macca
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Post by macca on May 1, 2006 18:14:25 GMT -5
Okay, first things first - HER NAME IS NOT COKIE GRAY! Get it right, Ann! Geez. Secondly, WTF is Kristy doing, not telling her parents or anyone in authority when she's receiving actual death threats on a daily basis? Real good message for the intended audience, Ann Thirdly, enough with the feminist crap already. Kristy saying "if I look good at the dance, I want to look good for me" ... she certainly changed her tune in Snowbound! Also, since when is Shannon also a boy-crazy flirt like Stacey? That was never mentioned again. Although it was nice to actually hear from Shannon for once. Normally she's just the associate member briefly mentioned every Chapter Two.
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jen
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Post by jen on May 2, 2006 1:22:39 GMT -5
Heh, maybe Ann got Shannon mixed up with Stacey. I liked the Krushers game in this book! One of the few times I enjoy Krusher subplots.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 2, 2006 1:41:16 GMT -5
I liked this one too. Although I would have liked it to have been Sam after all. Shows how much of a genius he is if he is able to deflect all suspicion from him when he was the obvious suspect in the first place.
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Post by lovelylemontree on May 2, 2006 13:13:48 GMT -5
It was lame for the writers to basically recycle the plot from Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery and even lamer for the BSC to not suspect Cokie from the start.
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Post by inge on May 2, 2006 13:19:41 GMT -5
I thought Bart sending Kristy notes was really sweet. And I also liked to see Shannon, well, mentioned outside of chapter two. Even if it was as an other boycrazy chick, I liked her. I do agree not suspecting Cokie was a bit dumb - and so was not telling the parents... again.
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Post by hitzpink on May 2, 2006 18:21:47 GMT -5
I loved reading about Kristy and Shannon's friendship in this book. It was nice to see that they actually were friends, instead of her just being the girl that lives across the street and fills in for the club occasionally. It was kind of cute of Bart to send Kristy those notes, but I remember thinking some of them were a little weird and just TOO lovey-dovey for a 13 year old. I don't have specific examples off the top of my head, though. I really loved the cover of this book. Kristy and Shannon were cute.
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macca
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Post by macca on May 2, 2006 21:03:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I mean come on. I love you, I love you, I love you. Love (get the picture) your mystery admirer ... ugh, even MA and Logan stopped short of ever actually saying they were in "love".
Total word. Especially since it was almost exactly the same prank - mean letters and all that. Can't they ever have a mystery in the regular series that doesn't revolve around Cokie Mason?
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Post by sotypical42483 on May 3, 2006 11:41:42 GMT -5
hm that IS really weird that Bart was using the word "love". I mean... what even comes out of that? He "loves" her, but in future books he's her kinda-sorta-I-don't-know-boyfriend? I think it was in MA + 2 Many Babies where MA is all embarrassed to use the word "love" to describe how she feels about Logan and they've been dating since God knows when!
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Post by hitzpink on May 3, 2006 18:24:29 GMT -5
Yeah! It's definitely weird that Bart is all "in love" with Kristy in this book, but in future books he's just the guy that walks her home from Krushers practice and takes her to school dances and Kristy won't even call him her boyfriend. However, I actually really like Kristy and Bart in future books. They seem to have a realistic relationship/friendship for 13 year olds. It's just this one book that started them off really oddly.
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jen
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Post by jen on May 4, 2006 7:03:17 GMT -5
I suppose if he was writing in love notes, he's allowed to be a bit more... extravagant. But yeah, the rest of their relationship seems to be quite different to what he shows in the notes.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on May 7, 2006 1:57:32 GMT -5
Maybe when he was writing them, he was thinking that he wouldn't be caught, so he went all out with the writing?
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macca
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Post by macca on May 7, 2006 2:22:43 GMT -5
^ hmmm, maybe, but if he felt so strongly about Kristy, surely he'd have wanted her to discover the truth and return his affections? I dunno.
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Post by ktag on Jun 2, 2006 17:46:39 GMT -5
This was a fun book, with all its silliness. Maybe she eloped with Alan Gray. Of course, she considered it, but then was afraid they would think she was crazy. Which, it turns out she was. But yeah, Bad Luck Mystery all over again. Speaking of... "Remember last Halloween that's technically this Halloween since we're still in 8th grade, but we're going to pretend it isn't and hope the world doesn't implode?" There was also a "paper girl" mention and something else I can't remember.
The "love" thing was definitely too much. Especially for Kristy. They pretty much established that she thought she was "in love" at the end. This from the girl who thinks marriage is a bad idea? Yeah, I don't think so.
Loved Shannon getting hit on the head, and Buddy falling for her because of it. Wonder if Mary Anne told her or if she just decided to cheer for him on her own. Either way, it was cute.
The Krushers practice chapters were kind of odd. They were structured as babysitting chapters, where it's usually about the sitter's experience. But in this book, they kept going from Kristy's POV, to the sitter's, back to Kristy's, etc. and just felt off.
Funny how Kristy thought the letters looked like they were from a girl, when it was Bart. Then when they really were from a girl, she thought it was Bart. And Shannon's line about getting out of the closet. I'm not one who thinks Kristy is a lesbian, but that was kinda funny. How exactly was she planning to humiliate Cokie? Tell everyone she'd been sending her violent love letters?
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Post by baseballchica03 on Aug 29, 2006 2:31:23 GMT -5
I just finished reading this one, and I noticed something odd. Bart says that the lobster costumes he finds belonged to his parents. That means that either,
a) His parents are freakishly small, so that middle schoolers could fit into the costumes; b) His parents randomly had uncoordinating lobster costumes that happened to match when they were both around Kristy and Bart's age; or, c) His parents dated and had matching costumes in middle school, then ended up getting married.
A is probably not likely, and b is very, VERY unlikely, which only leaves c. Are we supposed to believe that Bart's parents were "middle school sweethearts" who got married and started a family together? I mean, I've heard the odd case of people who met in high school going the distance, and of course the college thing happens often. But middle schoolers? Think of it... Your very first boyfriend (or girlfriend) being the only man (or woman) you dated in your entire life? That's just... weird.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 9, 2007 22:31:47 GMT -5
Maybe they were given, or bought, the costumes somewhere, and they kept them thinking their kids might want to use them someday? I never made the connection with that closet line! That's funny. I always figured Kristy's plan was just to circulate the story around school, leading everyone to think Cokie is a sad individual with nothing better to do with her time than to be Kristy's fake admirer. I always thought that was such a throwaway line since we get no further evidence that Shannon is boy-crazy or has had "a million boyfriends" like Kristy says...but then again, we don't hear too much about the students of Stoneybrook Day. Hm, maybe there is some history between Shannon and Bart?
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