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I thought it was very realistic i could relate to Kristy moving to a different neighbourhood, it must of been hard. Some parts of the book were cruel, like the war between Kristy and Shannon but very sad too-poor Louie!!!

This is a really good book about Kristy and how she feuds with dim Shannon Kilbourne, the nasty girl up the street. Some of their pranks are dead funny and it is also slightly tearjerking when it is louie the dogs funeral. Top quality stuff here!

This book is great, but sad about Louie the dog. Anyway, next door to Kristy lives a girl named Shannon. She's a big snob. She makes fun off poor Louie, Kristy's dog. Louie's blind. Then, Kristy and Shannon become great friends. I think that Shannon should have her own books, and a lot of them, too. She seems nice, at the end. In the beginning, yeah, she was snobby. But she turns out to be fine.

Poor Claudia! I really feel sorry for her! Her best friend is trash!!!!!!

In Friends Forever #2, Stacey instently (as usual) falls in love with the new guy in school. At first, Stacey thinks Jeremy would be wonderful for Claudia but when Jeremy isn't interested in her Stacey moves in.......

UGH! In the BSC series Stacey seemed a little guy crazy but always sweet and caring. In the Friends Forever books however, Stacey's nothing but a shallow self-centered brat who only cares about herself! Claudia has every right to be mad at her!!!!!!

I LOVE THESE BOOKS! I CAN'T WAIT TO READ #3! THANKS SO MUCH ANN!

In Friends Forever #2, Stacey incounters a new guy in school who her best friend has a crush on. Not only does Stacey STEAL Jeremy from Claudia, she makes fun of Claudia so much that Claud actually broke! Stacey is SO NASTY in the Friends Forever series!!!!!! She was much sweeter in the Baby-sitters' Club! I still do like this book however. I love the new direction Ann M. Martin is going in. Everything isn't so unreal anymore. Not all the endings are "happily ever after". This new series has a bunch of twists and turns! GREAT JOB ANN M. MARTIN! I really can't wait for Friends Forever #3 and California Diaries #13!

I read it 7 times.Still love it!In this book Claud and Stace are fighting over a boy.Will Claud and Stace speak to each other again?Just read it and found out by yourself.
The "Friends BSC Forever" is the newest series of The Baby-Sitters Club.

Lots Of Love,
Fulliem Quach xoxoxoxo

I found the book quite entertaining. It made me feel like I was in Europe again. I was a little sad when I had realized that bsc only went to a couple of places. Also, it is VERY fictional when it came to the part of Abby meeting the queen. I mean, come on! THE QUEEN. I would suggest renting the book from the library 1st. If you really like it, then you can buy it.

This book was really good. Although not everyone likes it mostly because it's not realistic, I really liked it. It had a lot of adventure, action, and suspense to it. So I personally think that this book was really good. Great job you're doing, Ms. Martin, and keep up the good work!

Go across the world ... with the BSC! The BSC is going global! Kristy, Stacey, Abby, Jessi, and Mallory have signed up for their best school trip yet: a week in London and Paris!

Stacey can't wait to shop and museum-hop. Jjessi's excited about a special dance performance. Abby's dyying to visit the BSC's little princess, Victoria Kent. Mal's looking forward to meeting her distant cousins. And Kristy finds love... when she least expects it.

This time, the Baby-Sitters are going to have plenty to write home about. What is going on about Mary Anne, Claudia, Dawn, and Logan? Their at a playground camp. So what is going on about the Baby-Sitters' adventures? Read this book to find out!

Okay. It's totally unrealistic, I'll admit that, but this is a great book about friends and troubles and that sort of thing... funny, imaginative and well-written, this is one of the best BSC books I've ever read.

Here's some of the stuff that happens in this one:

1. Abby sees the Queen at Vic's flower-handing-over ceremony.
2. Kristy gets a crush on a French-speaking Canadian boy.
3. Janine and Claudia bond (at Playground Camp).
4. Stacey finds the remains of a dead guy in her suitcase.
5. Jessi dances as a substitute in Gotham Rhythm.
6. Mallory finds that William Shakespeare is a relative.

This is a great book!

