Law School Discussion

anybody remember the Sideways Stories from Wayside School series? And there was this one book about a phantom school bus or something - loved it, can't remember the name if it - Summer of My German Soldier made me cry. There were SOOOO many books. Man, those were the serious days! Kids today come home and mess around on the internet - lots of us came home and straight up read. In hindsight I was nothing but a big geek begging for those books all the time. Time a new BSC book hit the shelf I bought it. I think there was a board game too and I got all of those movies (not the major ones, but the smaller ones that came out before the major one.)

Man did I love those . . . did you have Sideways Math from Wayside School?  I attribute any success I had in Logic Games directly to that book.

I got 10 books a week, every Saturday, and then I'd finish them by Tuesday, and read them all again before the next Saturday rolled around - I once got grounded from reading for three days because I was sneaking and staying up way past my bedtime to read more.  Longest three days of my life, I swear.  And those Scholastic book catalogues at school?  Forget it, I always had this huge stack.  Huge nerd.  Huge.

Quote from: Gengiswump on December 22, 2006, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: One Step Ahead on December 22, 2006, 05:40:22 PM

oh wow Sweet Valley high?    Say it ain't so!   

edit: come on, you could have at least done babysitter's club   

Oh, I did Babysitter's Club.  And Saddle Club.  And Encyclopedia Brown.  And Boxcar Kids.  And pretty much anything else I could get my hands on.  I was a bit of a reader.

Hmm.  I did Sidney Milhone mysteries.

No wonder why I'm so screwed up.

Charles deLint for me . . . we're all screwed up.

Quote from: Gengiswump on December 22, 2006, 05:43:24 PM

Quote from: One Step Ahead on December 22, 2006, 05:40:22 PM

oh wow Sweet Valley high?    Say it ain't so!   

edit: come on, you could have at least done babysitter's club   

Oh, I did Babysitter's Club.  And Saddle Club.  And Encyclopedia Brown.  And Boxcar Kids.  And pretty much anything else I could get my hands on.  I was a bit of a reader.

thats it, your card is gone!     I read the others on your list though.  Encyclopedia was the best.  Did you also do Nancy Drew?  Man this brings back so many memories.

Wait a sec, that was the only one where a black girl was actually a main character!  Stop hatin'!

Yes to Nancy Drew, but not a ton.  I also like to get sort of 80's vintage trashy teen lit like . . . girltalk or Charisma (that was a detective series as well).  Did anyone read the Berenstein Bears Chapter Books . . . Brother and Sister in middle school with boyfriends and girlfriends and what not?

I swear there was worthwhile literature interspersed throughout all of this . . . 

Quote from: jarhead on December 22, 2006, 04:58:18 PM

my ghetto pass is about to be ripped burned and spread across the potomac...any body heard of a book called "a seperate peace?" it's one of my favorites

I never had a ghetto pass, but that was one of my favorite books as a tweener.  That, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Bridge to Terabithia. 

I loooooved that book, it made me weep openly every time.  I also was really into The Giver and anything buy Paula Danziger.

But my ghetto pass revocation probably came with my obsession with Sweet Valley Twins (and High, and Kids) . . . I think they had, maybe, one black friend? 

Quote from: cui bono? on December 22, 2006, 01:43:08 PM

Third one was horrible!!!  Made no sense to me back in the day.

BTW, looks like we are all losing our ghetto passes.   Thought I was the only one.   

EDIT: my fav would have to be Anne of Avonlea 

whatcutalkinbout?  Anne was mad gangsta with her ish. 

Yeah, uhhh, puffed sleeves are, errr, dope.