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Post by funkymonkey on Aug 21, 2010 22:52:02 GMT -5
I would vote neither. These two series had a different vibe from the books I grew to know and love. You know what I mean? Not to say I hated CD and FF but it is really hard for me to choose.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2010 14:33:37 GMT -5
Friends Forever was really neat. It went back and answered your questions about the series. Also, I think the girls "worked through" some stuff, if I am remembering correctly. I don't think I would like C. D. I skimmed through one and it looked like there was no dialouge! Ugh! How boring!
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 26, 2010 15:23:27 GMT -5
^There is, and when there's pages of it, it's pretty unrealistic considering they're journals...who is able to remember and write down long word for word conversations? lol
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Post by Honeybee on Nov 28, 2010 12:31:54 GMT -5
Neither. I haven't read any of those books. So, I wouldn't know which one to choose from.
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Post by greer on Dec 15, 2010 6:39:57 GMT -5
I like Friends Forever a lot, which isn't a popular opinion among the fandom, I don't think--but California Diaries can really stand on its own. FF would be boring if we hadn't already loved these girls for over ten years before it came out.
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Post by dawnnjackiefan on Dec 26, 2010 22:27:09 GMT -5
Gotta be the diaries. I liked the whole Dawn, Sunny, Maggie, et al grow up feel. The Friends Forever series to me jumped the shark, since half the charactors were cut back. It was a sad way to end the series.
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Post by wiggir13 on Apr 10, 2011 15:42:31 GMT -5
I would have really been interested to see the FF series take on some more adult situations like the CD did. I mean the FF series was such a let down for me. I thought we might get to see the girls turn into almost high school girls and actually go through puberty or something, anything that what it was!
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Post by anzuhana on Sept 21, 2011 11:04:46 GMT -5
For some reason, I can't decide. Maybe California Diaries because you get the new POV's with the characters in the series.
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Post by peppermintraymaker on Sept 21, 2011 11:34:28 GMT -5
I'd choose Friends Forever between the two, but I like California Diaries as well.
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Post by anzuhana on Sept 21, 2011 14:46:05 GMT -5
^ Any reason why you'd choose Friends Forever?
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Post by u4me on Sept 21, 2011 17:33:22 GMT -5
I like the content of the CD better, but I didn't like that it was all hand-written because it was sometimes difficult to read. Friends Forever wasn't bad, but I wish it would have taken place in high school, not middle school.
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Post by peppermintraymaker on Sept 21, 2011 22:08:06 GMT -5
Anzuhana, I'd choose Friends Forever simply because I always enjoyed reading about the Stoneybrook girls more than the California girls. Ideally, I would love to have read a series that blended Friends Forever and California Diaries: the main Stoneybrook girls facing more grown-up issues. Had I not lost interest in BSC by the time Friends Forever came out, I know I would have been interested in reading the series, while California Diaries didn't interest me when it came out. I do like both, though, so it is kind of a tough choice.
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Post by shannon86 on Sept 22, 2011 11:19:19 GMT -5
I'd go with California Diaries, even though I only read 3 books from the series I love it a lot.
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Post by anzuhana on Apr 1, 2012 17:39:08 GMT -5
I picked Friends Forever, because of Graduation Day and because in Welcome Home, Mary Anne, Sunny came to Connecticut.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Apr 2, 2012 13:44:44 GMT -5
I always felt that Friends Forever was created partially because editors realized that kids of the "new millennium" didn't care as much about babysitting plots. So they cut out most of the babysitting (and the younger members) and focused on the original 4, most popular girls. The one thing that I dislike about FF is actually the first book and the last book. Everything Changes and Graduation Day. I'm not a huge fan of the style in which they were written -- sometimes choppy. And I cringe at the cover of Everything Changes. Look at Mary Anne's snaggle tooth and missing tooth! Doesn't Logan always talk about how she has such a gorgeous smile -- and yet the other 3 girls get nice teeth.
I just re-read Dawn, Diary 1. Funny enough, I have my original copies of Dawn, Sunny & Maggie's first diaries. I don't think I connected with them as much as a kid. Which is funny because when they came out I was the perfect/target age for them. But I am enjoying them this time around. Probably because they're BSC-related-content that I don't remember as much.
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