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Post by lionessblack on Mar 14, 2008 14:51:47 GMT -5
I haven't read #15, and I've only read Aloha Baby-Sitters once, as it was a library find, and that was years ago, so I'm not really counting it either. Same for Sea City Here We Come, but I remember thinking some of the storylines were kind of weird. It wasn't a "regular" vacation SS, the way people sort of trickled in here and there.
Favorites: Summer Vacation. California Girls. Snowbound.
There's kind of a few that are in the middle for me where I love some of the storylines, but hate others, like NY, NY and Shadow Lake. I wish Logan's chapters in BSC Remember would have been something from his childhood in Kentucky, not just about Mary Anne. But I might just be wanting some stories about Lewis.
Least: BSC in the USA. Ridiculous and I wanted to slap Stacey over her stupid fight with Claudia. I guess they were just stir crazy from being the RV, but still...
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 14, 2008 16:14:29 GMT -5
^ I also really like Lewis.;D What was ridiculous about BSC in the USA? The fight was dumb, agree on that. ;D
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Post by lionessblack on Mar 15, 2008 0:27:15 GMT -5
I guess... a lot of the plot felt convoluted to me. And as much as I love Watson and think he's a great character, I get annoyed every time someone else does something and he thinks it's a great idea and just spends a lot of money to do the same thing.
And that really seemed like an instance where you wouldn't want to take 8 girls on your trip with you. Obviously, Jack would want to take Dawn and Jeff, and I could see Mary Anne, even, since she's related to Dawn and Jeff. Even with Watson and Elizabeth going, it's not like they NEEDED all those baby-sitters for the kids or something.
The only thing I really liked in the book was the Stacey/Ethan chapter (I like Ethan a lot), and the chapter with Kristy and Patrick. Everything else was just so eh to me.
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 16, 2008 16:00:02 GMT -5
^ I can understand how you and some people don't get into this book. Different preferences. ;D As for Watson, I think that he is just trying really hard to make Kristy happy and knows that the way to do that is to take the whole club, even if it is weird. The BSC likes to be together and seems to have the most fun that way (didn't this book or another one even say that Watson didn't want to leave any BSC member behind?) so it makes sense to me that Watson (and Jack) would think taking the other girls would be what would make their daughters the happiest.
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Post by inconstant heart on Mar 17, 2008 23:53:37 GMT -5
^ I think Watson says none of the BSC girls can be left behind in 'Baby-sitters on Board.' What books have him going along with someone else's ideas other than that one and 'BSC in the USA'? I like that Watson is occasionally used as a way of allowing all the BSC members to go on holiday together. I don't know about anyone else, but I *hate* the books where some go on holiday and the others stay behind. It always means pointless baby-sitting chapters for the sitters left behind and it doesn't feel as fun. (Just my opinion, of course. ... You know what I just realised? Mal never got to be the main narrator for any super special (I think?). According to the U&Me4BSC site: Kristy: #1, 7, 8, 11. MA:#3 Dawn: #4, 5, 12, 14 Stacey: #2 Claudia: #6 Jessi: #9, 13, 15 SS #10 (Sea City, Here We Come!) apparently had no main narrator, but I haven't read it in ages, so I don't know.) Ann M. hates Mal?
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 18, 2008 1:00:10 GMT -5
Another one for the list!
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Post by Rie on Mar 18, 2008 1:16:19 GMT -5
^Haha! ;D
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Post by inconstant heart on Mar 18, 2008 3:38:06 GMT -5
^^ *lol* Poor Mallory!
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Post by maddieruns on Mar 18, 2008 15:46:30 GMT -5
Ah well, Mal's too busy to be narrator anyways. ;D She spends most of her Super Specials being Harriet the spy.
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 18, 2008 16:52:24 GMT -5
^ That would make for interesting narration, though. ;D Maybe not since she never gets to see anything good.... ;D
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Post by inconstant heart on Mar 19, 2008 2:03:45 GMT -5
I'm surprised Jessi got to narrate so many books. She and Mal don't seem as 'important' in the series as the older girls.
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 19, 2008 16:28:37 GMT -5
^ I always wondered about that, too.
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Post by msstock87 on Mar 21, 2008 16:39:05 GMT -5
I noticed that too that Mallory never got to be the main narrator of any super specials. I think it would have been cool to see a Super special mainly through her eyes.
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Post by aln1982 on Mar 21, 2008 16:47:50 GMT -5
^ I agree. There would have been a lot of observations. ;D I can relate to her spying, though, as I always loved spying as a kid. ;D
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Post by Penny Lane on Mar 21, 2008 16:58:13 GMT -5
^I still like spying on my neighbors. Not in a creepy way, more in a "who are these people, I'm so curious about their quirky habits" I don't walk over and peer in their windows or anything. Nor have I ever actually used my binoculars for anything besides animal observation.
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