wanderingfrog
Sitting For The Arnolds
Official BSC Archivist
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Post by wanderingfrog on Feb 24, 2012 22:36:19 GMT -5
I think I only read this book when it first came out, so I should really reread it. I've only watched the movie once, too (although I have it on both VHS and DVD) but I've read so many discussions of it online that it feels like I've watched it a lot more than I actually have!
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Post by booboobrewer on Feb 25, 2012 1:49:39 GMT -5
Also the book has several pages of color photos/stills from the movie in the middle, which I used to think was pretty cool.
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celaeno
Sitting For The Papadakis's
I have to share a room with Vanessa
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Post by celaeno on Mar 31, 2012 9:58:05 GMT -5
I just read this for the first time, and now I have the urge to see the movie again! I haven't seen the movie since it was out in theaters, but right now the DVD is only $4.99 on Amazon. Tempting.
I'm really glad that they made the book feel like a real BSC book by using the same dimensions and by using the same font and chapter headings in block letters; it definitely wouldn't have felt like a BSC book if they hadn't done that. It was weird having shorter chapters though. I was like "What?!" when I turned the page at one point and saw that the chapter I was reading was only 2 pages long!
I do wish they could have gotten one of the regular ghostwriters to write this instead of someone else. Surely it would have been easy to get one of them? It also felt weird reading a BSC book in third person instead of first person, and in all past tense instead of the occasional present tense that the regular BSC books use. I wish they had written the book in first person - I guess if they had done that, Kristy would have been the best person to use as the narrator. Or better yet, if they had done it Super Special style and had the narration rotate.
I got a chuckle out of Cokie's "There's Mary Anne in a few years" line.
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 31, 2012 11:40:36 GMT -5
Lerangis wrote it. "A.L. Singer" is an anagram of Lerangis.
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celaeno
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Post by celaeno on Mar 31, 2012 16:09:17 GMT -5
^No way! Where did you find that out??? And why on earth would they give him a pseudonym? It's not like they were trying to hide the fact that AMM didn't write it???
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Post by greer on Mar 31, 2012 18:14:10 GMT -5
^No way! Where did you find that out??? And why on earth would they give him a pseudonym? It's not like they were trying to hide the fact that AMM didn't write it??? A.L. Singer is a pseudonym that Lerangis commonly uses when he ghostwrites books. He wrote a bunch of "tie-in" books under A.L. Singer. It's on his wikipedia page, actually.
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