| Sweet Valley University #30: Beauty and the Beach |
[May. 16th, 2008|11:30 pm] |
Sweet Valley University #30: Beauty and the Beach
This is the first book in the second “Lifeguards” series of SVU. If you had asked me a week ago if there was such a mini-series, I would've told you that you were high. No one would be stupid enough to put their life in Jessica and Elizabeth's hands once, let alone on two separate occasions. Those girls have killers shadowing their every move! But here we have it. SVU: Lifeguards. I looked at the cover and thought it was a Baywatch rip-off. My sister saw the cover and commented that it was like that time the characters on Saved By the Bell became lifeguards. In any case, it's a rip-off of someone, but I'll let you pick.
Luckily for me, the first part of the first “Lifeguards” mini-series has been recapped already by ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) julieannie here. What's weird to me is that book was about 10 books previous to this one, and now it's the next summer. It took 100+ books to cover one year in Sweet Valley High but only ten to over a year in SVU. This is not the SV time warp I know and love. Frankly, I'm a little insulted that the editors decided to do SVU in something closer to real time. I don't like realism in my Sweet Valley.
From left to right we have: Theo, Elizabeth (maybe Jessica?), Ryan (Ben?), Jessica (Elizabeth?), Ben (Ryan?), Miranda and Priya
No Nina or Winston even though they're the only series regulars to appear in this book along with the twins. Discrimination!!
( Baywatch Action! ) |
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| SVH foreign covers |
[May. 16th, 2008|04:06 pm] |
Holy crap, you guys! I'm sitting at home sick making trouble with the internet and found this website!!!! It has real people copying the SVH covers!!!! |
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| #59: In Love Again |
[May. 16th, 2008|07:33 am] |
Hi, first-time recapper here! It’s like the first day at school, I’m all nervous. Since my mother threw out my old SVH collection, I’m going to make do with whatever I can find in the charity shops. So far I’ve found... well, this one. Bear with me, it’s stupidly long. I don’t have the art of concise recapping down yet.
The cover is less frightening than normal, although the artist has made quite a shocking error. I couldn’t find a picture, but Todd has been given BLUE eyes. No, no, artist! Todd has coffee-brown eyes. Elizabeth and Jessica have ocean eyes, Todd has caffeine eyes. Come on now, this is basic stuff.
( Read more... ) |
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| I have found something that may be of interest....... |
[May. 15th, 2008|09:08 am] |
I've been looking through my old school work and letters from friends when I was a youthful teenager, and I've come across some fan fiction we wrote back in the day about Sweet Valley! It's about the shameful secrets the characters may have that we don't know about. Does anybody have any objections to me posting it? I don't have any accounts at any FF sites otherwise I'd post there. MODs, feel free to delete this if it's not appropriate or in the wrong place and muchos apologies if so!
On a different note, I've just read SVT Patty's Last Dance (which is my next recap by the way). I didn't even know she was in SVT! When did she appear? |
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| I Wonder.... |
[May. 15th, 2008|05:11 pm] |
How has Sweet Valley influenced your life?
I'm not talking body image issues, other little things.
I once decorated my Christmas Tree in Blue and Silver.
Since then it's been, Red and Gold, Purple and Silver, Gold and Silver, last year was Black and White, this year will be White and Gold and next year White and Pink.
I can never hear the word TOFU with out mentally adding GLOW.
What about you? |
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| I dig a french bikini on hawaii island |
[May. 15th, 2008|03:45 pm] |
Does anyone here watch Gossip Girl? I saw the latest episode, 1.17, yesterday and couldn't help but notice a huge resemblance to SVH.