Apparently, when Curt Sampson, a highly-regarded and critically acclaimed author, penned his book about The Masters, it ticked off the members there even more so than did Martha Burk. David Owen is a journeyman writer who hacks a column for one of the golf magazines. He was paid by Augusta National to write a rebuttal to Sampson's book. A big deal was made of the fact that Owen was given "exclusive access" to club archives.
All is sweetness, light and goodness among the azaleas and loblolly pines, heaven knows. Owen even goes so far as to negatively mention Sampson's work by name (tacky). If you don't smell the odor of rotten eggs by now, you probably think Hootie Johnson is an intellectual and a feminist at heart. (Hootie, if you had just thrown the letter away, you could have avoided this whole mess! That was flat-out dumb.) However, maybe Mr. Owen will get to write another book with exclusive access to Augusta's archives, regarding their valiant efforts to find a female member. Remember your integrity, David - that means once you're bought, you stay bought. Advice: unless you're a member at Augusta National, don't waste your time and money on this drivel.

The book was quite interesting and the author apparently researched it very thoroughly. Time after time, Owen refutes (quite convincingly) a number of well-known stories about Augusta National and Clifford Roberts.

The problem with the book is that Owen seems to have written the book to support the following hypotheses: (1) members at Augusta National have not been nor are the racists (in the context of their times) that they have been portrayed as in the mass media, (2) Cliff Roberts was the most misunderstood man in modern history, (3) Without Roberts, TV golf coverage would have been set back 30 years.

The book's one redeeming quality is the way that Owen methodically refutes what have become generally accepted facts over time (for example, that Jack Whitaker was banned from Augusta for 15 years for describing the fans (whoops, patrons) of the Masters as a mob. After reading this, I'm convinced that it didn't happen that way). But Owen adds little new material that you could not find in the Samson or Eubanks books. Owen often goes out of his way to contradict much of what is in Samson's book, and while he claims he is not trying to "pick on Samson," it sure sounds that way to me.

What Owen ends up with is a PR piece for Augusta, which is too bad, because the book is well-written and well paced.

Over the years many untrue articles have appeared concerning Augusta National Golf Club and The Masters. This was probably due to the very private nature of the club which I'm sure rubs some people the wrong way. So to get back at this secret rich man's club, some journalists made up stories and repeated them for years. Now that the archives have finally been opened we are better able to judge the facts. Mr. Owen clears up many of these past inaccuracies in the last third of the book. He also shows us just how "touch and go" the whole enterprise was in the early years. The photographs and maps are worth the price alone and the history of the club is interesting to read. If you have ever been to Augusta you understand what the word "perfection" really means. This book is similar to Curt Sampson's "Hogan" in that it finally dispels much of the nonsense that has been written about these two remarkable gentlemen.

Bought it for the title, which was catchy. Let it sit on my bookshelf for months before I got around to reading it. Didn't realize it was short stories when I bought it, but it made for a quick read.

My first impression was: What a WEIRD book. Which it was. That said, it was an interesting read, made for a few entertaining evenings. It's not literature or anything-- I don't think there's any deep new-age wisdom lurking in stories about people who eat the Lawn Boy, or anything like that, but it was nonetheless an ok means of passing the time.

This is the sort of book I'd recommend to friends if they didn't have to pay for it: good for galloping through, but not worth seeking out or pondering over for any period of time.

I first had these stories read aloud to me by a friend and I could not believe what I was hearing. Slavin writes the most imaginative and original stories ever, on the verge of the sick and twisted, but she manages to do so with both taste and tact. I have honestly never read anything so shocking and amazing in my life. Her short stories actually leave you wanting more. My favorites are Swallowed Whole, Dentaphilia, Blighted and He Came Apart. Get this book!

This is a first rate collection of stories. Unusual and off the wall, they are a breath of fresh air. I'd recommend Slavin's book to anyone looking for a great read.

