Friends' Forever Special - Everything Changes

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lovelylemontree said:

That's really all I remember about this book. Is it really so difficult to write out "Abby" instead of calling her "A."?

I know!She stats the first few pages by saying Abby so we know we're reading about her, but it gets so annoying.

Also it annoys me how Kristy leaves out 'I' or 'the'. "Went swimming with A. Nearly drowned but A. saved me." And she only writes like that in her diary.

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Yeah this book sucked. I was somewhat entertained by the Stacey/Claud fight in the later FF books, particularly since I hate CLaudia and thought she had it coming, but this book was just terrible. Kristy's apprevations really annoyed me too.

[lilafowler]

Also it annoys me how Kristy leaves out 'I' or 'the'. "Went swimming with A. Nearly drowned but A. saved me." And she only writes like that in her diary.

Very Bridget Jones.

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IMO, the journal/letter format was one of the biggest faults of the books. (I was afraid for a bit that the entire series would be written the same way!)

For some inane reason, I think that writers of these kinds of books think that girls *want* to read "different" types of "correspondence"...anyone remember the "Girl Talk" series, around late '80s/early '90s? Most of the books were written normally, but there was always a chapter in the middle that was comprised entirely of a telephone conversation. It was written like a script, including the beginning part where one girl wouldl call another's house, get the girl's brother, ask the brother to call the sister to the phone, etc. It was SO annoying, even as a ten-year-old....

[digigirl02]

jenlovesmorelli said:

Oh, right. It's Graduation Day then where you have pages and pages of handwriting (everyone's! Including Jessi's and Claudia's. Ugh).

I know it's such a pain to read, and even young Jackie can spell better then Claudia.

[wanderingfrog]

dibblycool said:

For some inane reason, I think that writers of these kinds of books think that girls *want* to read "different" types of "correspondence"...anyone remember the "Girl Talk" series, around late '80s/early '90s? Most of the books were written normally, but there was always a chapter in the middle that was comprised entirely of a telephone conversation. It was written like a script, including the beginning part where one girl wouldl call another's house, get the girl's brother, ask the brother to call the sister to the phone, etc. It was SO annoying, even as a ten-year-old....

I didn't remember that about the Girl Talk books. I like that sort of thing, though -- different fonts and formats, and the occasional drawing or diagram in otherwise regular prose. Within limits, that is. Kristy's annoying abbreviations in Everything Changes and trying to read any of Jessi's handwriting, anywhere, ever, do not fall within those limits for me.

[sotypical42483]

I like when they change things up too, but Kristy's entries were just unbearable.

[lilafowler]

I decided to start my copy of this today, and I'm not really liking it. I was prepared for Kristy's Bridget Jones-like speech, but I think Claudia's errors in mechanics are even more glaring when they're not in her handwriting, for some reason.

What is Ann's DEAL with inserting people from her real life into BSC books and making them complete Mary Sues? I noticed the dedication to her newborn goddaughter Harmoni, and once I read Kristy's observation that Harmoni and Marcia didn't seem to be the best of friends, I immediately figured out that Marcia would be the bad one. And I'm not all that observant, so you know it was obvious. Plus, Mary Anne writes that she likes Harmoni's personality and that she sounds like Kristy, when we haven't even heard anything that would really tell us enough about Harmoni's personality to surmise that she is like Kristy. Which I guess makes sense since the real Harmoni probably didn't have much of a personality yet if she was a newborn when the book went to press. I like how Ann tried to hint at Marcia being, like, high maintenance with her lipstick and tweezers at camp, when it's her own goddaughter with the stripper name!

[supernatural babe]

tiffanykilbourne said:

Yeah this book sucked. I was somewhat entertained by the Stacey/Claud fight in the later FF books, particularly since I hate CLaudia and thought she had it coming, but this book was just terrible. Kristy's apprevations really annoyed me too.

^^I hate when mates fall out over blokes!! And this same dude phones up claudia a few books later...I'd have punched him in the face.

[msstock87]

I don't mind The FF series, however I could never get into them as much as the regular series. It just wasn't the same series I grew up with. Part of me wishes the FF series was never written. Thats just my opinion though/

[maddieruns]

Maybe it’s just because I'm reading this book right after “Summer Vacation”, but I was a little surprised that Claudia didn’t want to return to Camp Mohawk, with Kristy & Abby, to see Will Yamakawa…. But then again, she’s fallen in luv with so many vacation boyfriends, she’s probably forgotten some of them. ;D

It was sweet when Mary Anne’s Grandmother comes to visit. That part was touching… do Mary Anne and Logan officially break up later in the Friends Forever series?? They kind of left this part hanging at the end of the book…

[sotypical42483]

IIRC, they don't break up until Graduation Day, and even then, it's SUPER glossed over. They say that they had some big talk, but we don't actually get to see the talk, which sucks.

[aln1982]

It sounds like this book has some good stuff in it but I don't think I'd be able to stand to read it - too sad for me to think about the club ending. I don't deal well with change so just the title... I prefer to think of the BSC as a group that never ages and stays together through 10 thousand years of 8th grade, 10 thousand Christmases, etc ;D

[msstock87]

The club ending or scaling down as they called it was very sad for me. Part of me felt like my a piece of my childhood was sorta over, as weird as that is.

[greer]

MA and logan break up in book 3, mary anne's big breakup. Most of her story arc in ff is about her really growing up and becoming independent.

I remember girltalk and that lame "telephone talk"... That crazy wild nyc randy always saying "yo."

I like ff. less baby-sitting.