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Originally posted by BirthaBlue4
I was a BSC crackhead. I think I read all of them up until they got that new girl Abbey.
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You know how people talk about when a TV series "jumped the shark"? That's when a good series turns the corner and really goes down. (
www.jumptheshark.com )
Well, I think that the BSC jumped the shark when Ann Martin started making major changes and added Abbey and sent Dawn to California.( I couldn't stand Abbey and the discussions of her problems!) That made the second chapter, usually the one that told us all about the girls, so long and unwieldy and boring that lots of people I know began to skip it. About this time, I noticed that in the front of both BSC and BSC Little Sister books, the author would offer her thanks to some author or other for all her help with the series. I think that the last part of the BSC books was ghostwritten.
There was a short series after that about each individual girl but it was pretty lame and it never went anywhere. After that, Ann Martin began to write non-BSC books. I haven't read many of those later ones but she wrote some good ones before BSC--like Me and Katie the Pest, Bummer Summer, and Eleven Kids, No Pets.
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