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iCarly: iGo to Japan!
Hey, people! The iCARLY television and web phenomenon is now in books!
160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Aaron Rosenberg
234 books117 followersAaron Rosenberg is an award-winning, bestselling novelist, children’s book author, and game designer. He's written original fiction (including the NOOK-bestselling humorous science fiction novel No Small Bills, the Dread Remora space-opera series, and the O.C.L.T. supernatural thriller series), tie-in novels (including the PsiPhi winner Collective Hindsight for Star Trek: SCE, the Daemon Gates trilogy for Warhammer, Tides of Darkness and the Scribe-nominated Beyond the Dark Portal for WarCraft, Hunt and Run for Stargate: Atlantis, and Substitution Method and Road Less Traveled for Eureka), young adult novels (including the Scribe-winning Bandslam: The Novel and books for iCarly and Ben10), children's books (including an original Scholastic Bestseller series, Pete and Penny's Pizza Puzzles, and work for PowerPuff Girls and Transformers Animated), roleplaying games (including original games like Asylum and Spookshow, the Origins Award-winning Gamemastering Secrets, and sections of The Supernatural Roleplaying Game, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, and The Deryni Roleplaying Game), short stories, webcomics, essays, and educational books. He has ranged from mystery to speculative fiction to drama to comedy, always with the same intent—to tell a good story. You can visit him online at gryphonrose.com or follow him on Twitter @gryphonrose.
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February 4, 2024
I’m slowly working my way through all the iCarly junior novelisations, and while I completely understand the intended audience, this one has been my least favourite so far.
Most of the books are novelisations of two episodes that have similar themes (so that they “go together”). This book was a novelisation of one movie length episode (or what would be three regular episodes).
In general, all the books do a good job of novelising the episodes, however, in an effort to get this book to be roughly the same length as the other books in the series, it seems that the author really short changed us on details from the episode that would have made the book more interesting or coherent.
For example: at one point the author off handedly mentions that Spencer is utilising a Japanese tutor but then drops the subject without elaborating. Later on, the author references the burn marks on Spencer’s neck, but unless you’ve seen the episode and KNOW that part of his electronic tutor program includes him wearing a shock collar, you’d have no idea what that meant or why it was in the book.
Also - a whole scene about Spencer and Mrs Benson escaping from a Massage Parlour could have been an exciting and funny chapter all its own, but the author shortened that entire scene down to one blurb in the middle of another chapter. Seemed rushed and glossed over.
I dunno… like I said, I get that the intended audience is tweens who have more than likely watched and loved the show and just want more to devour, but even so, I think this one was written kinda lazily.
Most of the books are novelisations of two episodes that have similar themes (so that they “go together”). This book was a novelisation of one movie length episode (or what would be three regular episodes).
In general, all the books do a good job of novelising the episodes, however, in an effort to get this book to be roughly the same length as the other books in the series, it seems that the author really short changed us on details from the episode that would have made the book more interesting or coherent.
For example: at one point the author off handedly mentions that Spencer is utilising a Japanese tutor but then drops the subject without elaborating. Later on, the author references the burn marks on Spencer’s neck, but unless you’ve seen the episode and KNOW that part of his electronic tutor program includes him wearing a shock collar, you’d have no idea what that meant or why it was in the book.
Also - a whole scene about Spencer and Mrs Benson escaping from a Massage Parlour could have been an exciting and funny chapter all its own, but the author shortened that entire scene down to one blurb in the middle of another chapter. Seemed rushed and glossed over.
I dunno… like I said, I get that the intended audience is tweens who have more than likely watched and loved the show and just want more to devour, but even so, I think this one was written kinda lazily.
November 30, 2015
this book is really great and amazing and very diffrent to other books
February 4, 2019
I remembered watching this show with the kids when they were smaller and thinking that I liked it. For that reason when I saw this in a box of books that I had lying around I grabbed it for a quick read. At least it was that.
I'm thinking that I must be remembering with fondness the act of sitting with the kids and watching TV more than I was remembering the show. This book spans a movie tied in to the TV show iCarly and was silly, inane, with a plot that made absolutely no sense, and solutions that were absolutely impossible that you were expected to accept anyway.
On the other hand, I'm not faulting the author. I suspect they were given a script to work with, and so technically there was nothing wrong with the book. It was the overall plot that was flawed.
I DO like how they portrayed the relationships between the characters and took deeper what was likely given by the original script. So yes, Aaron Rosenberg you did good. I'm sorry you didn't have better material to work with.
I'm thinking that I must be remembering with fondness the act of sitting with the kids and watching TV more than I was remembering the show. This book spans a movie tied in to the TV show iCarly and was silly, inane, with a plot that made absolutely no sense, and solutions that were absolutely impossible that you were expected to accept anyway.
On the other hand, I'm not faulting the author. I suspect they were given a script to work with, and so technically there was nothing wrong with the book. It was the overall plot that was flawed.
I DO like how they portrayed the relationships between the characters and took deeper what was likely given by the original script. So yes, Aaron Rosenberg you did good. I'm sorry you didn't have better material to work with.
February 6, 2025
Definitely aged the worst out of any iCarly episode…I’m convinced Dan Schneider knows nothing about Japan and just decided to add every racist stereotype in here. Dan, you will go to hell.
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