn on the Coast thread? I have searched and am almost positive I posted on it a few weeks ago (or maybe just last week) but can not find it anywhere.
|
|
|
Post by booboobrewer on Apr 24, 2007 19:51:27 GMT -5
That's weird. Just tried looking, couldn't find one.
|
|
lilafowler
Sitting For The Johanssens
Posts: 1,163
|
Post by lilafowler on Apr 24, 2007 20:00:10 GMT -5
Yeah, I can't be bothered to search through all million pages for a particular thread unless I really REALLY want to say something about a book that isn't on the first page or so. The search never works for me.
|
|
|
Post by sotypical42483 on Apr 24, 2007 22:31:25 GMT -5
The search function on this board is totally jacked up. However, I do remember discussing things from Dawn on the Coast, just like aln, but I'm thinking now they had to have been in another CA related thread cause I honestly looked through all the pages for DotC before making a new one and I know aln looked too! I don't think we'd BOTH miss it!
|
|
inge
Junior Sitter
Posts: 767
|
Post by inge on Apr 25, 2007 12:20:44 GMT -5
The search function on this board is totally jacked up. However, I do remember discussing things from Dawn on the Coast, just like aln, but I'm thinking now they had to have been in another CA related thread cause I honestly looked through all the pages for DotC before making a new one and I know aln looked too! I don't think we'd BOTH miss it! that's what I was saying, too. There have been a lot of California related threads lately, we must've discussed it in there.
|
|
|
Post by aln1982 on Apr 25, 2007 16:12:36 GMT -5
I just realized there WAS a search function on the boards. I've never used it. Now it sounds like this probably doesn't matter and I shouldn't bother. As for this book, I think it is one of my least favorites. Claudia is especially annoying and dumb and I could have choked her about a hundred times while reading it (I'm frustrated tonight anyway if you are sensing hostility - I didn't actually hate the book that much). Even Janine didn't redeem it for me. I also wish that her parents would have done something about the situation, though I know it was her fault for not letting them. I don't particularly care for Mr. and Mrs. Kishi anyway and this book is one of the ones in which I like them the least.
|
|
|
Post by Kylie90210 on Aug 21, 2007 21:29:17 GMT -5
I agree with pretty much all the comments people have made... Claud should have told her parents, they should have believed her, Mr Z shouldn't have accused anyone, and Janine was cool
|
|
|
Post by GingerSnaps on Nov 19, 2008 18:46:27 GMT -5
I just bought this book at a library sale yesterday and read it for the first time. I also loved Janine Especially at the very end where she's celebrating with Claudia and the rest of the BSC, and makes that joke about Gertrude!
|
|
|
Post by candykane on Nov 19, 2008 19:06:49 GMT -5
Gertrude is the person making cookies in the math problem that Claudia works on in the first chapter. The book opens with Janine and Claudia discussing the problem, Claudia figures out the answer, and feels smart as a result.
|
|
|
Post by candykane on Nov 20, 2008 16:04:18 GMT -5
Are you referring to Claudia? I don't think Claudia is dumb, although many other people seem to. I just think she's lazy and careless when it comes to school.
|
|
fluffycakes
Junior Sitter
A silken-haired beauty with a laugh like pealing bells
Posts: 868
|
Post by fluffycakes on Nov 20, 2008 22:09:37 GMT -5
I don't think Claudia is dumb, although many other people seem to. I just think she's lazy and careless when it comes to school. I agree. Even though I joke about it, I don't think she's dumb. She seems to get more stupid as the series progresses, but I think that's thanks to the ghostwriters. I do think she has a learning disability (or two), as you'll see in my reply in the "Psychiatric Diagnoses" thread, but having a learning disability doesn't make you stupid. I really feel for Claudia in this book. Yeah, she should've told her parents, but then we wouldn't have a story. Poor girl, the first time we see her work hard at school and she gets accused of cheating. I thought her "I don't care, I'm giving up" attitude was pretty realistic and something that a lot of kids her in place would feel. I love Janine in this book. She's completely made of win. And I love her (lame) little Gertrude joke at the end of the book, it was too cute. ;D
|
|
|
Post by icequeen on Nov 21, 2008 5:42:42 GMT -5
^ Yep its correct
I think Claudia can be lazy sometimes, regarding school work. Then again I guess its not just lazyness, its her attitude towards it. She's just not interested so she doesnt care. I was a little bit like that in school (REALLY laidback attitude about my work) and I kinda regret it now....
Poor Claud! The one test she studies like mad for and actually feels confident she knows the work, she gets accused of cheating in!!! If something like this happened in real life (teachers making assumptions of whom the cheater is) would the teacher be in trouble?
|
|
starrynight
Sitting For The Kuhns
The Royal Diner of Pizza Express
Posts: 4,004
|
Post by starrynight on Nov 21, 2008 11:53:22 GMT -5
Now that I'm older, I really can't understand why they didn't just give a new test to both of them, but the idea never occured to me as a kid. One more thing to add to the list of BSC things I never thought about before.
I ALWAYS pictured Mr. Zorzi looking like he did on the cover of this book, but I think Shawna looks and awful lot like Stacey does on some of her covers.
|
|
nothingtolose18
Sitting For The Johanssens
Mal / Sam / Price / Ben
Posts: 1,059
|
Post by nothingtolose18 on Nov 29, 2008 2:31:14 GMT -5
^ She really does. I remember thinking, when I looked at the cover of that book for the first time "Hey, why is Stacey smirking at Claudia?" lol.
I really like this book (probably because it was one of my firsts; not the first, but one of the first few, I think). I think the title is a bit misleading, though. It's really not much of a mystery. Claud knows that she didn't cheat; it was obviously Shawna. It was just a matter of proving it.
|
|