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Post by candykane on Feb 3, 2008 18:37:54 GMT -5
I hated Dawn, Jeff, and MA in this book. I wanted to smack all three of them. So bratty and they ruined what could have been a really good vacation.
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Post by Penny Lane on Feb 3, 2008 18:42:19 GMT -5
I actually think some of the blame should be put on the adults. If they wanted to actually spend time together and get to know each other and how they function as a family, traveling right away isn't really a great idea. They should have started a lot smaller, taking day trips, and working on getting along with each other in an environment that they all knew, sort of. I also think Sharon should have taken time off to spend with Jeff, not Richard. He barely knew the guy! He flew across the country to see his mom and his sister, not the guy who married his mom.
The whole situation just seemed a little off to me, and Sharon and Richard also shouldn't have let everyone split up like that in Boston.
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Post by luckymojo on Feb 3, 2008 18:50:24 GMT -5
I totally agree.THEY are the parents and they should of put down some discipline on them.They should spend time together in small trips and stuff.Please dont put all blame the kids.Thats how 13 year old girls and a 10 year old boy usually act like,bratty and miserable.Plus the trip wasnt a really good idea.It would be better if they had a family meeting and discuss the issues of the family and how to resolve it instead of letting the kids be brats and ruining the vacation!
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Post by candykane on Feb 3, 2008 18:58:40 GMT -5
This book came at a time when I was starting to lose interest in the series. So I guess that's why I don't like it that much. For me, the series really started to decline around book #60 or so. I stopped buying the books with #68, and then I bought Stacey's Portrait and Stacey vs. the BSC when they came out. After that, I didn't buy any more of them. I started to read the ones I hadn't read before about a year ago to try and catch up (I started to feel nostalgic and wanted to be able to say I'd read the WHOLE series), but I've still got a ways to go on that. And I have to respectfully disagree with the statement that 13-year-old girls and 10-year-old boys usually act bratty and miserable. Sure, a teenage girl is going to have mood swings, and 10-year-olds can be bratty, and I know there were a lot of other issues there with the new family trying to get along and all that, but I felt that they were taking it too far.
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Post by luckymojo on Feb 3, 2008 19:03:37 GMT -5
All of them was at fault,including parents.This book doesnt sound like a good book,i must say.
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 3, 2008 20:21:01 GMT -5
And I have to respectfully disagree with the statement that 13-year-old girls and 10-year-old boys usually act bratty and miserable. Sure, a teenage girl is going to have mood swings, and 10-year-olds can be bratty, and I know there were a lot of other issues there with the new family trying to get along and all that, but I felt that they were taking it too far. I agree. Some kids just don't know how to act. ;D Penny lane, from what I remember, Sharon couldn't take off for some reason but I might be wrong. I'll have to check.
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Post by Rie on Feb 4, 2008 2:26:48 GMT -5
And I have to respectfully disagree with the statement that 13-year-old girls and 10-year-old boys usually act bratty and miserable. Sure, a teenage girl is going to have mood swings, and 10-year-olds can be bratty, and I know there were a lot of other issues there with the new family trying to get along and all that, but I felt that they were taking it too far. I agree. offtopic:I love your current sig aln!
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 4, 2008 10:16:51 GMT -5
^ Thanks. ;D I'm ready for a shopping trip, I think, in this yucky weather. ;D I checked and Richard took off work because Sharon couldn't, to answer penny lane's earlier question about that.
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Post by featherearrings on Apr 27, 2009 13:56:24 GMT -5
I haven't read this book in ages, but weren't they deciding on Boston or Washington, D.C. as a family trip? I remember crossing my fingers that they go to Boston since I live near there lol. I was so excited when they did! ;D The Boston trip was pretty much the only thing I liked about this book.
I didn't mind the Barretts so much before the DeWitts got involved. After that, every single Barrett-DeWitt subplot bored me to tears. It was basically the same subplot recycled several times. Yawn.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jun 25, 2009 18:17:15 GMT -5
Dawn looks really, really, really drab on the cover. Like she was in the farm doing her chores and she was magically transformed to the hallway of a middle-school. Her hand, once propped up against a ball of hay, is now propped up against a locker.
Mary Anne is surprised to see her. "Farm girl!" she exclaims, while looking really cute.
There was a discussion about Mary Anne's haircut in Mary Anne's Makeover - especially the cover - and I think that her hair looks MUCH better on this cover. Looks like a fashion-forward-type style, and her outfit is really cute and trendy.
Stacey... looks good but THAT outfit to SCHOOL? She looks like she is going to a her lesson at an all-girls church choir or something. Or it looks like she put on her Mom's outfit.
Kristy... looks like Kristy! But would Kristy really wear a bright yellow sweater covered in pink flowers at the bottom?
Claudia ... she basically wears cowboy boots in ever single cover, it seems. And she likes leggings with shirts with rainbow paint throw up all over it. Basically, she looks trendy (haha).
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jun 25, 2009 18:19:14 GMT -5
Also, it looks as if Mary Anne has a picture of a boy in her locker. Could that be the Cam photo that they always talk about being in her locker in the first couple of books (or whenever they mention Logan?)
Or is it Logan?
If Cam, good consistency with cover-to-content in the books!
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Post by booboobrewer on Jun 25, 2009 20:16:44 GMT -5
Do you mean the cover of Dawn's Big Move?
I always thought it was a pic of Logan in her locker. It's in a frame, and she put up the pic of Cam with bits of gum.
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Post by Penny Lane on Jun 26, 2009 3:04:49 GMT -5
I thought the cover of this book was the family sitting on the couch looking all angry.
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Post by starrynight on Jun 26, 2009 11:03:07 GMT -5
^ It is.
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Post by sugarandspicexx on Sept 1, 2009 4:39:36 GMT -5
I thought apart from it being ridiculous that Mrs Barrett & Franklin needed Mallory to help take care of the 7 children when they really could have done it themselves, I found it a bit weird to have an 'outsider' along at an outing that was mostly for everyone to get to know each other and it seemed something that should have been more of a private and personal time given the situation, in my opinion.
Jeff was a horrible brat, definately. But I was actually far more annoyed by Mary Anne earlier than Jeff. Mary Anne seemed to turn nasty before Jeff had really done or said anything that bad from what we had been shown.
I also cannot believe Richard & Sharon let her stay in their room, I would assume that Richard allowed it and Sharon may not have been pleased though. Dawn started to annoy me a bit too. Her and Mary Anne when they get upset become my least favourite sitters pretty quickly they're just soo b*tchy! But at least she realized to stop sticking up for Jeff simply because he's her brother and actually have a look at why other people are having a dig.
I felt a little sorry for Richard in this one. He genuinely did want to give it a go with Jeff, even if he didn't have a clue. Although I felt he was a little too defensive of Mary Anne and a little too quick to snap at Jeff and Dawn, though I would have been a bit harsher on Jeff had it have been me.
I found the trip to Boston interesting. I've never known much about the place to be honest and didn't realize there are a few things that would be worth seeing. I would have thought though they wouldn't have allowed them to take "seperate" vacations given that it was such a short trip for Jeff in general that they would force them to make up sooner.
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