Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging - Louise Rennier

[locke]

So we need a book, and it's banned book week.

The poll is over, and the victor is Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennier

iirc, the movie (a nickelodeon production) has come out or is about to come out in the UK, and due to the prudish ridiculousness of americans, has been changed from full-frontal snogging to perfect snogging.

fwiw, looking up this book on amazon, the rest of the series apparently also all have pretty awesome titles. :p


edited original post and poll closed (I didn't want to make two topics)
I've never read the Chocolate War, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, The Satanic Verses, or Slaughterhouse Five, or Angus Thongs and full Frontal Snogging so those are our options. I pulled them off the banned book list.

[Derwyddon]

Bummer, I actually wasn't very interested in this one. I'll still read it though!

[Gravity Defier]

I put it on hold. A copy was due in yesterday but wasn't returned, so we'll see when I can get my hands on it.

[Young Val]

Where have I been?


Poll?


I know I've been a slacker, but I'm so confused!

[locke]

I closed the poll after a majority was made. because I was trying to get a choice in time for banned books week. then barnes and noble didn't have this book (though they had like the other seven in the series) so I haven't got to read it yet, otherwise I'd have made another post.

[Gravity Defier]

I finished this book yesterday, or what technically was two days ago. I read somewhere, maybe on the book jacket itself, that this book would have a Bridget Jones' Diary feel to it. Now, I'll admit, I've never read that but -don't judge- I've seen the movie. As much as it is possible for me to draw a comparison between a movie and a book that aren't even directly related, I'd say that was an accurate description.

Not to say this book felt adult at all; it's very openly adolescent in nature. Besides the similar presentation (main character's diary), it reminded me of BJsD because you get to experience all the petty, nasty, vulnerable, personal moments that most people just don't put out there for the world to see. And it was done in a charming and humorous way, so I never hated her or grew annoyed with her even when she did stupid and annoying things.

On some level, I identified with Georgia, which is strange because her experience at 14 couldn't be more different than mine in almost every way imaginable. While she was whining and fearful about never getting a boyfriend, there was quite a bit of attention aimed right at her. Not so for me when I was 14 (or even now). She is comfortable with being the girly-girl and while I don't exactly dislike being a girl (most of the month), I certainly don't embrace all the trappings of it, i.e. clothes, makeup. Where we're similar? Just ask my mom how many times I've complained about how big my nose is.

Also, darn you Brits for having different slang. Having to flip back to the glossary to understand some of the terms did ruin the flow of the story.

I liked it, am glad I read it, and have put the second one on reserve.

[locke]

twice now, the one book store I've been in since we selected this has had the entire series except the first one. This is what I get for going into a Barnes and Noble instead of Borders. :nods:

[locke]

picked this up yesterday, read through august. strange, but quite appealing and very readable. teenage girls are a strange species, I'm thinking perhaps I was a bit lucky to avoid them so thoroughly when I was a teenage boy, but I'm not sure. the eyebrow bit was quite funny.

[locke]

I finally went back and read the rest of this despite it having been with me on all the traveling I've done since my last post and by my bed I still hadn't gotten to it.

Which is a shame because it is such a very fun and easy-going fast read. I finished it in probably an hour and half maybe two hours. The main character for all that she could easily be pretty annoying and blech actually comes across as really sweet and charming, full of amusing insecurities we can all find relatable, I think. she seemed sort of naive about a lot in the sexual department for someone at fourteen in the modern world, but this is a young adult book, so I suppose some willful ignorance on the part of the author seems appropriate and necessary. On the other hand, all her obsessing about what the hand above/on the front of her breast meant I found incredibly amusing from a guy's point of view, I knew exactly what it meant and probably would have at fourteen for all that I never would have been bold enough to make an inquiry-ish move/probe like that. It quite reminded me of the Beverly Cleary books actually, not the Ramona ones, so much, but the Henry and Beezus books, or maybe Flubber.

In all pretty good, I don't think I'll read the rest of the series but I'll probably mail it to my younger sister.

[Peterlover14]

I thought the movie was adorable. I'm sure it's in my school library, I migth have to check it out.

[Graff^]

Really I thought it was a poorly scripted film. I mean really shaving your eyebrows with a razor? Come on people!

[Peterlover14]

You can't say you didn't love the soundtrack though! I mean, all the songs they played were awesome.

[Graff^]

I guess so.. they were......okay.

[Peterlover14]

You need to watch it again.

[Graff^]

OK, but only because you told me too. I still stick by my opinon though.

[Peterlover14]

Stubborn, eh?

[Jayelle]

Stop this, you two.

[Peterlover14]

Sorry, Jayelle.

[Graff^]

Yea sorry I can't help it I'm a terribly stubborn person.[/b]

[Gravity Defier]

Really I thought it was a poorly scripted film. I mean really shaving your eyebrows with a razor? Come on people!

The movie did what so few book->film's do: it strayed/changed in small, appropriate ways but still captured the spirit of the book so well, it didn't feel changed. By far one of the best adaptations I've seen. So while I don't remember if she did shave her eyebrow off in the book (think she did), it wasn't out of character to have it in the movie.