Stop in the Name of Pants! (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson) | 
 enlarge | Author: Louise Rennison
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Time to gird the loins and pucker up. Blimey O'Reilly's trousers! Three maybe-boyfriends is a lot for any girl to handle—red-bottomed or not. What with Robbie the Sex God back from Kiwi-a-gogo land wanting to "get coffee" and whatsit, Masimo the Luuurve God saying things like "Ciao, Georgia, see you later" (the good see-you-later or the bad see-you-later??), and her mate Dave the Laugh snogging her in a pond, it's enough to make any girl mad. Good thing she has the ace gang to keep her sane. Ish. But now that she has tearfully eschewed Robbie the Sex God with a firm hand, Georgia is left with two potential snoggees to choose from, and it's high time she left the cakeshop of love for good. This time with a gorgey Italian cakey. Or a nip-libbling Dave the Tart. But certainly not both. Maybe.
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 Forced humorosity August 20, 2008
This is the ninth book in the series Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, so faithful readers know what they're getting. As for me, I haven't read the earlier books (which doesn't help), I'm 48 (the series is aimed at teens), and I'm familiar with Bridget Jones's Diary (I think the author is, too).
The humor seems forced, packed with British slang and silly wordplay. Luuurve for love, vair for very, adding -osity and -io to the end of words willy nilly. "I said in a casualosity at all times sort of way, `Ah well, I'm glad you asked me that. Because suspicionosity is the enemy of friendshipnosity."
It's all a little much, but then again I'm not the target for this book. Teenage girls might love it.
Here's the chapter list; there is no table of contents:
1. Deep in the forest of red bottomosity
2. Once more into the huffmobile
3. Turbulent washing machine of love
4. Viking hornpipes a-gogo
5. Big furry paw of fate
6. Why can't everyone just speak English?
7. Hark, what owl through yonder window breaks
8. Fisticuffs at dawn
9. Groove on, groovsters! (dance moves)
Glossary
 Read the whole series August 19, 2008
My family read the first book in Louise Rennison's Georgia Nicolson series while on a road trip. We take turns reading aloud, and with both kids and adults in the car, we figured a young adult book would be a good choice. We had to pull over to allow the driver to quit laughing and compose herself enough to get back on the road safely.
Rennison's combination of lighthearted adventure and teen perceptions of the world, written in a wonderfully characteristic style,is a pleasure for teens and adults. The memorable heroine, English schoolgirl Georgia, faces issues with school, friendships, boys, and family that most teens will relate to, though she makes them a lot funnier than usual. Her life with her parents, her little sister, her unusual cat, her clique of friends, and the boys and teachers who make that life more complicated, is a series of madcap episodes ranging from the ditherspaz-inducing to the fabbity fab fab.
The language is half the fun. If you can read this book without finding your conversation laced with little bits of Rennisonosity, you have more self-control than most of us.
In this latest book, Georgia deals -- or fails to deal -- with more complex issues than in the previous volumes. Georgia's self-centered cluelessness is occasionally pierced by some recognition of real concerns about her family, her troubles at school, and her relationships with boys. Not enough to spoil the fun, of course, but enough to make the reader eager to see what happens next.
There is a helpful glossary in the back of the book so that we in Hamburger-a-go-go-land can understand it.
Bridget Jones for the Tween Set August 19, 2008
Georgia Nicolson, the cynical, sarcastic, witty British teen, returns in "Stop in the Name of Pants," the latest book from Louise Rennison. Rennison writes in a stream-of-consciousness style, casting Georgia's story in the form of diary entries. Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's too scatter-brained, but it works well for readers with short attention spans.
Georgia deals with many of the issues that affect teens -- clueless parents, pesky little sister, fickle friends -- and some that most can only hope for, including having 3 boyfriends simultaneously, one of whom is a luuuurve god. (Note to American readers: the book is heavy on British slang, most of which is understandable from the context.)
Earlier books in the series, (especially "Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging") worked better than this one. The humor isn't as sharp in Georgia's latest outing, and much of the material is starting to feel familiar.
"Stop in the Name of Pants" is an entertaining, undemanding book, but readers other than long-time fans might find themselves disappointed.
If you like the series, you'll like this -- but don't start reading here. August 16, 2008
It's surprisingly hard to write a review for the ninth book in a series. You'd think it would be easy, or at least I did, but I was wrong. The bottom line is that if you have been reading and enjoying the series, you'll enjoy this book, too.
As parent of a teenage daughter, I have read (actually, listened to the "books on tape" versions) of a few of this series. Therefore, I had a pretty good idea of what was going on in this latest chapter of the Georgia Nicholson chronicles -- good thing, because otherwise, I would have been hopelessly lost. Fortunately, it has a glossary in the back, for those who are jumping into the series in episode 9, but it is woefully inadequate to cover all the necessary background and jargon/lingo of this series.
Having read the Harry Potter series, I was always -- hmmm, how to describe it -- tolerant of, patient with (?) all the repetitive descriptions that, I realized, were necessary if anyone was to pick up the series with, say, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", to provide the background information one would need to understand enough of the "current" (to that episode in the series) events. This book has FAR too little of that repetitive background for anyone to join late in the series. So, if you're tempted to buy this, go back and start at the beginning of the series, first.
That said, this is another wildly engaging episode in the chronicles/confessions of Georgia Nicholson, Teen Drama Queen Extraordinaire. The angst, self-centeredness, and over-importance of the moment that is typical of teenage-hood is captured perfectly in this book -- and perhaps that's made obvious by the number of "two minutes later" entries in this diary-style volume.
Nonetheless, this 40+ year-old dad finds himself adding "-iocity" and "a-gogo-land" on the end of otherwise ordinary words after reading this, and that can only testify to the inherent enjoyability-ocity of this book. The series is a "must-read", or at the very least, a "must-skim" for parents of tweens heading into that awful time of teenager-hood; and it would probably be enjoyed by most late-tween-to-early-teen girls.
Georgia is still funny, but alot of the same old, same old.... August 14, 2008
Georgia Nicolson is still hilarious. I love the slang Louise Rennison uses and the crazy antics of the Ace Gang. If you've read the previosu books, well then you just have to read this one! If you've never read them, start with "Angus, Thongs & Full Frontal Snogging". This series is laugh-out-loud funny.
But it does need to be mentioned that the series IS starting to drag a bit, and Georgia doesn't seem to grow or mature alot. Another thing about reading this, is you keep wondering WHY she has all these hot guys after her. Sure she is funny, but she is not a considerate, smart (or according to herself and her friends) that great looking (her face is all nostrils?!). But luckily, in this book we get to see Georgia show her sensitive/serious side for once. It was a break from the routine shallowness.
The ending was really good! It was one of those (almost cliffhanger) endings that makes you realize you are at the end of the book, and howl out "Noooooo!!!! I need to know what happens next!". I can't wait to read the next one! I really wish the books would come out faster than only 1 per year.
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