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4.3 54
Young Adult Fiction
279
Way Unamerican
Overall rating
4.0
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Reader reviewed by marsandneptune5
I'd like to
begin by explaining a few things, since the only word in the book's
title that's readily clear to Americans is "thong." Angus is a cat,
Georgia's to be exact, but he's not any ordinary cat. One wouldn't
expect a cat of his mixed domestic/Scottish wildcat heritage to be
ordinary. He's exceedingly large, temperamental, or just plain mental
depending how you look at it. Angus intimidates dogs and Angus eats
leads (that's leash in American) on a regular basis. Angus is a killing
machine much feared by the wildlife of Georgia's neighborhood, the
rodents especially. The second thing I'd like to explain is snogging. If
you managed to miss Austin Powers you are most likely confused. A snog
is a kiss, and not of the chaste sort. One doesn't snog one's gran
(grandmother) unless one is very, very strange. Now that I've explained
the unfamiliar terms, let's move on.
Georgia leads a very ordinary English teenage life: an all girls high
school , uniforms with about fifty different
skirt lengths, sneaking off to Boots (a drug store) during double free
periods with her friends... Georgia is more interested in boys,
meeting them, attracting them,and potentially snogging them if she can ever
figure out what to do with her arms , than she is in the mysteries of
physics or Frog (French). At 14 she sometimes thinks she's the only
girl in the world without the very necessary appendage called the
boyfriend, even though she knows this isn't true when she looks at her
friends.
Georgia lives at the edge of love and mortification
when she's with her family, so she tries to ignore them as much as
possible. She's so successful at this that she nearly doesn't notice
when her father leaves for New Zealand to look for a job. New Zealand is
so far away it takes nearly two days by plane to get there. Is it any
wonder then that Georgia's mum begins to flirt just a little with the
builder (construction worker) who seems to taking forever to refit the
lounge (living room)? If this sounds a bit like a soap, it should, but
it's a soap driven by humor rather than the pathos.
ANGUS, THONGS AND FULL FRONTAL SNOGGING is funny enough to make the most sad looking guy laugh out loud. This is a book to share
with friends since they'll all want to know what a "tosser" is (no, I'm
not going to tell you). Georgia is Everyday girl taken to the extreme, her
antics will make anything you've ever done when looking for that special
guy seem staid, reasonable, or even worse, completely normal. Rennison
provides at least one joke per page so that the action moves at a quick
pace, and after reading it you might even come to realize that England
is more than Masterpiece Theatre and Blur.Once you start reading, you'll feel like an everyday girl in england!
I'd like to
begin by explaining a few things, since the only word in the book's
title that's readily clear to Americans is "thong." Angus is a cat,
Georgia's to be exact, but he's not any ordinary cat. One wouldn't
expect a cat of his mixed domestic/Scottish wildcat heritage to be
ordinary. He's exceedingly large, temperamental, or just plain mental
depending how you look at it. Angus intimidates dogs and Angus eats
leads (that's leash in American) on a regular basis. Angus is a killing
machine much feared by the wildlife of Georgia's neighborhood, the
rodents especially. The second thing I'd like to explain is snogging. If
you managed to miss Austin Powers you are most likely confused. A snog
is a kiss, and not of the chaste sort. One doesn't snog one's gran
(grandmother) unless one is very, very strange. Now that I've explained
the unfamiliar terms, let's move on.
Georgia leads a very ordinary English teenage life: an all girls high
school , uniforms with about fifty different
skirt lengths, sneaking off to Boots (a drug store) during double free
periods with her friends... Georgia is more interested in boys,
meeting them, attracting them,and potentially snogging them if she can ever
figure out what to do with her arms , than she is in the mysteries of
physics or Frog (French). At 14 she sometimes thinks she's the only
girl in the world without the very necessary appendage called the
boyfriend, even though she knows this isn't true when she looks at her
friends.
Georgia lives at the edge of love and mortification
when she's with her family, so she tries to ignore them as much as
possible. She's so successful at this that she nearly doesn't notice
when her father leaves for New Zealand to look for a job. New Zealand is
so far away it takes nearly two days by plane to get there. Is it any
wonder then that Georgia's mum begins to flirt just a little with the
builder (construction worker) who seems to taking forever to refit the
lounge (living room)? If this sounds a bit like a soap, it should, but
it's a soap driven by humor rather than the pathos.
ANGUS, THONGS AND FULL FRONTAL SNOGGING is funny enough to make the most sad looking guy laugh out loud. This is a book to share
with friends since they'll all want to know what a "tosser" is (no, I'm
not going to tell you). Georgia is Everyday girl taken to the extreme, her
antics will make anything you've ever done when looking for that special
guy seem staid, reasonable, or even worse, completely normal. Rennison
provides at least one joke per page so that the action moves at a quick
pace, and after reading it you might even come to realize that England
is more than Masterpiece Theatre and Blur.Once you start reading, you'll feel like an everyday girl in england!
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