Angus, Thongs, and Perfect WHAT?!

                                        MEDIA MONDAY! 
                       (let's just pretend it's Monday, okay?)

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This past summer, I was on amazon.com, looking for some good books to read. I stumbled upon "Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging" by Louise Rennison. Needless to say, I had no idea what "snogging" was (now I know, it's making out), but I had heard of the movie and wanted to see what the book was like. So, I clicked on the "LOOK INSIDE" preview and I thought it was ridiculously funny (in a good way). I grabbed a friend and we found the entire movie online (Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging) ... and the following are my opinions on what I watched. Keep reading.

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Love Tips from Georgia

Meet Georgia Nicolson. She's a girl in the UK who fulfills every cliche and every stereotype, concerning teen angst. Her parents annoy her. She thinks she's pretty ugly. She has a love-hate kind of relationship with her best friend and the rest of her family. Her cat, Angus, doesn't behave. She hasn't developed into a woman's bra yet ... need I go on?

My main problems with this movie/book are the following:

1. Georgia and her friends OBSESS over boys. They go farther than the examples in my articles, How Not To Obsess (click ME) and Consumed (right HERE). They downright lust over them and these girls are only 14 years old.

2. Georgia and her friends GO OUT OF THEIR WAY to get with boys. She pretends to lose her cat so a guy will help her find it, she makes out with someone she's not into just for practice, and does a lot of other deplorable things. She's whiny and pushy and must get her way. It's really hard to watch, knowing what I know, after blogging for this long.

3. Georgia has NO redeeming qualities. Zip. None. Zero. Zilch. She is a very hard protagonist to like. I know that we're all flawed, but come on!

4. Georgia still gets the guy. HOW ON EARTH does that happen? Well, it's fiction. Or the guy is not concerned with hard-working, honest, individuals who want the best in life. That's how.

Honestly, my friend I could barely make it through the movie. We were rooting against Georgia the whole time.

What do you think of the movie, the book, or my review?

I think Louise Rennison is a good writer. She can really make me laugh out loud. And yet ... For certain, I will not be reading the next book in the line of 10, atrociously entitled:

 "On The Bright Side, I'm Now The Girlfriend of a Sex God." 

No, thank you.

Love,

Zabrinah