Sweet Valley High #38 Leaving Home

[rhitroadkill]

The cover is Liz sitting at her typewriter, staring dreamily at a poster of Switzerland (a chalet on a lake if you were interested) while Jess looks schemeingly on from the doorway.

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[dwanollah1]

This may have been one of the lamest B-plots in SVH history. The stereotypes! The schmaltz! The Winston! Gah!

And just remember, kids... you can never go anywhere or do anything because you MIGHT MISS YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND BOYFRIEND AND HOMETOWN if you do. The horrors.

Oh, and this?

"because what if she meats some hottie Eurotrash and wants a hookup?"

Best typo ever! Liz would be much more interesting if she decided to meat [sic] some Eurotrash hottie! ;)

[rhitroadkill]

Aw man, that's what I get for not editing. Lord. Part of me wants to go back and fix that typo so people won't know how stupid I am but the other part of me thinks it is pretty darn funny too. So I guess it stays.

And yeah, the B plot==lame. My favorite part is how the "poor old man" is going to throw Winston a party with some of the lottery money. Guess we know how he got poor in the first place.

[tooimpurenangel]

THIRDED!

[irinaauthor]

Mr. Bow-chica-bow-bow Collins suggested Liz read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night for extra credit. ::wink wink:: Extra credit huh? Mmmhhhmmm. Oh, after reading up about the novel, seems it is about alcoholism and affairs.

Not only that, but Dick Diver's affair is with a teenaged girl: a blonde movie starlet. I wonder if she was also a perfect size six?

[melody_powers]

Great recap!

The next day, Liz goes to her interview. She dresses like a librarian.

Hmm? :-p

And what's the deal with every single foreigner being some kind of jerk? Mr. Sterne, Pierre (Lila's mother's annoying French boyfriend from the Margo miniseries), the guest teachers from other countries from "Jessica Against Bruce"... I'm probably leaving a few out, but damn!

[cookie77]

Rene from Spring Break.

[kakeochi_umai]

I didn't think those teachers were jerks, just really heavily stereotyped. LOVED how the Japanese teacher was like "Students don't behave like this in Japan!!!!" though. Students do indeed behave like that, and worse, but the denial is amazing, so that line could be satire at its most awesome. But I wouldn't give the ghostwriters that kind of credit.

Another really awful stereotype that springs to mind is those horrible, horrible werewolf-in-London books. I cringe just thinking about those.

[kakeochi_umai]

I read this book for the first time last year and nearly threw it across the room. I moved to another continent for a THREE-year contract, and may end up living here permanently, partly because of the job market in my industry of choice, and partly because - GASP! - I happen to like it here. Apparently this makes me a horrible, selfish person who doesn't care about her family, because if I REALLY loved them I wouldn't even leave my hometown for ONE year. I really hated how this book basically validated Jessica and Steven's sociopathic bullshit because it got Liz to "see the light". Ugh.

[dwanollah1]

And you'll probably never have a totally awesome boyfriend who gives you Granny Jewelry either, kakeochi! Nyah!

I love the "you can't get Mexican food in Switzerland" bit, too. Dudes, I've had Mexican food in England, France, Namibia, Iceland, and yes, Switzerland. Yes, it was HORRIBLE, but still. And as much as I love refried beans and albondigas, it ain't enough of a draw to nevereverever leave Southern California.

[tooimpurenangel]

LOL. I've had better Mexican food in Georgia than in Southern California!

[kakeochi_umai]

And you'll probably never have a totally awesome boyfriend who gives you Granny Jewelry either, kakeochi! Nyah!

You've convinced me! I'm going home to find someone who'll give me granny jewelry and perfume sachets! But first I'm going to stop off at the stationery shop for a planner to schedule our dates and fuck sessions in.

[tooimpurenangel]

I love how leather miniskirt = whore. Hated this book, but your recap is awesome.
ps I intend to use "schemeingly" as often as possible.