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Including Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging; are These My Basoomas?; Dancing in My Nuddy-pants; it's Ok I'm Wearing Really Big Knickers; Knocked Out by My Nunga
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Louise Rennison

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Louise Rennison was the bestselling award-winning author of the phenomenally successful ‘Confessions of Georgia Nicolson’ series, translated into over 34 languages and to the stage and big screen as ‘Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging’. She has won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize, the Michael L. Printz Honor Book and the Roald Dahl Funny prize for ‘Withering Tights’. Louise sadly died on February 29, 2016.

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46 reviews5 followers
December 4, 2014
these are like my favourite books...EVER!!!! i have so been able to relate to these books over my years of reading them...about 4 times each! every time i have a boy trouble, all i can think of is what georgia nicolson would do!!
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517 reviews
January 3, 2018
This series is pretty frustrating to read through. Not because it's bad but because there's SO, SO, SO much potential at the beginning. The first four books are great and hilarious, and I found myself immediately trying to plan buying them because I loved them so much. The the last few books happened, and as much as I liked the first few I couldn't continue to rate the books as highly because it seemed like Georgia was stuck in a rut.

Reading this series was like watching Ron White's comedy specials for me (I know it's weird, but as Tilly would say 'bear with'): The first one is hilarious and you wanna watch it over and over again and see the rest of them. Then the next one comes out and it's pretty much all the same jokes with maybe one or two new bits thrown in. By the time the third comes out, you know what's gonna happen by heart but are still hoping against hope he's put in more new bits than old.

I should mention that, although humorous situations continue throughout the series, the last four books stop being laugh-out-loud funny. Not for lack of trying on Rennison's part, but because all the ridiculous situations and jokes are ... old. They were done better the first time in the series.

I found myself mostly frustrated with Georgia's choice in boys and how she refused to see reason with regards to them. Her main two guys in the series were Robbie (The Sex God) and Masimo (The Love God), and although I understand why she was so interested in them because who among us hasn't seen a hot person and immediately imagined yourself with them? But I felt like, whether intentionally or not, this series also served as a cautionary tale about dating that person because in both of her major relationships, it's very clear Georgia actually has no idea who her beau really is.

It's made painfully clear in the case of Masimo, whom Georgia can barely communicate with because his English isn't very good and a lot of times with Masimo she can barely joke with friends because he doesn't understand her jokes. Masimo actually attempts to start a fight with Dave the Laugh because he dances with Georgia, Sven, and Rosie at a gig.

I also found it odd Masimo became such a clingy boyfriend. When he was first met in book five or six, he was so unattached to Georgia or Wet Lindsay he refused to commit himself to one of the other, in fact, when Georgia gave him an ultimatum, he pushed her away for an entire book before deciding to date only her (and even then, for added drama, Robbie came back and declared he still wanted to be with Georgia). My point is that it was an odd type of character growth (though in this case I'd call it regression).

In the 10th book, when Georgia began asking her friends who they thought she should be with, they all pointed out that she should get together with Dave the Laugh because she and Masimo barely understood each other. Even when we saw their interactions in books, it was confusing as to why, beyond looks, they were together: She would attempt to tell him about her life but he would become confused about her usage of language, he would just laugh and then start kissing her, and Georgia would think, "wow, this is what a real relationship is!"

Robbie was slightly better than Masimo, if only because it seemed like he genuinely cared about Georgia and her feelings, even if it just seemed like Georgia only cared about being with him because of his looks. (Nearly every time Georgia is attracted to another guy, she basically begins dating him right away without getting to know him.) In the third book (I think), Robbie leaves to go to Australia because he's taken an interest in wildlife, and Georgia is caught completely off guard. While in Australia, Robbie writes her letters all the time, but Georgia only responds once, when she decides she wants to date Masimo over Robbie, and Robbie comes back before he gets the letter.

At least Robbie's personality / character was consistent though, and he was upset when Georgia broke up with him. He still tried to talk her after they'd broken up.

