starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Nov 15, 2007 18:47:35 GMT -5
Interesting that "The Pigman" was on there. That was actually required reading in some English classes at my school
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mckay
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Post by mckay on Nov 15, 2007 19:28:23 GMT -5
How did Where's Waldo? make it on the list? That's absurd. There's a topless mermaid in one of the crowded beach scenes. I forget which book. I wonder if it's been edited out in recent editions...I hope not. I don't think a kid would even notice it - they're looking for Waldo after all!
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 16, 2007 0:58:07 GMT -5
^ Unless it's some perverted little kid looking for that kind of thing. ;D (I knew a kid who would do things like that.) Not sure why they had to make the mermaid topless but..... As for this book, I always am confused about how Nicky got the matches. Did Sean deliberately set him up? If so, that seems even more disturbed.
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blossom114
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Post by blossom114 on Nov 16, 2007 12:38:54 GMT -5
The pigman... yeah... we had to read that in eighth grade. Dont ask me wehat it was about though, it was ten years since I read it... now a day no pigs would die *shudder* i refuse to ever pick that book up again.... the saddest book I've ever read. PERIOD
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Post by booboobrewer on Nov 16, 2007 14:43:10 GMT -5
Not sure why they had to make the mermaid topless but..... Because...she's a mermaid? ;D
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mckay
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Post by mckay on Nov 16, 2007 15:52:33 GMT -5
^ Unless it's some perverted little kid looking for that kind of thing. ;D (I knew a kid who would do things like that.) Not sure why they had to make the mermaid topless but..... As for this book, I always am confused about how Nicky got the matches. Did Sean deliberately set him up? If so, that seems even more disturbed. They said Sean panicked and shoved the matches in the nearest place he could find, and didn't know the jacket was Nicky's. I think he apologized. I can totally see Adam and Jordan Pike looking for the topless mermaid ;D
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Post by aln1982 on Nov 16, 2007 16:59:11 GMT -5
I guess I was thinking of the "Little Mermaid" wearing a bikini top. ;D Can totally see the Pikes looking for her. ;D Glad that Sean didn't deliberately set Nicky up. That makes it a little better but the kid still has some severe problems....
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inconstant heart
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Post by inconstant heart on Feb 9, 2008 9:01:01 GMT -5
Thread resurrection! (Sorry!)
I liked this book, even though I think the whole book banning plot is better in 'Kristy Power!' Still, it's definitely one I'd read again.
Some random thoughts:
-Theodore the Fourth apparently lives in a ritzy part of town, one even ritzier than Kristy's! He has a 'long, long hedge' and a 'long, long driveway' leading to his huge mansion. How many millionaires/billionaires does Stoneybrook have?!?
-Continuity! One of the protesters outside the library is Bertha Dow, who later makes an appearance in 'Kristy Power!' to protest some more. I nearly had a heart attack when I recognised her name.
-MA mentions she has a dream where the library is on fire and different book characters are trying to get out. She sees Ramona Quimby on the lawn in her pyjamas and I got a chill, because it reminded me of #131. Ooh.
-MA nearly cries as the kids are accepting their certificates at the end of the Readathon. *lol*
-Nicky beats Rosie! Yay! I like Rosie, but it's nice the one most likely to win didn't.
Surprisingly, I liked MA a lot in this book. I found it very sweet that she includes Mal in the people she misses, even though she can still see Mal occasionally.
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Post by greer on Feb 9, 2008 9:11:39 GMT -5
thread resurrection is always good Stoneybrook is located in one of the richest counties in the US. I wrote a blog post about it in august:
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inconstant heart
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Post by inconstant heart on Feb 9, 2008 9:27:41 GMT -5
Ooh, that's really interesting. Thanks for that! Those girls really did have it all...
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Post by alula on Feb 10, 2008 3:47:27 GMT -5
thread resurrection is always good Stoneybrook is located in one of the richest counties in the US. I wrote a blog post about it in august: I grew up in a very similar county"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPage_County,_Illinois"]very similar county and there was a lot about the BSC books that made me think about Stoneybrook as being a very similar place. (And for the record, neither my brother nor I received cars for our sixteenth birthdays, and actually, neither of us has actually owned a new car, although my brother probably would if he didn't live in New York.)
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Mar 20, 2009 20:35:54 GMT -5
Yeah, on the cover of the book it looks like a ghost! When I first took a look at Mary Anne and the Library mystery, I assumed it was a ghost.
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wanderingfrog
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Post by wanderingfrog on Mar 14, 2010 18:16:48 GMT -5
I liked the bit of continuity with Bertha Dow, but I also noticed an inconsistency:
Um, the subplot of Claudia and the Sad Good-bye was that the Addisons ignored their kids. Did the club members forget about that?
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Post by Kylie90210 on Mar 22, 2010 21:52:55 GMT -5
It's not surprising. I found it a little odd that MA was so surprised Nicky won, I mean, that we were all surprised... If he really was out reading Rosie, wouldn't there have been made mention of it?
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Post by zoar3 on Jul 14, 2010 16:16:06 GMT -5
This book was one of the better mysteries. One thing I thought of a little while ago was this: if Sean Addison came to the Library with Corrie and/or their parents, wouldn't any of them notice he was missing at the time each fire started? Unless he truly planned to the extreme in terms of timing to make it back into the main room where everyone else was.
Also, I wonder what Sean's original intent was? I mean did he think "I'll start a fire, it'll scare away all the kids, the Library Staff will be worried for everyone's safety, thus, cancelling the Readathon?"The last fire, that Kristy stopped (not MA, which always bugged me that MA got credit for it and even that Sean was mad at her) he used lighter fluid didn't he? I don't know much about that stuff but isn't that explosive? Scary!
ITA with others who have said it was nice, refreshing that MA included Mallory as someone she missed. I liked that Nicky won but poor Charlotte, for the sake of being a peer of Rosie, is back to being in 3rd Grade! At least this book did not say she had skipped a grade so lol if we did not know otherwise, it was normal for her to be 8 and in 3rd grade.
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