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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2007 13:44:31 GMT -5
No mention of this one? I always loved this one, despite it being psychotically far-fetched, plot-wise. Plus, it was rewarding when Dawn finally got over her animal hatred (what's her problem anyway, a hippie vegetarian who hates pets?!?)
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Post by inge on Mar 21, 2007 14:20:44 GMT -5
I agree about the hippy vegetarian that hates pets thing. Dude, wtf. "I'm a vegetarian, but I don't like animals! Not eating meat has nothing to do with animal wellfare whatsoever! I really couldn't care less about that!" That kind of talk actually pissed me off, being a vegetarian for those reasons Dawn almost describes as ridiculous herself. Other than that, I thought the book was... okay... ugly cover art Mal does NOT look pretty. Other than that I was surprised to see the girls actually catching a criminal for the first time in this one, other than it turning out to be a mistake or whatever, things that had happened in the mysteries before this one.
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Post by msstock87 on Mar 21, 2007 21:41:36 GMT -5
I read this one recently, and I agree, that Dawn not liking animals was weird. I have to admit, I figured out what was going to happen before I read it. It was one of those mystery plots.
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Post by hitzpink on Mar 21, 2007 21:51:53 GMT -5
Hmm, I haven't read this one in awhile. I forgot most of the details. But I can picture the cover perfectly, and wow... Mallory. Talk about bushy red hair. ITA about Dawn's disliking animals thing! That was total crap! Inge, she really did make it sound like being vegetarian for animal welfare was ridiculous and stupid.
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Post by mckay on Mar 22, 2007 9:58:45 GMT -5
Mostly I just get annoyed with Dawn having a new personality with each ghostwriter.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2007 9:06:07 GMT -5
This book has Claudia's best spelling mistake ever. A notebook entry reads:
I licked that big brown dog.
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 24, 2007 16:08:50 GMT -5
That is awesome and disgusting! I assume it is "liked" ? Kind of like when a boy when my mom was in elementary school wrote a note to mom's best friend saying "I lick you very much." But he was about 8... Do you think the mistake was supposed to be funny or just a typical "Claudia" error? Do you think the author realized how it reads?
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Post by wanderingfrog on Mar 27, 2007 11:02:23 GMT -5
My ex-boyfriend is a vegetarian who hates animals. Especially dogs. For several years, he was a vegan who hated animals, but he recently reverted to just vegetarianism.
He's a vegetarian for animal welfare reasons, though. He doesn't want animals to suffer... but he also doesn't want to be anywhere near them, either.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2007 17:52:44 GMT -5
I only read two of these books- Stacy and the Missing Ring and Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs. This was my favorite of the two- I liked how the pet shop was described, and how all the animals were found. I know that this plot was totally imaginary- they just "happened" to show up at the park the same day of the softball game? Please. And it did bug me that Dawn was a vegetarian, but she didn't like animals. That always puzzled me. But this one was okay overall.
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Post by mckay on Apr 3, 2007 19:09:42 GMT -5
Yeah, see, I can understand it in an adult, but a thirteen-year-old doesn't seem old enough to have that kind of worldview. Although if this was written when she was a vegetarian for health reasons, that's another story.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2007 23:09:42 GMT -5
This book has Claudia's best spelling mistake ever. A notebook entry reads: I licked that big brown dog. That is great. Right up there with "Who are mom and dad?"
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 11, 2007 23:13:25 GMT -5
That spelling mistake should be in Claudia and the Great Search
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Post by aln1982 on Apr 22, 2007 23:58:11 GMT -5
Just reread and love Dawn's statement on the first page that she respects people who love their animals but doesn't particularly care for them and wants people to respect this feeling. (My thoughts exactly - I don't mind dogs as long as I don't have to hear them, smell them, or be near them. Don't know what I would think of them if I didn't know I was terribly allergic and get sick every time I'm around them but...) Anyway, Dawn also says right after that statement that she is not a vegetarian because she loves animals but because she doesn't like the taste of red meat (doesn't explain why she doesn't like things like chicken but I guess it sort of makes sense to me). Anyway, this is one of my least favorite mysteries because of the dog-related plot. It seemed weird to me at first that someone would steal all of those dogs but at second thought, I understand that they were worth a lot of money. It bugged me a little that the BSC was so involved in "investigating" but I suppose without this there would be no plot. One question I had was is Karl Tate in Baby-Sitters Beware? Doesn't his son (or maybe it's him) come after the BSC or something? I guess I need to reread that one too. Even though this was one of my least favorite mysteries, dog lovers probably feel differently. It wasn't too bad except I couldn't get into the subject.
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Post by msstock87 on Apr 23, 2007 12:10:37 GMT -5
Yes, from what I remember in Babysitters Beware Karl Tate's son comes after the BSC because they put his father in jail or something along those lines.
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Post by fluffycakes on Sept 3, 2007 9:16:37 GMT -5
This book has Claudia's best spelling mistake ever. A notebook entry reads: I licked that big brown dog. I nearly died laughing when I read that notebook entry. She licked a big brown dog? Eww, Claudia! ;D
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