( cut for Gossip Girl spoilers )
Generally speaking, can you think of any other instances where modern tv shows/books/movies etc have borrowed from the Sweet Valley High series? (probably unintentionally, no one wants to admit to being inspired by SVH.) |
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| SVH #93 - Stepsisters |
[May. 14th, 2008|03:31 pm] |
In my last recap (SVH #81 – Rosa’s Lie), I claimed that Rosa Jameson was not in any other SVH book because, you know, she’s a minority. Turns out, I was WRONG! SVH #93, Stepsisters, is not only fabulous enough to show another minority’s struggle to fit into the bleach-white world of Sweet Valley, but the girl in question actually takes advice from Rosa! Oh, Sweet Valley High and racial issues… once again, the topic is handled in a sensitive and non-offensive manner. Seeing how no one had recapped this book yet, I thought I’d recap another book that tackles the same issue (racism!) in almost an even worse manner. |
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| OH MY ACTUAL GOD |
[May. 13th, 2008|03:26 pm] |
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I am sending ot a mass mailing at my office to all the new employees, and...
THERE IS A SUZANNE DELVIN.
awesome!!!!! |
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[May. 12th, 2008|08:02 pm] |
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Hello everyone! Longtime lurker here who just wanted to say hello, and I'm just curious: Whatever became of the winners of the tote bag? Were they announced? I was curious as to who had the winning entries! |
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| SVH Super Thriller FEAR: A Killer on Board |
[May. 12th, 2008|05:10 pm] |
Hey, remember when Ned was a terrible(r than usual father) and the SVPD was inept(er than usual) in the last book? And then John Marin got locked up and everyone was like, "Ha ha ha, he's gone forever and we're going to be a-okay?" Yeah, they're totally not. This book is resplendent with a blatant disregard for protocol by virtually every tertiary character. Seriously, they make the camp counselors in Montana look capable.
Covah!
Look at those waves! They're so treacherous! And that is the biggest window I've ever seen on a boat. Through it we can see a horrified Liz and Jess. Also, do those little (big?) windows REALLY open? Especially out? This is all a little suspect to me. Are there any sailors out there who can verify this? When you open the cover, the scene is actually one from the book! Jess and Liz are wearing the outfits described, the water glass is knocked over, and Marin's even wearing a flannel shirt while brandishing his knife. Marin's got that floppy Dawson circa season 1 hair going on.
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| SVU #21: For the Love of Ryan |
[May. 12th, 2008|01:52 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | boyfriend stealing, cheating cheaters, julieannie, lifeguard series, matchmaking, scheming jessica, summer break, summer love, svu, tom watts, winston egbert | ] |
On the cover, Liz is in the hat and Jess is in the really high shorts and Ryan is the lifeguard
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| Sweet Valley COmic |
[May. 12th, 2008|12:37 pm] |
I had a brilliant idea. i want to make a sweet valley comic (kinf of like the re-release of the Babysitters club book#1 in graphic novel format).
If only i could draw. But the twins could be the superheros and they could have all these powers. Like, elizabeths Laviere of Truth to tell her when Jess is in trouble, and thier Pacific Ocean blue-green eyes with the power to like hypnotize people and make them do stuff. And of course, Bruce has the 1Bruce1 car that is like a supercar with superspeed, and Tood with his almighty Toddpunch!!! kind of like the POW! in the bubble bursty-thing.
i tried drawing some sketches yesterday, but jessica lookes decidedly cross eyed and i just really suck at drawing. Any other ideas for superpowers??? who is a good drawer and can draw some pics? i'm good at copying other peoples drawings....so if i just had something to rip off....
Ah, the twins. helping the world one mousy-brown haired fatso at a time... |
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| Temporary Handicaps |
[May. 12th, 2008|09:29 am] |
I was thinking about this last night as I was falling asleep (I know, I need a life): Can you guys think of a time when a character in Sweet Valley was handicapped and stayed that way?
For example, we have poor heroically deaf Regina who goes to magic Switzerland and gets her hearing restored. Or Mike McAllery who is paralyzed and then magically not. Same with Enid when she's in the plane crash. And Ken Matthews is blind for one book and then he gets his sight back at the end.