As much as I'd like to devote some review space to Dave the Laugh, I can't. Rennison, for some reason, decided to keep them apart, and Georgia in denial about how well they worked together, until three pages from the end of the 10th book. I wish I was kidding about that too, but every time Georgia thinks she might like Dave, she immediately pushes the idea away and repeatedly states she only sees him as a friend, even if she is jealous of him being with another girl.

Georgia's character is another frustrating point. Honestly, I wasn't bothered by the lack of growth in the first few books because she was 15 and, to be honest, teenagers are bratty and immature. But then things began happening in the series that should've elicited character growth and didn't. Angus gets hit by a car and it looks like he'll die; Georgia's parents realize their marriage is in trouble and her dad leaves off for a few days; both her love interests repeatedly tell her they believe she's too young. But somehow, in-universe, these events are treated as minor annoyances.

Georgia's upset and crying and secludes herself for a few days when Angus is undergoing surgery. She turns to prayer (not seriously though), she attempts to make deals with God about being a better friend to Jas. Dave comes to visit her and Angus constantly (yet she still doesn't get that she and him work well). Angus miraculously recovers, is right as rain, and Georgia acts like it never happened. I could almost buy it since it's supremely hard dealing with loss or near-loss, but Georgia shows no sign of even acting like it happened later in the series.

Her parents have problems? Georgia acts like they're behaving like children. She doesn't worry about them splitting, even when her mother keeps trying to pull her aside and talk to her about the problems. When her mother keeps trying to get some one-on-one time with Georgia. Georgia simply plots how to get money to go to Italy to visit Masimo and how to best write about her father in her memoirs.

The love interests telling her she's immature? This I actually expected to make her change a bit, I mean, her love life is the most important thing in the world to her. Robbie says it to her and attempts to breaks up with her so she dates Dave to make him jealous and shows up wherever he is to get him back. I believe, during a hockey match, Wet Lindsay basically breaks Georgia's leg by hitting her with the stick (HOW was she not suspended or had her prefect / head girl status taken away after assaulting Georgia though?) and Robbie realizes that Lindsay is the immature one and Georgia is the best choice for him. What?

With Masimo it's slightly worse. He attempts to start a fight with Dave at the end of the ninth book and then rudely brushes off Georgia when she tries to speak to him afterwards. He stops by her house early in the 10th book with a note saying that he believes she's too immature (he tried to start a fight because Georgia was dancing with friends!) and that he's placing her on probation in a sense (I didn't even like Masimo but what was this character development?) to see if she's mature enough. Needless to say, they get back together, for a time ofc, while Georgia hasn't really made any change to herself, she's only told her friends that she needs to come off as mature when Masimo's around.

So, like I said, there's SO much potential here, but the series falls into a rut in the midpoint and stays there until... let's say three pages from the end of the 10th volume. When Georgia finally realizes that Dave the Laugh and her would be good together. Alas, with both that being the end of the series and Rennison's passing, that's all we'll ever see of the series' return to form.
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53 reviews
April 28, 2023
Don’t mind me just re-read the greatest series to exist
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17 reviews
January 23, 2019
Hugely funny books. Aimed at the young adult market, these books should not be overlooked by so-called adults. My partner and I laughed a lot at the audio versions and we are definitely not teenaged girls!
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June 23, 2020
FUNNY, EXTRAVAGANT, DAYDREAMING GEORGIA

"Shut up, brain. You haven't joined so far, don't start now."

"Anyway, where was I before I so rudely interrupted myself?"

