SVH #5 - All Night Long

[kiwiria]

As requested.

Sweet Valley High #5, All Night Long, or, The One Where Liz Is An Even Huger Doormat Than Usual.

Comments

[cookie77]

... which makes it really, really odd that she just a couple of pages later agrees to go into the woods with him, ending up in an abandoned boathouse,

It is sad, but back then, girls really were not raised to think they had any choice in what happened to them. You did what you were told, even, or perhaps especially, by a guy.

[princesschan]

Nut's the that man, I would stolen his damn car. See college boys are jerks.

And I'm sorry, but Alice Wakefield has just proven to me that she's an incompetant mother. If she can't tell the difference in her two children even when they dress different and do their hair different, she should just give up now.

[kiwiria]

Ah, but Elizabeth had changed clothes into one of Jessica's outfits.

[esc_key]

Even if she changed, I think Alice is a piss poor mother if she can't tell the difference between her children after 16 years of knowing them. No twins are perfectly identical.

I mean, if I wore my twins' clothes I could maybe fool my mom for a split second and then she'd get to looking at me and talking to me and be like "What the fuck are you doing"?

VH must be really, really huge. Elizabeth and Jessica both have a tourist guide test that day (must be a SV thing - I've never heard of any school arranging that!),
Do a lot tourists come to Sweet Valley High? Is it a vacation destination or something!?

[kiwiria]

Oh, I agree completely! I was just trying to play the devil's advocate :)

I think the tourist guide thing is for SV and not SVH - it's just the school that gives the test for some weird reason.

Interesting how this is the only time the tourist guide license is mentioned though... once summer *actually* comes, they head out for a biking trip instead! Go figure.

[lilysaid]

ahahaha okay, that cover is PRICELESS. how do we convey that this guy is sexually experienced? by coiffing and mustaching him in the style of every 1970's/80's porn star, of course.

[kiwiria]

What I was relatively impressed by though, is the fact that if you look closely, Scott actually does look like an 18-19-year old with a mustache, instead of the 33'ish year old he resembles at first glance.

[versipellis]

Wow. It's fascinating how treatment of this kind of thing changes by the time we get to Don't Go Home With John.

Thanks for recapping - I didn't read this book ^^

[dramaturgy]

Man, I remember looking at that moustache and thinking, "Damn, that's skeazy." And he looks sort of like Raul Julia.

(Chase is one what?)

[cookie77]

Number One in the competition. And presumably it was supposed to be a play on words, like the chase had been won, by Chase, who was #1. Except I don't think you win a chase.