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Post by shannon86 on Jun 7, 2011 17:53:23 GMT -5
P.S.: I hope is OK for me start a new threat for The Baby-Sitters Club Book Club section! The Boards is quite dead so I wanted to make it live again by starting this new threat!
Let's talk about The Baby-Sitters Club #8 Boy-Crazy Stacey. What are your thoughts about this book? What is/are your favorite and least favorite scenes? Or just say whatever you want about it.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 7, 2011 19:49:51 GMT -5
 I'm glad you got this started again, Shannon. This is one of my very favorite BSC books. I loved the whole introduction to Sea City. The descriptions of the ocean and boardwalk have always made me want to go there for vacation. I also liked that unlike future Super Specials in this only Mary Anne and Stacey were there. I think having some SS's with all (or more of the members) would have been fine but I still would have preferred a few that had only 2 or3 along with others that were strictly family. One of my very favorite scenes was Byron and Stacey's walk along the bay side of the town. All the characters came across as refreshing and fun to read about. My "dislikes" were Scott leading Stacey on, the Pike parents oblivion to Stacey not doing her share, and that there were no Pike family time (Dee and John were rarely with their kids). |
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Post by u4me on Jun 7, 2011 20:13:00 GMT -5
I hated how Mr. and Mrs. Pike never spent time with their kids. They didnt even go to the beach with them. I also didn't like how MA and Stacey had to get the kids ready in the morning. I get that their mother's helpers, but Mr. and Mrs. Pike couldn't do anything to help their kids while on vacation? At least Mr. Pike cooked breakfast!
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Post by sarish on Jun 8, 2011 8:37:02 GMT -5
Like zoar, I absolutely loved the descriptions of Sea City. I wanted to go there so bad! The other thing I did like about this one that changed with the next Sea City trip was that Stacey and Mary Anne were allowed the same night off. In the next they had to take them separate ... I guess the Pikes really needed that vacation!
I love that we got to see Mal more in the awkward stage of being the babysitter and the babysittee in this book. Poor girl! You could tell she wanted to go and play and have fun, but then be like the older girls too at the same time. I felt so bad for Stacey with the stupid lifeguard leading her on, but equally bad for Mary Anne who had to be responsible for eight kids by herself.
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Post by polaris on Jun 8, 2011 15:05:06 GMT -5
This was one of my faves first time round. I liked the Sea city descrptions as well.
I also liked that it was just Mary Anne and Stacey and that it was those two that got picked rather than a set of best friends. This was early enough in the series so the rest of the BSC had a normal reaction to the trip such as "I'm so jealous, you're so lucky to go to Sea City", rather than later books where their reactions were more like "OMG we're going to be separated for 2 whole weeks, write to me every day!" I think there was still a bit of that but not as bad as later books.
I think my favourite part was when they went to the miniature golf course and the younger kids were so bad they had to let people play through before they decided to split into groups and then Claire or Margo won free passes at the end.
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Post by zoar3 on Jun 8, 2011 19:39:27 GMT -5
Polaris said I liked that, too. I also loved that only Mary Anne and Stacey went to Sea City as opposed to the entire BSC. As I said in the "Shadow Lake" thread, I wish more "away" super specials (you guys know I really wish there had been more "Stoneybrook" ones) had featured one or two sitters or dare I say just a BSC Member with her family. As a kid I loved mini golf so that was fun to read about. |
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Post by shannon86 on Jun 14, 2011 22:54:48 GMT -5
I just love this whole book a lot! Like everyone else, I like that it was just Mary Anne and Stacey who went Sea City instead of all of them. I just love Sea City.
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Post by baobhansidhe on Dec 11, 2011 15:38:04 GMT -5
You know, it's funny, but the thing that has always stood out the most for me from this book -- both as a child and now as an adult -- is that friggin' orange sauce on the hamburgers at Burger Garden.
But yeah, this book was my favorite as a child. Orange sauce, Sea City, Mary Anne's sunburn, the abandoned chocolate box... and wasn't there some kind of giveaway tree at the hamburger place? Nicky won a free hamburger off of it, or something.
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Post by wiggir13 on Dec 11, 2011 16:59:11 GMT -5
I really wanted to go to gurber garden and have people in animal costumes wait on me!
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Post by virgoscorpio on Dec 11, 2011 21:59:26 GMT -5
I like both of the Sea City books from the regular series, and I also enjoy how there is one book from each girl's perspective (Stacey and Mary Anne). Something that did sound good was the cold pop (soda) that Stacey brings Scott. I remember the scene in which he takes the can, opens it, and him and his lifeguard friend finish it in two gulps. I always imagine how hot it must be in the Sea City summer sun and how refreshing a cold pop must be. I imagine it being Coke |
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I'm glad you got this started again, Shannon. This is one of my very favorite BSC books. I loved the whole introduction to Sea City. The descriptions of the ocean and boardwalk have always made me want to go there for vacation. I also liked that unlike future Super Specials in this only Mary Anne and Stacey were there. I think having some SS's with all (or more of the members) would have been fine but I still would have preferred a few that had only 2 or3 along with others that were strictly family. One of my very favorite scenes was Byron and Stacey's walk along the bay side of the town. All the characters came across as refreshing and fun to read about. My "dislikes" were Scott leading Stacey on, the Pike parents oblivion to Stacey not doing her share, and that there were no Pike family time (Dee and John were rarely with their kids). 