No sooner had I been done with my exams than I decided to catch up with one of the series I had always wanted to read, the one composed of the "fabbity fab" diaries of Georgia Nicolson. I had grown fond of her during my preteen years by reading books no. 7, 9 and 10 - which I've already reviewed here, in Italian: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... I didn't have neither a computer nor a proficiency in English by then, so I couldn't complete the series. Along with more time on my hands, these two resources allowed me to do that now.
I didn't like all the books in the same way: my favorite ones were no. 1, 9 and 10 because they were funnier and also crucial to Georgia's happy ending, as I have already stated in the aforementioned review. In particular, I loved her dialogues with Jas, her unconventional father (Georgia's depiction of him had me in stitches!), the super cute Libby, the mischievous Angus, the exhilarating scenes with the professors of Stalag 14.
I obviously went mad for the love triangle (or square?) as well. Love rivals, up and downs, "See you later"s, snoggings and phone dates: Louise Rennison offered an extremely truthful (even if exaggerated and thus hilarious) portrait of teenagers' fickleness and their tendency to daydream.
But what really made me laugh out loud were Georgia's neologisms. With nunga-nungas, nuddy-pants, red bottomosity, clownmobile, Pizza-a-gogo land and so on, this extravagant fifteen-years-old girl brought me back to a time when everyone of us saw the world through rose-tinted spectacles, renaming its features according to our personal view of it. What a nostalgia!
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205 reviews
February 26, 2019
I've read these many, many times now. I'm technically too old for them and I've managed to finish all ten in nine days, beating my previous record of ten days. But I like having a bit of lighthearted easy reading for a change. There's humour (although you can tell they've been around a while now and unfortunately make many, then innocent, references to a now disgraced celebrity). There's nothing seriously grim and depressing. Which is the point in reading them. Everything in the world is so grim and depressing that it makes a change.
27 reviews
January 12, 2021
i got hole book set when i was begin of early teenage when i was bored i read these, was not field i just read i was bored or waiting for next harry potter book was out i was problem just a teenage or i was not excited i got from reading harry potter or Darren Shan was lot later teenage near the end when i read 5 harry potters books.

read to entertain myself i was bored, they were ok. if sister did not have reading issue these would be the book would joyed as child she avoid books to hide that had issue.

their good. they were not for me.
20 reviews
December 14, 2018
These books where my everything as a teen. I read them when I had nightmares and when I was in a good mood, I carried them in my backpack and confused people with goergias vocabulary. I just loved how wild and stubborn and weird goergias was for like no reason. If she found a way to be a. Complete loon, she would do it no questions asked.
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February 28, 2019
This is a great series! Keeps you interested, laughing like a hyena, and on the edge of your seat the whole time! Love it!
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144 reviews6 followers
March 21, 2024
I forgot I read this whole series as a teen. Seriously so funny!!
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113 reviews1 follower
January 17, 2022
this series was the playlist to my entire teenage experience I will never stop recommending this series. it was so funny and such a good escape mechanism when my mental health was at its lowest and living vicariously through Georgia helped me through a lot.
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209 reviews7 followers
October 26, 2023
It's funny re-reading a series that you were obsessed with as a teenager. Looking back, I can definitely see how much my sense of humour was influenced by Louise Rennison. Her occasionally absurd, borderline-facetious style is still very much my favourite brand of humour today, especially when done through the female-gaze.

The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson definitely held up in that regard. Even reading it as a 30-something-year-old, I laughed out loud more times than I can count. I also noticed, this time around, that despite Georgia's obsession with boys, there's actually a lot of positive-messaging around female friendships in this series. Those friendships are actually more the focus than anything. Georgia's boyfriends come and go, but the Ace Gang remains.

And of course - there's also Dave the Laugh. He's the best. There's also a pretty good message there, in terms of how his and Georgia's arc goes. He's really the only guy throughout that Georgia is actually her true self around - the one that she doesn't feel the need to "act mature" or "doll up" for. I like that she chooses him in the end and think that also sends a good message to teenage readers.

