supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Aug 27, 2010 3:07:28 GMT -5
I was on Stacey's side from day one cause sometime around it, I think I was growing away from hanging out with younger acting friends too and turning into a b*tch (the way I put it when looking back but not realizing) but then for awhile I thought she was being impossible cause she reminded me too much of petty people I hung out with, but I'm back to being with Stacey all the way. Maybe the BSC, especially Kristy and Dawn felt inferior or jealous of Stacey being mature, beautiful and in a good relationship at the time, life was good for her then, the BSC had become a burden at that point.
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oldhickory
Sitting For The Arnolds
Heather Loves Boys and Gym
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Post by oldhickory on Aug 27, 2010 10:30:12 GMT -5
^ i agree. unfortunately i was the friend that my friends outgrew and that was really hard, but reading from stacey's point of view reminds me that what you need in a friend when you're young (or the first time you go through 8th grade) isn't necessarily what you need when you're older.
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Post by wiggir13 on Jul 16, 2011 14:56:26 GMT -5
I just read through the posts and think back to when I first read this and I was going through the same thing Stacey was. I loved my friends, but there seemed to be such pressure on being popular etc. I can certainly see how a 13 year old can succumb to that (I know I did). I lost some good friends along the way, but I did finally figure out who I was and who my real friends were in time. I think this book is just really realistic of growing up. I don't know too many people who are still friends with the same people they grew up with. I mean you are friends b/c of accessibly and convenience when you don't have your own transport. As you get older, you find those people you connect with and have things in common with.
Anyway! Whoops rambling on! I did love the verbal smackdown of Kristy. I will say that I probably would have punched MA and Dawn in the face if they showed up at my door and would have told them to go home and chow on some carpet. I felt like what they did was just as petty as Stacey.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jul 16, 2011 17:17:42 GMT -5
Stacey would probably be very unimpressed with how she looks on the cover. Since it's her book, you'd think they would have made her look a bit nicer, haha.
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 16, 2011 18:31:31 GMT -5
I just re-read and was more taken aback by how exaggerated both "sides" were. Both Stacey and the other BSC members seemed OOC. To me what made Stacey truly nasty was that not only did she turn into Laine but the fact that a few books later, following the concert, she suddenly wanted to be back with the BSC, after, of course, making her pros and cons list. That is just mean. I understand, how she was growing up, feeling unsure of where she belonged etc. But what she did to Charlotte, Jamie, and later the BSC was just plain wrong. Oldhickory said: ^ Lol, at the fact this book was during the BSC's 7th year of 8th grade. Stacey should have been 21. Hug, I know how that can be since I was there myself in JHS. I was especially hurt by one friend who in public came to basically ignore me but every once in a blue moon would call or invite me over, remember my birthday or whatever and act the part of my long lost friend. Wiggirl, I am shocked to be saying this, but Dawn gets an iota of a "point" for her spying. I would like to think at least she did it out of care for MA. Not saying it was right just that it warrants the most minute of measurements in +'s. On a more "typical" Dawn note (from me, her un-fan), Burger Town should have kicked her out.
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Post by wiggir13 on Jul 16, 2011 20:20:48 GMT -5
Hmmmm so should I add the spying to my pro list of Dawn
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 16, 2011 20:58:19 GMT -5
Stacey spied on Robert at the movie theater just a few books after this one, so IMO it just makes her look like a bigger B in this one. Stacey is to me what Dawn is to zoar3. That rhymes. I am Vanessa Pike.
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 16, 2011 21:41:54 GMT -5
^Nah, I don't think she warrants that much of an effort, Wiggirl. Sparklymouse, I forgot about that. Is that before they break up?
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Post by wiggir13 on Jul 16, 2011 22:09:31 GMT -5
Oh dear sparklymouse. I hope you don't plan on now writing in rhyme
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supprazz
Sitting For The Newtons
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Post by supprazz on Jul 17, 2011 0:29:14 GMT -5
Dawn thinks she's Harriet the Spy or Nancy Drew, this wasn't the first time she did it. Doing it for Mary Anne? Yeah right...
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 17, 2011 11:28:17 GMT -5
^I was trying to actually think the best of Dawn simply because in this case it was (slightly) possible she had a better motive than usual.
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Post by sparklymouse on Jul 17, 2011 19:07:44 GMT -5
^Nah, I don't think she warrants that much of an effort, Wiggirl. Sparklymouse, I forgot about that. Is that before they break up? I'm pretty sure it was before she went to NYC and lined up her next boyfriend.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jul 17, 2011 19:16:02 GMT -5
Dawn thinks she's Harriet the Spy or Nancy Drew, this wasn't the first time she did it. Doing it for Mary Anne? Yeah right... I can see her doing it for MA, kind of like leading a crusade that way. Sometimes Dawn is ridiculous. She'd probably b*tch at her later for being "weak" even though Dawn is an enabler.
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 17, 2011 21:07:58 GMT -5
Thanks, Sparklymouse. That wasn't when someone spied on Pete at the movies was it and noticed his new haircut? I think the Pete thing was in a Friends Forever.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Jul 19, 2011 12:03:18 GMT -5
^ That happened in #99. Stacey wasn't spying on Pete, she was spying on Robert.
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