Wow... that book is cracktastic. And what's wrong with whole grains, Steven? You suck. :p
Bruce is also not amused as nobody's buying his T-shirts - at $10 each I'm not surprised.
God, when Bruce grows up he's going to piss away the Patman fortune on really crappy marketing ideas, isn't he? And then he'll have to move in with cousinbrother Roger. Oooh, I hope we see that in SV Confidential/Heights!
Reading about the garbage truck gave me flashbacks- in one apartment I lived in, for two years, the garbage man insisted on picking up the dumpster right outside my bedroom window at 2 AM! And the town wasn't that big, so it's not like they had to work 24 hours to pick up all the trash...
I just re-read both of those! (Long story short- I pulled the muscles in my chest, and recovery involved me lying on the couch for most of the day for a couple weeks, which sucked big time.)
My favorite King book has always been Dolores Claiborne, with Everything's Eventual being a close second. Did you read Duma Key?
I read Duma Key! It scared the bejeesus out of me. Loved how one of the short stories in Everythings Eventual crossed over with a character in Dark Tower. So did the Stand actually. Hah! The Stand ruled, I love Stu.
So much to love about this recap! I'm glad to see that even Mother Nature kisses Wakefield ass.
I too was disappointed (but not surprised) with the way they handled Steven being a vegetarian. I made the same decision when I was 9 and it was hard until I was about 15 because I was alone in my beliefs...so I give Steven some credit.
I just thought it was badly written and the moral was supposed to be I think that no matter what you believe, don't force everyone else to believe it, but to me it just ended really badly with Steven giving in, not because of lack of support or anything, but because he doesn't like his new diet. Yeah. Thanks for that, ghostwriter.
Man, the one time 'Ol Ned goes and does something supportive (not to mention tasty, that squash dinner sounds good and I'm not even a vegetarian), and Steven has to shit all over it. Sucks that the ghostwriter isn't nearly as open-minded as the Wakefields she wrote about were. Er--or something. That just got a little meta on me.
Anyways, this must be my week, because I adored both this book and Yours For A Day when I was a kid, and both appeared this week.
Also, I should point out that I learned what a vegan was because of this book. And I was actually one of the few people in my grade (6th at the time) who'd ever heard of such a diet, so score one for Sweet Valley nerds!
I'm a veggie (always have been) and I think that meal sounds disgusting ... due to the mushrooms mainly, and I'm not a big fan of squash. Y'know what really grinds my gears ... the way all eateries only ever have one vegetarian option and 90% of the time it incorporates mushrooms. I can't be the only veggie who despises mushrooms? Def sounds like a typically dubious moral of the story on the part of the ghosty ... On another note, why did the YA lit always portray veggies as health freaks or as eating really weird things? We're still allowed to eat crisps and chocolate. And don't non-veggies ever eat nuts or vegetables? Huh. Sorry about that
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Man, I missed a lot of the SVT books. Don't think I ever read past maybe 40 or so.
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Bruce is also not amused as nobody's buying his T-shirts - at $10 each I'm not surprised.
God, when Bruce grows up he's going to piss away the Patman fortune on really crappy marketing ideas, isn't he? And then he'll have to move in with cousinbrother Roger. Oooh, I hope we see that in SV Confidential/Heights!
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Oh, and I loved the reference to The Stand. :)
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I love The Stand. It's on a par with IT; I can never decide which one of those I prefer.
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My favorite King book has always been Dolores Claiborne, with Everything's Eventual being a close second. Did you read Duma Key?
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I too was disappointed (but not surprised) with the way they handled Steven being a vegetarian. I made the same decision when I was 9 and it was hard until I was about 15 because I was alone in my beliefs...so I give Steven some credit.
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Anyways, this must be my week, because I adored both this book and Yours For A Day when I was a kid, and both appeared this week.
Also, I should point out that I learned what a vegan was because of this book. And I was actually one of the few people in my grade (6th at the time) who'd ever heard of such a diet, so score one for Sweet Valley nerds!
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Sweet Valley has it's merits. Unfortunately, it also has it's pitfalls, like the crappy ending to Steven's veggie venture.
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