Sweet Valley High #1: Double Love (2008 Reissue Edition)

[hellobrisvegas]

Yes, I'm recapping a book. Not a TV episode, an actual book from a library with pages and words and shit. My reasons for bringing you this recap are not because I'm trying to prove to you that I can read (though I can, and how!) but because I need an excuse to tell you this God-awful story. Brace yourself.

Picture this: you walk into your local

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[pip3r]

i almost with they had just eliminated the pool push. so much change with this hip world of ours. who evens uses pools anymore? no one swims, and tanning is evil or out of a building!

[hellobrisvegas]

Let's not say things we can't take back. The pool-push is irreplaceable!

pool

[pip3r]

u have to disagree, i wud have hated them to remov the pool-push

[imakittiecat]

So glad I didn't buy this edition..

[hellobrisvegas]

I only borrowed it from the library, and I feel cheated...

[mocha_latta]

He doesn't stop to help her pick them up, though, and Liz thinks that if she'd been Jessica he would've.
it's called putting out, Elizabeth. I would say try it sometime, but she would just ignore me for several time-warped years until she runs off to some foreign country and loses it to some jerkwad, spineless prince who she's pretty much just met...
or something.

She hates this thought. Not only that, but "sometimes she really hated reality." Fuck off, Jessica; you live in Sweet Valley.
To be fair, her reality involves werwolves, vampires, kidnapping cults and John Pfeifer.

Reading your recaps is always a pleasure m'dear, even if it is to horribly abused reissues (even if the cover model is how I pictured the twins)

[hellobrisvegas]

Thank you for your kind words. And kudos to you for picturing the twins like that. Maybe it's just me...

And I always kinda wanted Elizabeth to end up losing it to Todd, even though this reisssue has reminded me what a dick he is.

[hanfastolfe]

*laugh* I loved your excoriation of the re-done version of this book. I died laughing at several lines in it, especially your mocking of "Toddles". He comes off as much less of a class act now that I've seen this refresher on how the Todd/Elizabeth relationship started.

[hungryandfrozen]

This modernisation sounds excruciating. I laughed so hard at your run-down of it though. For some reason illogical plot points from the original are even more reprehensible here. Oh and losing all the original details like 1Bruce1? Unforgiveable!

[hellobrisvegas]

I just don't know why they did it! I can't work it out! I'm upset!