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Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 16, 2007 15:20:55 GMT -5
Does anyone actually LIKE the mysteries? I find most of them (granted, I've only read about half) to be SO DULL. Maybe it's cause I'm just not into mysteries in general, I don't know. It really boggles me that they are a zillion mysteries and only half that many super specials! Super specials are the best!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2007 16:17:58 GMT -5
I think I only read maybe 10 of them. I've never really been a big mystery reader, so that might have something to do with it. but yeah, I thought they were really boring.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 16, 2007 17:38:13 GMT -5
I haven't read all of them, but in general I think they're alright. I know I'm definitely in the minority! Not many people seem to like the mysteries. (The Super Mysteries are way better, though). I think basically they don't have much of the "fun" feel to them like the regular series books since Ellen Miles wrote practically all of them, and her dialogue is not that great. But I do rank some of the mysteries among my favorites and some actually can be enjoyable.
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Post by lilafowler on Jan 16, 2007 20:30:49 GMT -5
I'm working on completing my collection, and while I want to get all the Super Specials and Super Mysteries, I really don't care about getting all the regular mysteries. I have some from when I was little that I've never read!
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Post by ktag on Jan 16, 2007 21:53:29 GMT -5
I don't remember reading many of the mysteries. I'm curious, but not curious enough to buy them. I really like the Super Mysteries though.
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Post by jen on Jan 17, 2007 4:25:11 GMT -5
It depends on the mystery. There are some that are truly, truly awful, but there are also some that I really enjoy and reread a lot.
Favourites: Mary Anne and the Library Mystery Claudia and the Recipe for Danger Stacey and the Empty House Jessi and the Jewel Thieves Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph The Mystery at Claudia's House all of Abby's mysteries
Ones I hated: Mary Anne and the Haunted Bookstore Claudia and the Lighthouse Ghost Claudia and the Mystery in the Painting Kristy and the Mystery Train
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Post by hurricanebill on Jan 17, 2007 4:29:06 GMT -5
I always liked Dawn and the Surfer Cat, Mallory and the Ghost Cat, Dawn and the Halloween Mystery (is that the title...too lazy to look) I've only read the first three Super Mysteries but they were cool.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 17, 2007 11:50:36 GMT -5
I haven't read any Super Mysteries, I never see those around! Even though I don't like mysteries, I still need them all! Just to complete my collection, they aren't really books I'd re-read a lot.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 17, 2007 17:53:39 GMT -5
It depends on the mystery. There are some that are truly, truly awful, but there are also some that I really enjoy and reread a lot. Favourites: Mary Anne and the Library Mystery Claudia and the Recipe for Danger Stacey and the Empty House Jessi and the Jewel Thieves Stacey and the Mystery at the Mall Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph The Mystery at Claudia's House all of Abby's mysteries Ones I hated: Mary Anne and the Haunted Bookstore Claudia and the Lighthouse Ghost Claudia and the Mystery in the Painting Kristy and the Mystery Train Favorites: Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic Mystery at the Mall Clue in the Photograph Dawn and the Halloween Mystery Mystery of the Empty House Recipe for Danger Stacey and the Haunted Masquerade Hate: Claudia and the Mystery at the Museum Dawn Schafer, Undercover Babysitter Kristy and the Missing Fortune Lighthouse Ghost Mystery Train
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Post by hitzpink on Jan 17, 2007 19:56:18 GMT -5
I liked Mallory and the Ghost Cat, and Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic because the MA plot actually had a point to it, and Mallory's focused more on Uncle Joe than the stupid cat mystery. But in general, I think the mysteries are sooo boring. I also hate most of the 'mysterious' regular books, like Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook and Mary Anne's Bad Luck Mystery.
I totally agree there should have been more Super Specials and less Mysteries! I don't know how the Mysteries were so popular. I remember reading somewhere that the regular mystery books were super popular and that's why they decided to make the Mysteries their own little spin-off.
Oh wait, I did really like The Mystery at Claudia's House because, again, it wasn't one that dealt with ghosts or had the girls solving a crime or some crap like that.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Jan 18, 2007 11:37:50 GMT -5
^I also hated the regular series books that dealt with mysterious junk. Such wastes! Even Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls and The Ghost at Dawn's House were bores to me.
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Post by booboobrewer on Jan 18, 2007 17:25:48 GMT -5
Aww...those are two of my favorites
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Post by alula on Jan 21, 2007 2:55:08 GMT -5
In a way, I'd rather have the mysteries shunted off into their own series then popping up in the "regular" numbers, but in general, I'm not a big fan. (I do read some mysteries, but I have sort of eclectic tastes, and many of my favorites are things like the Josephine Tey novels, many of which arguably straddle the line between "mystery" and "novel proper." And the only real series I read I read more for the characters than the actual "mystery" parts).
In the BSC-verse, I tend to prefer the more light-hearted mysteries, if that characterization makes sense, although there are some exceptions (I mean, I like Mary Anne and the Library Mystery, and book-banning/burning isn't exactly jolly giggles--nor is discovering relatives you know nothing about, for that matter, and Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic is probably one of my favorite BSC books in all). I think it intereferes with my sense of insular happy Stoneybrook when the mysteries get too "serious"--I was always creeped out by Kristy and the Missing Child, for instance. I much prefer that the "mystery" be limited to sabatoging cooking contests or Cary Retlin Artful-Dodgering Kristy's wristwatch or the soap-operatic hijinx of Dawn Schafer, Undercover Baby-sitter!. (I know booboobrewer hates it, and I agree there's a level on which it's awful, but to me, that one surpasses the level of bad-awful to kind of awesome-awful. It's so ridiculous it has a kind of glory, y'know? But maybe it's because I read it the same weekend as Abby and the Secret Society. Which I will not mention again, promise.)
Oh, and on a consistency level I'm bugged by the fact that there are at least a couple where the "solution" hinges partially on a totally inexplicable supernatural element.
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Post by wanderingfrog on Jan 21, 2007 17:10:47 GMT -5
I always liked Dawn and the Surfer Cat Man, I wish that were really the title of a book.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2007 17:54:52 GMT -5
Someof the mysterys were okay. I liked the first five of them, then they seemed as if they went down hill. Why did Mallory and Jessi get one book each?
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