Some drive-by flist rape.

[marvolo]

Yes, I'm posting again. Needless to say, the following is full of spoilers in every direction.

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[leestone]

I found this SVT review at Amazon. Now I want to read this one. O_o

MIDDLE SCHOOL GETS MARRIED, THE (Sweet Valley Twins, No 68) by Francine Pascal
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Please Pass the Egg..., October 26, 2004
The Middle School Gets Married, book number 68, is one of the most entertaining and lighthearted stories written in the Sweet Valley Twins series. The dilemma facing all of the kids at Sweet Valley Middle School when they are assigned to a husband or wife for a period of a fortnight as a multi-disciplinary project, provides readers with some astonishing and hilarious insight into the characters we love to love, or love to hate, and also gives the series' author, Jamie Suzanne, the opportunity to explore in greater depth certain characters we have already neatly pigeon-holed and dismissed. A message on the seriousness of marriage is nonetheless a part of the adventure, even whilst we're laughing at Jessica Wakefield's unfortunate experiences with eggs, or Bruce Patman's comical transformation into Mr Family Man. Each couple, given an egg meant to represent their child, is expected to manage parenting, budgets and chores in the course of their `family life' at school. The most engaging and spirited of dialogues from the various characters take place during cooking and shopping times, with each feuding, mismatched couple trying their best to achieve a decent grade despite obvious personality clashes and consistent bickering.

Bruce Patman, otherwise known as Mr Cool to his less enthusiastic groupies, is delightfully caricatured as an overly-zealous husband and father who tries so hard to be perfect in all aspects of child-rearing and cooking that you begin to wonder if this is truly Francine Pascal's beloved villain you're reading about. However, his patronizing and condescending attitude is not entirely lost, only re-focused in an opposite direction: instead of bullying, Bruce is now baking. And instead of combing his hair, Bruce is now fussing over the egg he shares with Elizabeth Wakefield, Jessica's twin. As Sweet Valley Middle School's most eligible bad-boy, Bruce Patman is often given some classic, if not classy, lines in which he proves beyond a doubt that he really means to be as shallow and obnoxious as his author intends him to be. But even the most disapproving of readers will laugh over Mr Cool's lectures to Elizabeth about infant safety and the nutritional value of spinach, and be touched by Bruce's insight into his family's own lack of a Mr Family Man.

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Jesus, what is with that really long review?? asdasdjakd. Oh Bruce :,(

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[leestone]

ahahahahahaha, I know. You should go and read some SVT and SVH reviews at Amazon. They are either barely-coherent preteen Plebe to the Nth degree or, like, PhD LEVEL META ON FRANCINE PASCAL, OMFG. It is phenomenal. XD

I want to buy it, but can I justify an online purchase whose shipping and handling is ROUGHLY EIGHT THOUSAND TIMES THE ITEM COST???

I am using a lot of capslock here. I guess contemplation of Bruce Patman does that to me. :/ Also I am super-psyched because I have this dorky "Unicorn Power" icon to use, which makes me think of the Unicorns club in SVT! Again! Phenomenal!