Post by MZ.X on May 24, 2024 21:54:43 GMT -5
That's all I have to say; they don't know the meaning of the word "Haunted" and they don't know what ghosts are either; I think that the biggest tipoff from that is the book entitled: Claudia And The Phantom Phone Calls. What phantom phone calls? There was not a single phantom phone call made from beyond the grave; no ghosts at all, no supernatural activities, no cemetery fallen phoneline and not even a "We've traced the call, it's coming from inside of the house, get out NOWWW!" which adds insult to injury for the reader. It was just one of the male students that they all were familiar with not a phantom; what's a phantom? A GHOST! The least that they could have done was used a boy who used to attend the school but had died some years earlier in the middle of a school year before the babysitters club members attended but now; instead we get a living breathing teen boy.
Meanwhile, I should have ended right there; but no I couldn't let it go and just had to read another book, Stacey And The Mystery Of Stoneybrook: AKA crazy old man tells Stacey from the babysitters club a bunch of entertaining ghost stories and hauntings that supposedly happened in a house/area he was familiar with, but then he admits he was only fooling just before he dies. That's pretty much the whole book. Then you have the whole other problem with the mystery books that really aren't mysteries:
Kristy And The Haunted Mansion Mystery: don't think you'll get a Disneyland/Disney World ride meets the Babysitters Club; the mansion they spend the night in isn't actually haunted, it's just a rundown mansion being looked after by the caretaker. If the caretaker turned out to be a friendly old man ghost; that's another story but he wasn't, he was a person; and the missing person turned up right in Stoneybrook after years of deceit; some mystery! I'm also tired of mysteries that aren't mysteries. Take for instance: Dawn And The Surfer Ghost! What surfer ghost? There was no ghost in the whole book! Dawn has yet to see a real ghost; instead of some guy she just met having long hair one day and short hair the next; and all fingers free in the open air when just a day ago he wouldn't go anywhere without his lucky snake ring/he called it faking his own death; uh, dude, that's not faking your own death; that's getting a haircut and taking off your ring! Meanwhile, the police we're much better and also believed that the male character of the story was dead until the last chapter where he reappears unharmed and wins the surfing tournament; there was no dead body washed up, but the surfer was unrecognizable with short hair? Short hair wouldn't have changed his appearance much to make him look that different right? If his body washed up lifeless, that's a different story, but there wasn't a body present yet everyone including the cops wrote him off for dead; without an investigation! Meanwhile, if the surfer dudes are anything like The Babysitters' Club members he is going to catch all kinds of hell for daring to change his look; they'll force the ring back onto his finger painfully and if he wasn't wearing they're not speaking to him! They're going to shun him!
Meanwhile, I should have ended right there; but no I couldn't let it go and just had to read another book, Stacey And The Mystery Of Stoneybrook: AKA crazy old man tells Stacey from the babysitters club a bunch of entertaining ghost stories and hauntings that supposedly happened in a house/area he was familiar with, but then he admits he was only fooling just before he dies. That's pretty much the whole book. Then you have the whole other problem with the mystery books that really aren't mysteries:
Kristy And The Haunted Mansion Mystery: don't think you'll get a Disneyland/Disney World ride meets the Babysitters Club; the mansion they spend the night in isn't actually haunted, it's just a rundown mansion being looked after by the caretaker. If the caretaker turned out to be a friendly old man ghost; that's another story but he wasn't, he was a person; and the missing person turned up right in Stoneybrook after years of deceit; some mystery! I'm also tired of mysteries that aren't mysteries. Take for instance: Dawn And The Surfer Ghost! What surfer ghost? There was no ghost in the whole book! Dawn has yet to see a real ghost; instead of some guy she just met having long hair one day and short hair the next; and all fingers free in the open air when just a day ago he wouldn't go anywhere without his lucky snake ring/he called it faking his own death; uh, dude, that's not faking your own death; that's getting a haircut and taking off your ring! Meanwhile, the police we're much better and also believed that the male character of the story was dead until the last chapter where he reappears unharmed and wins the surfing tournament; there was no dead body washed up, but the surfer was unrecognizable with short hair? Short hair wouldn't have changed his appearance much to make him look that different right? If his body washed up lifeless, that's a different story, but there wasn't a body present yet everyone including the cops wrote him off for dead; without an investigation! Meanwhile, if the surfer dudes are anything like The Babysitters' Club members he is going to catch all kinds of hell for daring to change his look; they'll force the ring back onto his finger painfully and if he wasn't wearing they're not speaking to him! They're going to shun him!