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Sweet Valley Saga II Magna Edition: The Wakefield Legacy: The Untold Story (Part One)

Nov 21, 2007 17:45

Here we go! The sequel to The Wakefields of Sweet Valley is sadly not as awesome as that book, and I spent much of my time reading this letting out gloomy sighs. I mean, I loved the last book. But this is like...you know when Rachel started dating Russ on Friends and everyone but her could see that Russ was just an even dorkier version of Ross, but ( Read more... )

dead boyfriend alert, omg teh sex!, magna edition, strange view of europe, recapper: daniellafromage, nyc

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daniellafromage November 21 2007, 20:00:59 UTC

I LOVE Rawdon Crawley! He is possibly my favourite genuine nice guy in literature. I have a shameful crush on his incarnation in the 1998 TV series, where he has the most impressive moustaches ever seen in a period drama. <3! Of course, I love Becky as well, as I am naturally inclined to love all bitchy, manipulative girls (see: Wakefield, Jessica)!

Also, you're totally right that he was the youngest, so more fool me. Was it the elder brother who married Lady Jane Sheepshanks?

schmandalous November 21 2007, 21:48:59 UTC

Becky rules. But I too love bitchy, manipulative women!

Also you referenced Buffy, Gone with the Wind AND lolcats. So pretty much you win at life.

libuschka November 21 2007, 19:43:59 UTC

Theodore buys a ticket to Cleveland, Ohio. Things I know about Cleveland: 1) There's a Hellmouth situated there; 2) That's everything I know about Cleveland.
OMG! I love you!

Great recap! Even though you say the book is boring, you've managed to make it marvelously entertaining.

daniellafromage November 21 2007, 20:02:37 UTC

Thanks! I actually deleted lots of other bitching about historical inaccuracies because...well, I didn't want to get too bogged down with them. :)

libuschka November 21 2007, 22:25:25 UTC

No way, I loved the bitching. I'm very impressed, actually, that you went to all the trouble of looking up facts and doing research for a Sweet Valley book!

I only have vague memories of reading this one as a kid, but I do remember it was the first I had ever heard of the San Fransisco earthquake.

kakeochi_umai June 25 2009, 10:50:59 UTC

You should have kept them!

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daniellafromage November 21 2007, 20:05:08 UTC

I flipped forward, and there the ponytail description was. I'm looking forward to reading more!

dramaturgy November 21 2007, 20:23:00 UTC

Alice Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson Larson.
For this reference, you win.

FYI, I looked up the anti-miscegenation laws in Minnesota in the nineteenth-century, and it was totally cool for whites and Native Americans to get married. As long as they don't travel to Idaho, Nevada, or Oregon, they should be fine!
A lot more common than you might think, especially on the frontier!

I just looked it up on Google Maps, and it would have been quicker for them to go to Vegas!
Except there's also mountains between the coast and Las Vegas, if I remember right... and those would NOT have been easier to cross, especially at the beginning of the century. But otherwise yeah, wtf.

daniellafromage November 21 2007, 21:33:03 UTC

Hee, I know. I just wanted to make a joke about Vegas weddings. Je ne regrette rien!

bcsmurfettegirl November 21 2007, 20:24:34 UTC

Drew Carey's from Cleveland.

daniellafromage November 21 2007, 21:31:45 UTC

Sadly, I have no idea who she is!

irinaauthor November 21 2007, 23:08:02 UTC

You're really not missing much.

alphabet26 November 21 2007, 23:24:22 UTC

He's the guy in this icon! He had a show, The Drew Carey Show, and hosted the American version of Whose Line is it Anyway?

I've spent the last six months singing "Go West" (Pet Shop Boys version) at karaoke. Wish I'd had your version to sing.

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