![]() ![]() ![]() Most kids with this ambition don't have much else going on. ![]() Her primary preoccupation is whether she'll ever be popular, but it's never explained why this is so important to her. She hates the pretty girl for being pretty, draws a number of pictures mocking the people who are actually dorks, constantly gripes about people who are "weird" or "different" and spends a majority of her time pursuing social acceptance from the people she claims to hate. When was the last time you encountered a middle school kid who met any of those qualifications? Every character appears to be thin, well-groomed, and immaculately dressed. Even "Pretty Little Liars" is dorkier than this. Even the twins from Sweet Valley High were bigger dorks than this. Her friends don't seem to suffer much, either, unless you call "looking like Beyonce" suffering. In other words, Jenny Humphrey.except Jenny actually got rejected by boys every once in awhile, and it's all a cakewalk for this "dork". She's desperate to be cool, the only not-rich kid in an elite private school, with curious artistic talent that she somehow finds the time to nurture in between thinking exclusively shallow, uninteresting thoughts. It bummed me out that my niece didn't have a similarly cynical, selfish protagonist to root for, and thought that might be the case for Dork Diaries.įirst of all, who is the dork in this series, exactly? When I think of a dork, I think of someone with an eccentric personality perpetually rejected by her peers, but who maybe manages to have a blast anyway (with her fellow band/art/ writing dorks). She burned through the "Wimpy Kid" series, and I read one of those in the bookstore cafe in a single sitting, openly guffawing at several hilarious lines. I discovered this book when my sister clued me in that my niece has been reading them, and asked me to pick up a few. ![]()
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