To think Stephen Wakefield was ... odd

[teaforbreakfast]

• he only ever dated high school girls.

• he used to comment about his mother and his sisters' beautiful figures

• did he have any friends at all?

Jog my memories as I remember finding him most peculiar even as a daft teen myself, but I can only remember the above as to why.

Who?

Who is he?

Never heard of him?

Who is he?

Sweet Valley High.

And erm ... you don't have to reply

Is this somebody you knew?

Oh, that's a bit niche.

Aah...I was more of a Sweet Dreams reader myself.

His weirdness was most apparent when he dated a girl who looked like his dead girlfriend - Tricia Martin, whose sister Betsy was the school bike, IIRC.

But we do have to reply... this is AIBU.

And YABVVU to suggest some invidious stuff and forget to tell us he is fictional

Haha I knew who you meant. Loved Sweet Valley High. Have you read the book that came out a few years ago about them as adults?

I vaguely remember that one, although all things considered he did move on from Tricia with indecent haste. With another high school girl

Soz Blanche

I thought you'd ALL KNOW! Work of incredible fiction, and all ...

Turned out to be gay didn't he? Affair with Aaron Dallas

Yep he was gay.

I mostly only read sweet valley twins.
In those the twins just hated him for existing, I think.

The recent Sweet Valley High book is RUBBISH. Rubbish, I tell you. So badly written.

I can remember the SVH characters so well. It's like they're seared into my memory. And the Spanish split-level house (what even is that?), the gold lavaliere necklaces, the Dairi Burger.

Yep. He was so in love with Jessica/Alice

...perfect size ten figures too, cao

Cao

As opposed to the great skill of earlier works

I haven't a clue what the Spanish split level house is either! But it was GOOD.

Don't forget Casey's Place and the pizza place which begins with a G and i can't remember it.

I love the bloggers that read them as adults and rip them apart.

I've just discovered it's Steven Wakefield, by the way.

Sorry, Steven.

I don't think I read those. I loved the Babysitters Club though.

Well, I mean, the originals weren't exactly Dostoevsky, but they had a certain something. At least they flowed relatively well in terms of narrative and characterisation. Kind of.

Looking back, they were pretty dire in terms of stereotypes. The "fat kid" (Lois Waller!), the bookish/hippy ones who wrote for the Oracle, the rich ones.

I always used to like Jessica more, but I was totally an Elizabeth.

Oh I clicked because I thought it was going to be an MMR thread

But that's Andrew Wakefield innit?