Raymond West's latest novel is doing very well indeed, so he and his painter wife Joan decide to treat Raymond's old Aunt Jane Marple to a holiday. Miss Marple takes this opportunity to visit in London and spend the week in that eminently traditional, eminently expensive bastion of Edwardian hostelry, Bertram's Hotel. On arriving she immediately recalls her visit of many years ago, when she was still a silly schoolgirl, madly in love with a very unsuitable young man. Most things in the hotel seem to be untouched by the greedy monster of modern time and that is the way Miss Marple likes to see it. But something did change: an undefined atmosphere suggests more than the eye can see. When the absent-minded clergyman Canon Pennyfather goes missing, Jane knows that she still can trust her dark premonitions.

Agatha Christie was sixty-six when she wrote At Bertram's Hotel and by doing so proved that she still could recall the spirit of her earlier works. All the elements of a typical Christie mystery are present. The setting is this time an Edwardian hotel full of memories of that golden age (supposedly based on the Brown's Hotel in London). Christie looks back to the good old days with more than just melancholy. The main characters also seemed to have travelled trough time: old spinsters, colonels and clergymen, they all carry past glory as some kind of burden.

When the plot really unfolds, try not to miss the hidden clues, because the conclusion is surprisingly 'fair'. If you succeed in ignoring the numerous red herrings, you must be able to solve at least part of the mystery. This is certainly one of the Miss Marple mysteries worth remembering.

One of the best of Agatha Christie's later mysteries. Miss Marple has found the perfect spot to stay for her vacation. Nothing ever seems to change at Bertram's Hotel, everything is just as it was before the war. But is this all this charming gentility merely a facade for something far more dangerous?

Miss Jane Marple is in London on holiday and is staying at posh Bertram's hotel. Where Miss Marple goes, murder is sure to follow and it does. The details of Bertram's Hotel- the service, the high tea, etc- are great touches from a bygone era and help to make this book memorable. The plot is well-constructed and well-written although there are a few signs of the decline in Christie's work that was to begin a few years later.Overall,this is an enjoyable mystery by the greatest mystery writer ever.

I thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Hilderbrand's style of writing. She captures you immediately and makes you laugh and cry throughout the story. The story line is good, but complicated and maybe too many story lines going on at once. However, the ending was a kick and it screams sequel. I loved most of the characters, although she left you hanging with one character, Vance, who seemed incomplete and not well defined, in comparison to her other characters. I definitely recommend this book and look forward to other books by Ms. Hilderbrand. She is a great author.

I thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Hilderbrand's style of writing. She captures you immediately and makes you laugh and cry throughout the story. The story line is good, but complicated and maybe too many story lines going on at once. However, the ending was a kick and it screams sequel. I loved most of the characters, although she left you hanging with one character, Vance, who seemed incomplete and not well defined, in comparison to her other characters. I definitely recommend this book and look forward to other books by Ms. Hilderbrand. She is a great author

This book was great! I finished reading it in 2 days--I just couldn't put it down. I was so disappointed when I finished the book because I just didn't want the story to end! The author made the characters seem completely real and I can't wait to visit Nantucket!! Buy this book--you'll love it!

I got hooked on the series a few years ago with "A Case of Lone Star." I have read every one since and love them - Kinky, please keep writing. The wise cracks, the plot, and Kinky's Krazy Kast of Kharacters made that one a hoot - I loved every word. This edition still has the highly irreverent dialogue and nutsy group of irregulars but, still, there was something missing. The basic idea of the passports as McGuffen seemed way too unbelievable to catch and hold me. At any point, a more reasonable man would have collected them and dropped them on the desk of your local FBI agent. By being too clever in this one (and Kinky is very clever) he lost me and that's too bad. Still, I'll buy the next and next and next and read every one in the hope that Mr. Friedman hasn't run out of good ideas.

I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an advanced reading copy of MILE HIGH CLUB. Man, this was one of the best, if not the best book kinky has given his fans (I've read all of them at least two or three times). This book ROCKED!!! It was funny, introspective, and had a little bit of kinky's charm (crudeness) just for fun. All the Village Iregulars are here: Ratso, McGovern, Stephanie, and even Winnie. And of course Kinky's muse, the infamous Cat is all up in there, too.

If you like good looking terrorists, interesting, side splitting dialogue, and most of all just love kinky for all he is worth then this book is a must! I haven't lauged so hard while reading a book since SPANKING WATSON. This book blew me away! Read it, dig it!

