Dren5 said:

Good Lord, I've never heard of the "Sweet Dreams" books, either; wtf?

Dren5 said:

Deadcake said:

Dren5 said:

Good Lord, I've never heard of the "Sweet Dreams" books, either; wtf?

You're just too young for them I'm sure

I was born in 1981 so not *that* young...

Dren5 said:

Deadcake said:

Dren5 said:

I was born in 1981 so not *that* young...

We were reading them in 83-86

Okay, yeah - at that point I was still on "Choose Your Adventure" books and starting to sniff around my mom's textbooks.

I don't think I remember those books. I have to think back

I was under 3 during Sweet Dreams so had no idea, but I knew about Degrassi books which were in the school library in the 90's and read several of them during middle school.

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I effing LOVED the Baby-Sitters Club books!

Did you guys hear about how they're re-releasing the series but with updates to appeal to kids of this generation?

http://jezebel.com/5437916/scholastics-great-idea--updating-the-baby+sitters-club

"Editors at Scholastic updated some of the references to technology and outdated fashions in the reissued books. So a "cassette player" has become "headphones" and a "perm" has become "an expensive hairstyle."

They're going to include cell phones and texting and ipods, etc too.

i read my brother's hand me down books, so no sweet valley for me. the hardy boys, doc savage, conan the barbarian, yessirree!

OMG guys u r taking me back w/these books.... I read all sweet valley high books and Rl stine fear street books too.

Ugh yeah I heard about the updates. The Rainbow Brite references will be taken out. I wonder if other 80's and 90's ones will be too. The older ones from the 50's through 70's might be too Like Abby being an Aretha fan, references to older movies like My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Gone With The Wind.

And that Island Adventure Super Special was a good one.

alphastreet said:

Ugh yeah I heard about the updates. The Rainbow Brite references will be taken out. I wonder if other 80's and 90's ones will be too. The older ones from the 50's through 70's might be too Like Abby being an Aretha fan, references to older movies like My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Gone With The Wind.

And that Island Adventure Super Special was a good one.

You'd think it would have occurred to them from the beginning that it's just a fucking stupid idea to do that - it can't be cost-effective to blow all this extra money just to go back through every book and swap out every last one of those terms. And what for? It's not like the books are somehow unreadable to the newer generations if you leave them intact, and I doubt some kid is going to be in mid-book and suddenly decide they're not interested anymore just because it mentions a cassette player instead of an iPod.

You'd think they'd have to get the author's permission to do that kind of thing too. If I were her, I'd say no.

They are trying to do what was done with the original Nancy Drews not so long ago. And Ann M. Martin was a big Nancy Drew fan, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if they went through with it. But they also went through all the series and gave them different and childish cartoon covers when the originals were fine the way they were, mini adults and all

alphastreet said:

They are trying to do what was done with the original Nancy Drews not so long ago. And Ann M. Martin was a big Nancy Drew fan, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if they went through with it. But they also went through all the series and gave them different and childish cartoon covers when the originals were fine the way they were, mini adults and all

She might be a purist about that kind of thing though and be pissed that they did it to the Nancy Drew books and refuse to let them tamper with her shit, you never know. At least I hope that's what her reaction ultimately is.

Well it's probably a good idea for folks to start buying up as many of the old ones as they can find, NOW. Because when they start rolling out the new ones, that's it...

Good thing I have many of my old ones, though I lost many too. I have a manga of the first book in the series that was printed a few years ago, I thought that was cute and the script didn't change at all. They only did it for the first few though.