Sweet Valley Twins #13: Stretching The Truth

Aug 03, 2008 17:05

... or, Mary Gets, I Don't Know, Her 3rd or 4th Last Name In a Year.


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party!, mary wallace, sweet valley twins, saint elizabeth of sweet valley, recapper: howvicious

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kakeochi_umai August 3 2008, 22:20:07 UTC
Maybe the "guy" is actually Mary? Like you said, it does look kind of like a girl...

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howvicious August 3 2008, 22:20:44 UTC
I thought Mary was blonde, though?

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kakeochi_umai August 3 2008, 22:22:16 UTC
Good point (I haven't read many of the SVT books.) Who knows, who knows...

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howvicious August 3 2008, 22:32:41 UTC
Ah! Found it. Here's Mary:

http://madteaparty.dreamhosters.com/closet/bookcovers/svt/svt007.jpg

I thought maybe I was going nuts, thinking she was blonde. But, yeah, it's understandable if you didn't read much of SVT.

Mary sucks. I think I feel about Mary the way Jessica does about Enid in SVH.

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kakeochi_umai August 3 2008, 22:35:08 UTC
Tom Houston strikes me as creepy for no apparent reason too, but that's probably because I'm picturing the ghostie thinking of Tom Cruise and changing the last name.

Elizabeth, of course, is arguing that the plot was "completely unbelievable," and actually says, "...It wasn't like real life at all."

Y halo thar, Mallory Pike.

Even His Bastardliness Bruce Patman is taking this class. Just when you think you have someone figured out, he goes and takes a jewelry class.

Remember that part in Legally Blonde where Brooke says "He did leave a Cher tape in the poolhouse once..." I just have this mental picture of, say, Lila, years later, going "He did take a jewelry class that time in middle school..."

Oh, Sweet Valley. Everyone's got a boat.

This should be an icon.

Sidenote: Lila also mentions that Jessica was passing notes with someone named Helen Bradley in math class. Who the eff is this? Does anyone know, or is she one of those people who is mentioned once and never again?She appears in SVH#10 as a cheerleader and possibly as a ( ... )

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howvicious August 3 2008, 22:39:06 UTC
Remember that part in Legally Blonde where Brooke says "He did leave a Cher tape in the poolhouse once..." I just have this mental picture of, say, Lila, years later, going "He did take a jewelry class that time in middle school..."

--->> I wish you could see how hard this made made me laugh. Yes, I remember that part, and yes, that's perfect. Haha!

Also, I need to get on that "Oh, Sweet Valley. Everyone's got a boat" icon, like now.

And, thanks for shedding some light on Helen Bradley. I'm actually in the process of re-reading all SVHs right now, and I'll probably be on #10 pretty soon.

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howvicious August 4 2008, 00:54:52 UTC
I made an icon, but it sucks because I'm not terribly computer-literate and still like to use Microsoft Paint. Someone needs to help me out here.

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llew30 August 3 2008, 23:44:00 UTC
Loved your recap! I think it's His Bastardliness Bruce Patman there on the cover using his thumb to ask Jessica, "Who's leaky old tugboat is THAT?" though the boat on the cover looks nothing like a tugboat to me. But hey, what do I know? I live in Salt Lake City "where everyone owns either a sailboat or a cabin crusier" (we have little use of tugboats here on our landlocked briny lake!) Anyway, I always pictured tugboats with a cute black smokestack and a red hull.

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howvicious August 4 2008, 00:07:11 UTC
Thanks! *whew* I'm glad everyone doesn't hate my first one. I guess it makes more sense for that to be Bruce, although Bruce should be way dreamier. But, once again, since when are the cover illustrations supposed to make more than minimal sense? =) In fact, now that you mention it, I think I thought it was Bruce on the cover when I was a kid and read this for the first time.

And, yeah, that doesn't really look much like a tugboat to me. Of course, I don't think I've ever seen a tugboat in real life. Only cartoon ones with eyes and mouths.

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annakelly August 4 2008, 03:15:56 UTC
"Just when you think you have someone figured out, he goes and takes a jewelry class."

HEE. FTW, dude. That Bruce is one weird mama-jamma.

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howvicious August 4 2008, 03:50:36 UTC
He was totally weird in this book! I mean, there's the jewelry class thing, and then his reaction to the boat was just... so not Bruce. He even said something about the boat being cool because it was "unique" and "not everyone in Sweet Valley has one like it" or something. Since when does Herr Patman care about uniqueness over, you know, expensiveness or prestige or being a female he can manipulate?

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karmyn75 August 4 2008, 05:35:32 UTC
That is one ugly cover. Why were the SWT covers always so awful?

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howvicious August 4 2008, 14:47:36 UTC
You'd think at some point Francine would be like, alright, Cover Illustrator, you suck and you make all the boys look gross, and the girls, too, half the time. You're fired.

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