This book is a great way to come into kinky's world and join us die hard Kink-o-philes!

So, in short, yeah, I'd recommend the book. Can't wait for the next installment! So light a cigar, pet a cat, drink some Jamesons, and have a great time!

Thanks kinstah!

Never mind that a qualified reader could guess the solution to the mystery 100 pages before Kinky could. Surely that would be annoying in a Christie, or a Hammett, or such; but, having greedily gobbled all but one of the man's works I feel qualified to say that, one doesn't read Kinky Friedman for the mystery, one reads Kinky for his reactions to the antagonistic "mystery." Funny thing is -- just when you are getting used to knowing what happens long before our befuddled hero does, the Kinkster springs MILE HIGH CLUB. The ending is such a delightful, the-butler-did-it that you expect the cat to finally say something ennuyne about it. The mystery to MHC is the perfect love-child of tie-dyed noirishness and paranoia for the new millennium.

With its Beat standpoint (or, rather, perspective, for surely no self-respecting bohemian would stand where they could recline) on terrorists vs. the State Dept. vs. every other major official power in the face of sexual adversity, MHC is Kinky's singular, grooviest, pageturningest, most cat-poo infected, seedy extravaganza yet. With great giggly hauter, I give this book two shots of Jameson's (up) and a complimentary crate of airline peanuts.

I thought this book was good because it was fun to read about Mary Anne's makeover, since that stuff always interests me. But the reason i gave it 3 stars was because it made me so mad! Her friends, who I always thought were so cool, were the biggest jerks alive! I mean, what kind of people would spread rumors about you and then be the biggest jerk alive to your face, just because THEY DIDN'T LIKE YOUR HAIR? Luckily, this is the only book I have ever read in this series where the BSC acts this immature for something so stupid. Mary Anne needs to get some new friends!

When I first read this book, back in junior high, I couldn't believe what jerks Dawn and the others were acting like toward poor Mary Anne. All Mary Anne does is get a haircut and a new wardrobe, and suddenly she's being attacked from all sides by the people she thought were her friends!

But read more closely -- aside from a few comments toward the beginning of the book, and some rudeness from Dawn, her friends really AREN'T mean -- it's all in Mary Anne's head. Her imagination and those initial comments lead her to believe everyone hates her new image, so she, in turn, avoids THEM. Then THEY feel hurt by that and don't speak to HER out of fear, so she thinks they hate her . . . and it all goes spiraling downhill.

I think the point this book is trying to make is that friendships can suffer and even dissolve if friends don't communicate the way they should. Mary Anne assumed too many things; instead of confronting her friends, she avoided them, and that led to chaos.

The sub plot of the book is pretty cool. One of the Arnold Twins, who loves 'Back to the Future', builds a time machine in the basement -- and honestly believes it will work.

I enjoyed this book a lot. It was so exciting reading about her trip to the mall when she got a new haircut, clothes and makeup. I expected her friends to love the change, but they didn't, not at first. But like every ann m martin story, it has a happy ending and they end up liking her new look.

Another stupid Saddle Club book! The early SC books and a few of the Supers are great, but mostly the SC books are real dumb! This one is hardly about horses or sidesaddle, and more about Stevie who is jealous that a new rider is stealing her boyfriend's attention with her sidesaddle talent and frilly sweaters and pink jodphurs!! It's more about Stevie getting mad and competing than about horses! This is one of the worst Saddle Club books ever!

This book was pretty good. Except I wish it told a little more about actually riding sidesaddle. It seemed as though the author didn't know much about the subject and therefore only included the bit about Stevie's 'improvised' way of riding aside. Usually when you read a saddle club book you learn a little bit of fun information about the different kinds of horsey things that they do. Also, what did it have to do with jumping sidesaddle? Stevie didn't even get up to a canter. Why did it say she tries to jump in the book summary? I don't think that Stevie was even competing with Tiffany, she was just competing with a different side of herself that she thought might work better for her. Although, it was okay-Read it for yourself!

THis book is one of my fav saddle club books it is about stevie being jelice about a girl that she think is sealing her boyfriend so steive will do any thing to get her BF back even if it means jumping side saddle!! :0 :)