What gives? Does Sweet Valley have healing properties? Should I go to the nearest hospital and round up the deaf/blind/paralyzed people to cure them? |
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| SVH #81 - Rosa's Lie |
[May. 11th, 2008|05:46 pm] |
First off, the cover for this is just amazing. Rosa’s left boob is at least three cups larger than her right. Not to mention the high-waisted jeans the twins are wearing and the purple wannabe trenchcoat that Jessica is rocking. And she DOES rock it! At any rate, it’s the perfect way to show the difference between two American girls and one “chicana” (as Rosa continually calls herself). And, as the book tells us, real chicana women have curves. The book is not at all un-PC, as you can tell…..
The A plot featuring Rosa and her family (who are, oddly enough, never mentioned again that I’m aware of) is amazing – that is, amazingly lame. The real genius is the B plot: Bruce vs. Todd is a battle of wills for their Phi Epsilon fraternity!!
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[May. 8th, 2008|06:19 pm] |
Okay. So I was cleaning out my bedroom because the fact is that I am now back at home after graduating college (\o/) and if I am going to live in my bedroom, I need room for my stuff. And I have a lot of books. So I've decided to get rid of my Baby-sitters Club/Little Sister/Sweet Valley/Goosebumps books, and I was chuckling at all the crazy stuff I found on the shelf. But then I found the Best Thing Ever.
Okay, does anyone remember the dolls made? (Seen here, if you do not.) Well, I definitely had both. And you see those little books in the boxes with them?
Yes. I still have mine.
Aptly titled "Jessica's Story" and "Elizabeth's Story," the two are short stories featuring wacky situations the twins get themselves into. They're roughly twelve pages each, and I have decided to cap them for your snarking pleasure. Because why clean your room when you can snark on the internet.
( Jessica's Story (just because it appears to go first of the two) )
( Elizabeth's Story )
With all that said, what did happen do you think? :P |
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| Favorite, best, essential books? |
[May. 8th, 2008|09:28 am] |
I hope this kind of post is allowed...if not, let me know and apologies :)
So, I have just rediscovered the series and this community after the news of the reissues. I've successfully found SVH books 1-10 and all my books that were in storage. I'm also planning to order the Night to Remember - Evil Twin arc.
I'm looking for anyone's recommendations for insanely awesome SVH books. Do you guys have favorites that I should definitely consider tracking down? I didn't read every book as a kid, and I was a snob about ugly covers so I'm sure there are a lot I never read. (For instance, I never read #29 Bitter Rivals where Amy comes back and is evil, but it sounds awesome so it's on my list to order.
Help me, fellow Sweet Valley lovers/haters! Let the recommendations flow! |
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| Sweet Valley High #2: Secrets (recap three) |
[May. 6th, 2008|06:24 pm] |
I don't mean to flood 1Bruce1, but I'm bored, and Secrets is just so snarkable!
Here's the cover. http://madteaparty.dreamhosters.com/closet/bookcovers/svh/svh002.jpg . Liz looks like she sees a roach in her sister's hair. and Jessica is all "more juicy details while I talk on my Barbie phone!"
Snark ahead. Plus...how I became the Sweet Valley Girl at college.
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[May. 6th, 2008|04:04 pm] |
I have an extra copy of SVH Super Edition "Earthquake". If you'd like to buy it (1.00 + shipping) or swap, feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me (iheartbusterk@gmail.com). |
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| Sweet Valley Twins #16: Second Best |
[May. 6th, 2008|12:49 pm] |
It's been likes, aaaggggeeeesss since I posted a review, but I'm back (I heard that groan of despair from the back row, ahem, shush back there)! I've been v v busy with RL crap, unfortunately (and exposing my soul for the chance of a tote bag; that made me hide in my bedroom for at least an hour, lol). I've picked a SVT book from random from my bookcase that I know hasn't been recapped, so, without further ado:
SECOND BEST!
Yes, this book is very Elizabeth featured. And, speaking of the gorgeous, graceful bodied twin herself, here she is on the cover:
 
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