bsclover18
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Post by bsclover18 on Jul 1, 2008 20:30:06 GMT -5
^I agree...I did read Graduation Day and I cried when it was done! No matter how old I get, the BSC will always be there, forever 13 and in 8th grade.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2008 21:32:14 GMT -5
I was going to say this in my introductory post but didn't want it to go on forever: I stopped reading/collecting around #50. for me it was a shock to learn in the later books how the characters devolved into stereotypes of their former selves. it's probably all relative to the reader.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2008 22:14:07 GMT -5
That's about when I stopped reading as well... I bought almost every book as soon as it came out up until #50 or so... then I just kind of lost interest for awhile. I read sporadically from #50 to #70 or so and grabbed #100 when it came out for nostalgia... I couldn't believe it. It was just incredibly surreal-feeling, jumping from #50 to #100 in terms of tone and plot and... yeah, just the overall feeling and stereotyping.
I've heard quite a few people say (and I've said myself, as well) that it almost reads like a really bizarre fanfic.
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Post by Crystal Clair on Aug 7, 2008 22:02:41 GMT -5
I just thought of something interesting about that way of thinking. Recently I had to read Slaughter-house Five and the protagonist, he had the ability to go back in time, as if his life were a series of books and he could reread certain ones over and over.
I like being able to stay during a certain time in BSC world. Dawn's departure and Mary Anne's house burning down are definitely things I dont like in the BSC series and anytime before them is where I rather stay.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Aug 10, 2008 1:14:18 GMT -5
I sometimes think of the BSC as having all of its members together all of the time, that there was no "Dawn" period followed by an "Abby" period, etc. When I read the books and some character wasn't mentioned, I imagined that she was off doing something else. And I agree with you bsclover18, that they will always be in the 8th grade. It's kind of like the "Peter Pan" syndrome. I never want to grow out of the BSC.
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Post by candykane on Aug 18, 2008 16:07:37 GMT -5
I almost don't want to read the later books in the series because of all the things I've heard about the characters becoming parodies of themselves, with their given personality traits exaggerated to the maximum. Also, I really hate the idea of Abby being in the club. I haven't read any of her books, so I just pretend like she doesn't exist. I never liked the idea of a main character and new club member being introduced so late in the series. In my mind, the BSC will always be Kristy, Claudia, Mary Anne, Stacey, Dawn, Mal and Jessi. Abby would just ruin the way I happily pictured the club ever since I was a kid. I stopped reading BSC around the time Dawn went back to California for the first time, so I don't like to think about her going back there permanently, either.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Aug 18, 2008 17:12:03 GMT -5
Plus, I can keep them for my kids, who will be forced to read them. Lol Kylie! ;D
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Post by toshemeup on Aug 19, 2008 5:40:28 GMT -5
I always wonder what the notebook actually looks like. I'm sure it's just a regular spiral bound, but I always get this picture in my head of it looking more like the Book of Shadows from Charmed. Some huge, unwieldy behemoth of a notebook that they all have to lug to some corner of Claudia's room to write in.
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Post by wenonah4th on Aug 19, 2008 6:20:20 GMT -5
The notebook has to run to several "volumes" over time.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Aug 19, 2008 19:05:00 GMT -5
I always wonder what the notebook actually looks like. I'm sure it's just a regular spiral bound, but I always get this picture in my head of it looking more like the Book of Shadows from Charmed. Some huge, unwieldy behemoth of a notebook that they all have to lug to some corner of Claudia's room to write in. For some reason, I always pictured it as one of those composition books, those notebooks where you can't tear out the pages (well you can, but it would look like crap if you did). Idk why I thought this; maybe because when I think of composition books I think of organization and that always brings my mind back to the BSC ;D. Also when I was a little kid, my brain thought that they used the same notebook throughout the whole series. Of course now I came to realize that they probably used several but kept them all.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 19, 2008 20:33:18 GMT -5
I think I went back and forth between picturing it being this big spiral notebook and a binder with lots of looseleaf pages.
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Post by greer on Aug 19, 2008 21:13:23 GMT -5
me too, booboobrewer. i believe it is described as both, as well.
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Amalia
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Post by Amalia on Aug 25, 2008 2:49:56 GMT -5
I just picture the notebook to be a regular sketch book, since the entries didn't seem to be written on lined paper.
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Post by sparklymouse on Aug 25, 2008 15:41:28 GMT -5
I think a binder would be good. Then when they needed a new one they could take the old entries out and rearrange them by client. Something without lines doesn't seem very neat or practical. It'd be hard to read through a bunch of wavy entries. Maybe that's why everyone hated it so much.
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Post by candykane on Aug 25, 2008 17:11:42 GMT -5
^ If the BSC was happening now, I bet they'd blog all their entries instead of handwriting them in a notebook. That would benefit Claudia, too, because she could spell-check her entries, not to mention no one would have to try and decipher her chicken scratches!
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