Yes!! I, too, was a huge Sweet Valley High fan as a youngin' and I also read Hangin' Out With Cici (later, though, after the Afterschool Special had been made and seen). Ditto on what happened to my copies of the books (I think we donated mine to the library or a thriftstore), but I wish I had them, too. For nostalgia, I guess, more than anything. There was one Christmas when I was a kid that my mom bought me almost every book in the series, because she was just so excited that I had gotten into reading so much. She bought me those and some other books, but I still remember the feeling of that and I think that's a big part of why I wish I still had them.
I thought that the books Francine actually wrote (rather than those she created, re: SVH) were much more well-written, too, but I think you nailed it. The reason that SVH was so popular, even among the kids who were not actual bookworms, was because they were just about happy, beautiful people that everything worked out for. Even when Regina died (that was her name, right?) it made Bruce seem more human, so everything had a freakin' bright side! *l* Ah, to be young...and to be a Wakefield twin! ;-)
(I read the Bust article, too! Wasn't that great?!).
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Date: 2005-11-29 02:08 pm (UTC)I thought that the books Francine actually wrote (rather than those she created, re: SVH) were much more well-written, too, but I think you nailed it. The reason that SVH was so popular, even among the kids who were not actual bookworms, was because they were just about happy, beautiful people that everything worked out for. Even when Regina died (that was her name, right?) it made Bruce seem more human, so everything had a freakin' bright side! *l* Ah, to be young...and to be a Wakefield twin! ;-)
(I read the Bust article, too! Wasn't that great?!).
Louise~