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Summary: I couldn't stop laughing!!!
Review: I got introduced to this book via Amazon.com. I read the excerpt they had from it and couldn't stop laughing! As you read 14 year old Georgia Nicolson's diary, you will laugh at the crazy things that she and her friends do, and what makes it even funnier is that it is written just like a real diary of a girl her age, and you can relate to everything that happens to her. If you are a girl ages 12+ you are sure to enjoy this book. Although it doesn't deal with worldy matters, it deals with common things that every girl goes through. I guarantee this is an un-putdownable, laugh a minute book!!!
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Summary: Fabbity-fab-fab!
Review: One reason why i bought this book was because of the title. who can resist a book with a title like this? and secondly cause it's really funny. I was stuck in Barnes and Nobles for 3 hours and i saw this book, started reading it and wouldn't shut up until my mom bought it for me :) I finished it in 2 days but man! what a couple of days. This book is funny. Georgia is the heroine who tells about her life. She has a 3 year old sister named Libby who is hmmm.... "mad" very embarrassing parents, and a Scottish Wildcat named Angus who is very mad. she tells us all about her big nose, her friends, her problems, and school. Since it is from England, the slang is different so luckily over here in a America, we got a dictionary and thank god for that. But, What does "how's your father" have to do with a guy's.... nah read it and see. ;) Anyways, if you are a guy like me don't bring this book to school or let girls see you with it!!! Some girls think i'm a sex-fiend for reading a Fictious girls diary (they didn't know she was fictious until i told them, but they still think i'ma sex-fiend) If you do bring it to school, control your laughter! Get this book- you'll enjoy it
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Summary: Oh so very grand indeed...
Review: This book is so funny. It is so much fun to read because of all the ridiculous things that happen to poor Georgia. If you liked princess diaries, this is simalar but 10 times as funny!
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS
Review: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging is an incredibly hilarious book. Louise Rennison is quite possibly a genius. Although it is not much like my life, i enjoyed the book very much, and especially liked it when she "snogged" The Sex God, aka Robbie. I also like Angus and his hunger for the nextdoor neighbours poodles. I could not put the book down, and when i read it in class i started laughing, but then everyone looks at you funny and asks what is so funny? so don't read it in pppublic, if you can help it. I give the book a 100 star rating if i could, but it only goes up to 5. I can't wait to read the next book!!!
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Summary: Ahh, to be young again....
Review: This book describes exactly what I went through at 14, well, except for moving to New Zealand. I love Rennison's humorous take on everything.. but I wouldn't let anyone under 13 read it. The book deals with sex, especially gay and lesbian jokes that younger readers probably would neither like nor understand. Throughout most of the book, I could not stop laughing, the eyebrow plucking, finding an apron in her father's sock drawer, regarding her crush as a "sex god" and referring to her mother and father in German nicknames "mutti" and "vatti," repectively. Regarding her parents' possible separation, Georgia is conflicted between which of the two she would rather live with. (If I go with mum, I'll have access to makeup and clothes, so long Vatti!) If you want a good read for spring break or summer vacation, "cheers," you just found it!
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Summary: just okay
Review: It just wasn't what I had imagined. Maybe there was too much hype about the book. I loved the title, but I really never felt close to Georgia. It was like I was watching from a birds-eye view, not walking in her shoes.I will read the sequel to see what it is like, but don't have high expectations. And I thought the cat was just thrown in there. Angus never melded into the story very well.
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Summary: Enormously fun but lacking in any sort of depth
Review: My first thought, after meandering halfway through this book, was "Sally J. Freedman: The Later Years". Anyone who has ever read that inimitable tome will know exactly what I mean. Although the book is endowed with a charming and at times laugh-out-loud hysterical wit, Georgia herself proves to be an ultimately materialistic, fairly shallow and overdramatic protagonist. It is hard to work up sympathy for her when her biggest woes are the size of her nose and the fact that her crush has a girlfriend. Her parents, although a tad unreasonable, do not deserve the disgust she gives them. One often feels the need to slap her friends, and occasionally her. Ultimately, this is a fun if not simple read. It can be knocked off in a few hours. Enjoy it, but do not expect anything out of it outside of a good laugh.
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Summary: BUY IT!!!
Review: I picked this book up just because I was bored, and I'm so glad I did! This book is hilarious, very real, and keeps you laughing all the way through. I can't wait for the sequel! If you don't have it yet, take some time to get this 5 star book!
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Summary: Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Fun (Snogging)
Review: I think that Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging was a great book.It was really funny and I enjoyed the odd English vocabulary. It was weird though, I could sometimes not understand what was happening unless I was constantly flipping pages to look-up different words. It was exciting and I would recommend it to any teenage girl interested in how foriegn teens think, and how they are still in the same type of situations as we american teens.
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Summary: Mindless and Demeaning
Review: Wanted! Young girls who only think they are worth something if some boy says so. If you fit this category, this book will be perfect because it is filled with example after boring example of a teen who refuses to think about what she can do by herself. It is also filled with plenty of homophobic remarks which help to reinforce the "humor" and add to the message that brains are an unnecessary luxury. Read this book and bask in a world where body image is completely controlled by men and the very most important thing that can happen to a young girl is to have boys ogle her. What a waste of time. How sad that this book won a Printz award when there are so many great books that feature bright young teen women.
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