Comments on: White Lies: If Book Covers Could Talk

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:18:43 +0000

jennifer = Christine Taylor? from Dodgeball and Hey Dude?

By: bubblebobblegirl

bubblebobblegirl — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:52:50 +0000

OMG you have a new fan.

I just love your blog. I was o.b.s.e.s.s.e.d. with SVH, SVT and SVU growing up..

This is hillarious.

I just love the token characters they throw on the covers, never to be heard from again. The only reason they exist is for some variety so we don’t get completely bored with those blue eyes, the color of the Pacific ocean.

By: noonelikeslois

noonelikeslois — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:14:09 +0000

omg im so glad your back!!!! reading your blog is one of my favourite ways to procrastinate!!! thanks so much – sweety valley played with my head a bit when i was a kid and now its fucking awesome to read your recaps that hang shit all over how unrealistic and idiotic the whole thing was.
(all my svh books ‘accidently’ ended up in the bin a few years ago and since i read your blog ive been kicking myself cos id love to re-read them just for hell of it with a fresh perspective.)

on a side note: isnt jennifer also a victim of john’s almost-rape attempts? or did she actually get raped? i never actually read it but i heard all about it in one of the twins diaries. im pretty sure it was a jennifer anyway….

By: Magpie

Magpie — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:21:11 +0000

Actually, I was thinking of it more from the perspective of the other people. As in, why the hell would anybody give Liz so much information about their lives, when it’s obvious that she is just salivating at the thought of a good case study? Why does nobody ever tell her to butt the hell out of their business? But that was an A+ psychological profiling of Liz that you did.

By: gnatalby

gnatalby — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:29:14 +0000

The fashions on this cover hold up decently. Jennifer looks like she has a sort of mandarin collar which is kind of interesting and John is pretty hot, and no one’s hair is egregious.

It seems like a bit of a continuity fail if we’re supposed to be happy for jennifer but john subsequently turns into a rapist, but somehow that doesn’t shock me.

By: Katie

Katie — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:53:02 +0000

hAHA I havent read this book yet, but your re caps are hilarious.
I havent heard of Jennifer before, did she only appear on this cover? Damn Liz and her meddling. I totally thought that was her on the cover. The blondes look alike…in my opinion anyways.

John looks like someone I know….

By: Mrs Dallas

Mrs Dallas — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:20:32 +0000

You’re back you’re back! I’ve had to actually WORK these past couple of weeks at my desk! It’s been awful!

By: Bart_Templeton

Bart_Templeton — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:35:33 +0000

You never learn, do you, Magpie?

Liz 101: needy semi-strangers is her porn.

You know how some people role-play in the bedroom? The pleasure comes from the role; from pretending that your Joe Schmo husband of 15 years is a hot masked cat burglar who forces you to shine his boots. If Joe slips out of his role and familiarity ensues, the rush crashes and burns.

Same thing here with Elizabeth and her human projects.

As soon as these people are “cured” (by her), the buzz dies.

The project, now a fait accompli, loses its luster.

And it’s off to the halls of SVH to find the next French maid’s outfit or pair of handcuffs –er, troubled classmate.

That’s why the only minor characters to recur are ones with ongoing problems. Like Pfeifer. Once he was a rapist, the editors were free to villainize him further in later books and give Liz more troubled behavior to stew about. But a “fixed” loser holds no appeal for Elizabeth’s insatiable appetite for do-gooder aphrodisiacs.

By: Magpie

Magpie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:39:57 +0000

Welcome back! I always miss your posts when you go away.

Ugh, this book was duller than dull. Jennifer and John were two of the more boring extras, until John turned into a rapist and went all psycho in the fire trilogy. I totally agree with Laura above that it was annoying when the SVH writers tried to make us care about these random characters, only to resolve their life story in the space of a book and then discard them entirely. I love how Liz is supposed to be a close friend to all these random students, but she never talks to them outside of their one designated book.

By: Lauri

Lauri — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:39:43 +0000

Seriously, John was Clark Kent right up until he took Lila to Miller’s Point and then he became an obsessed raping arsonist instead of Superman.