The only reason I've given this series an overall 4 stars instead of 5 is because some of the attitudes are definitely showing their age. Namely, Georgia's constant references to not wanting to appear like a lesbian. It is crazy to think that 15 years ago we didn't blink an eye at comments like that, but reading them now, it's hard not to be thrown out of the story by it.
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19 reviews
May 3, 2023
Oh giddy god! My absolute favourite childhood collection. Finding these books when I was around 10 years old was like leveling up from my obsession with the Jacqueline Wilson collection. From child - teen upgrade in one go. Discovering Georgia and the gang helped me so much. I felt completely bad ass and grown up reading these before I hit my teens and I do genuinely believe I would have had a lesser quality of life back then if I had not had these attached to me. I remember, age 11, carrying the first book with me to a child minders who was overly religious, they thought I was reading something inappropriate what with the word 'thongs' being on the front cover and they actually took the book away from me and hid it on top of a shelf that I couldn't reach! I made sure my mum retrieved it back for me when she came to their house to collect me and I protected these books with my liiiiiife from then on!!!!! Such funny, relatable and true to life stories... Plus my nose is slightly big and I definitely have big "shelf' boobs like Georgia describes hahaha so I could relate to her SOOOO much, + I wrote in my diary constantly as a child about the boys I fancied at school and everything else - so I honestly HONESTLY felt like this book was my actual life. :") thank you Louise!
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March 8, 2016
MAD BRITISH TEENAGER FAILS AT EVERYTHING, EXCEPT ATTRACTING BOYS. APPARENTLY HAVING ENORMOUS BREASTS IS GOOD FOR SOMETHING.

:D

I REREAD THESE RECENTLY AND THEY HELD UP SURPRISINGLY WELL!

NOW I WANT TO REREAD THE GEORGIA NICHOLSON BOOKS.

LOL I BOUGHT THE SET OF THEM A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO JUST TO HAVE FOR LOLS.

INO I HAVE THEM SOMEWHERE! I'LL HAVE TO DIG THEM OUT, THEY WERE TRUFAX RLY LOLZY.

I'M REREADING THE GEORGIA NICOLSON BOOKS BECAUSE LOUISE RENNISON DIED, AND LOL IT'S TAKING ME RIGHT BACK TO BEING TWELVE AND MY FRANDS AND I READING THEM ALOUD TO EACH OTHER AT SLEEPOVERS.
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19 reviews1 follower
January 3, 2012
So very VERY funny!
Georgia and her friends definately speak in their own lingo and it was a bit hard to get the hang of it in the very beginning but after that? It was absolutely hilarious and fun to follow along Georgia's and the Ace Gang's adventures through Stalag 14 (school) to Froggy-a-go-go land (France).
These girls are a little bit immature but I laugh out loud EVERY single time I pick up one of these books - they're the kind that leaves you feeling a little silly and happy at the same time.

Georgia Nicolson is definately very fabitty-fab-fab.
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22 reviews
June 9, 2011
These are my favourite series of books. They are extremly funny and never fail to cheer me up. Georgia Nicolson is a brilliant character, though a drama queen, she brings out the best in teenage love, love and school. Her gang of equally crazy girls piece the books together. Could not stop reading.
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352 reviews2 followers
July 2, 2015
I read this series a long time ago and even though it's been a long time, I can say without a doubt, it is one of my favourite series. All the characters are great and they grow with the books, there's a lot of hilarious moments that never get old. Some moments are funny because they're so relatable and others are just flat out hysterical.

Very entertaining and I can't wait to re-read them.
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22 reviews
April 12, 2011
Read when I was a teenager and thought they were utterly hilarious! The author really captured the ideas and thoughts of a teenage girl in this collection of witty diary entries by the main character Georgia. A must read if you enjoy and easy and funny read...
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20 reviews1 follower
September 28, 2014
Hilarious series that I have read over and over again! Read it for the first time as a preteen and have revisited it in my later teen years- I've come to appreciate her adventures and misadventures (mostly misadventures;)).
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May 17, 2011
i read most,almost done.i saw the movie long time ago and i must addmit i dont know why im even still reading this..
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11 reviews2 followers
May 19, 2011
I love Georgia Nicholson! These books made me laugh over and over again!
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23 reviews1 follower
June 9, 2011
there are 10 books I believe, I've read every one and i need to get the first 5 so I can start reading them again
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