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Post by zoar3 on Aug 22, 2011 17:16:28 GMT -5
Except there was nothing "special" about them, particularly the first! IMO, anyway. I think, like most of you, by now the writers really didn't care about the characters or us readers, they were just trying to milk a few last bucks out of the BSC. :/
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oldhickory
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Post by oldhickory on Aug 23, 2011 15:00:22 GMT -5
i don't know why, but i have always felt like the series got cancelled, if that makes sense. like they wanted to keep going but someone upstairs decided it had gone downhill enough and it just needed to end. so the weird last books and not-thought-throughness don't surprise me. i have no idea if this is true, but do any of you guys know how it ended?
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 23, 2011 17:34:10 GMT -5
At least BSC got a finale book. I know the LS books were stopped abruptly when BSC ended. My copy of the last book even has the book list printed on the inside covers with "more to come!" listed at the end of it. You'd think if they knew it was going to end, they would have had their own wrap up. Karen finishing second grade, Andrew turning 5, something important. But no, the last book is Karen's little house family going to a Dude Ranch.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Aug 25, 2011 10:09:14 GMT -5
One of my video lectures for school this week dealt with the Etruscans, and it totally reminded me of Kristy asking, "What's an Etrusc?" in this book.
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Post by anzuhana on Jan 3, 2012 16:30:19 GMT -5
When Friends Forever was being written, Ann decided to end the series. That's why the California Diaries, Friends Forever and the Little Sister books can seem like they ended abruptly.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Jan 3, 2012 16:34:16 GMT -5
^ The worst for me is Little Sister. Karen goes to a dude ranch in the last book and there is hardly any talk of the Stoneybrook characters aside from Andrew, Seth and Lisa.
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Post by greer on Jan 4, 2012 5:08:14 GMT -5
Well, I think they originally planned to have FF go on longer, but sales were not what they had hoped. The peak of the series' popularity was the early 90s.
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Post by helsieboo on Feb 3, 2013 12:53:41 GMT -5
I recently re-read this book and it still annoys me.
You can't get the train from Victoria to France. You've never been able to. The old terminus is London Waterloo, which is what it would have been at the time of this book. I know I'm being picky, but if they managed to name the train correctly, why not the station?!
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Feb 5, 2013 15:11:25 GMT -5
^ If you're picky, then so am I. It STILL bothers me that Lerangis thought you could park an RV in the middle of downtown Seattle.
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Post by virgoscorpio on Feb 5, 2013 15:55:08 GMT -5
^ Do you know if the Seattle coffee places that Lerangis mentioned actually exist(ed) or are they fictional?
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Post by helsieboo on Feb 7, 2013 3:52:47 GMT -5
I wonder if it would have been easier to write the books now, what with the power of Google.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Feb 9, 2013 12:00:25 GMT -5
^ Do you know if the Seattle coffee places that Lerangis mentioned actually exist(ed) or are they fictional? I'm fairly certain that they're fictional. If there ARE any with the same names, it's probably accidental.
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Post by helsieboo on Feb 10, 2013 11:20:13 GMT -5
Is it wrong that I actually started to google the coffee shops? I found a Kona Kitchen and a Kona Corner. And a Corner Cafe.
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starrynight
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Post by starrynight on Feb 10, 2013 15:15:14 GMT -5
^ You now know more about the Seattle coffee scene than I do. Back on topic...this book would have been interesting if each of the girls was sent on some sort of study program to a difference country. That would have cost a lot of money for the school to do, but hey, this is the BSC. Entire trips to London (one of the most expensive cities in the world) cost several hundred dollars...including airfare!
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Post by helsieboo on Feb 11, 2013 4:28:32 GMT -5
And they can afford to shop in Harrods!
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