Book 70: Stacey and the Cheerleaders, part 5

[glitterberrys]

Chapters 13-15 ahead! Unfortunately, the book is still really boring through to the end. It's short because I really don't like the ending of this book and don't care to spend a lot of time talking about it.

Comments

[kakeochi_umai]

You know, this is one thing I really don't like about the BSC books. They never fail at anything.

I just reread the bathroom bitching scene to see what bitchy shit they were saying and the cheerleaders say Stacey's better at cheerleading than all of them. Of course. One fanfic I read said they were canon Mary Sues. Truer words were never spoken.

Edit: First! (Dick! Asshole! Douchebag! Photoshopped!)

Edit again: HOLY FUCKING SUE, BATMAN. “The reason you didn’t make it was because you were too good. You’re so talented, so pretty, so smart, so nice. I think a lot of the girls felt, well, threatened by you. So we took Kathleen.”

Although, since Corinne was the one who didn't want her and was talking the other girls out of taking her, she could have been lying.

[author_by_night]

Although, since Corinne was the one who didn't want her and was talking the other girls out of taking her, she could have been lying.

Oh, that totally sounds like something a teen girl would make up. I definitely don't buy the "you're too pretty/talented" stuff, because... why would you be rejected for being too talented? I can buy the pretty/nice part, but not the rest. Then again, I'm trying to reason with a BSC book...

[irinaauthor]

Seriously. If they're a competative team they'll want the best, and forget the other stuff. I must conclude that SMS has a crappy cheer team. Imagine that!

[ladynorbert]

I love your icon.

[author_by_night]

They start going on about who's dating and kissing who (they're OMG-ing about a kiss on the cheek, what the hell?)

Eh, in fairness, they're 8th graders. I mean, I knew 8th graders who would've been way past that, but a lot still thought meeting at the roller rink counted as a hot date when I went. (Unless I'm thinking of sixth grade. It's all a blur now.)

And apparently because of Robert's hissy fit, they're instituting new rules about keeping your grades up or else you'll get cut from the team,

As opposed to those rules already being there, but not exactly enforced.

I work in education to some extent; there's loads of politics behind that kind of policy. It's there, but the coaches have kids' backs, and if they like the kid enough, they will negotiate with the principal to keep their player on the team. So while the policy is a good one, it doesn't always matter. What matters is how much your coach wants you. That would have been a more realistic scenario.

[hungryandfrozen]

"Forget A Clockwork Orange. Forget American Psycho. They start dissing the BSC."

Genius :D

[kaimagus]

They never fail at anything (well, that's hyperbole, they've failed at least twice when they couldn't cure autism or overthrow the corrupt beauty pageant system).

And those were pretty early on in the series, right? I only made it to about halfway through the BSC (actually, this might have been the last book I read), but do you think the BSC got like Sweet Valley High, where the powers that be seemed to decide that girls were less interested in characters who were going through issues you could at least partly emphasize with, and more interested in throwing themselves into a sensational fantasy life? It kind of seems like it to me. Like someone was saying the other day, as the series went on, Jessi didn't just like ballet- she was a total star, Dawn went from being a healthy eater to a militant vegan or whatever. You had much less chance of identifying with what they were doing as the series went on, instead it was like putting real life aside to be someone awesome for awhile.

...Or maybe I'm reading too much into them. ;)

[frankdbunny]

You had much less chance of identifying with what they were doing as the series went on, instead it was like putting real life aside to be someone awesome for awhile.

Who would want to put aside real life to be Dawn?

[ext_174035]

Well, my first time around, I totally thought she was cool. Bok choi! Tofu! Brown rice! Individualism! Now I just want to stuff a burger in her mouth and be done with her.

[tygre]

BINGO. I thought Dawn was so.cool. when I was a kid -- I grew up in the Midwest and ZOMG CALI seemed so exotic and hip. Now I have to about force myself to read a Dawn book.

I have more sympathy for Stacy and Claudia than I did as a kid, though I still hate Karen Brewer.

[sweetumms33]

Lovely review! Heh, middle school girls were crazy!