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Me! (Just Like You, Only Better) (2011)

by Jim Benton(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0545116163 (ISBN13: 9780545116169)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Scholastic, Inc.

series

Dear Dumb Diary

review 1: The first year of Jamie Kelly's dear dumb life caps off with a bravura performance! This one has Jamie thinking VERY highly of three things: she, herself and her! And why not: it's her birthday! So she decides to take the word of her overtly sexy art teacher Miss Anderson and do a poster for her fave band she calls FATAALD, a scuzzy Nirvana-like quartet of pissy-handsome rockers. Except: Jamie's buds Isabella and Angeline have latched onto the FATAALD fan train! It's a FATAALD ATTRACTION on so many levels! So she tries other artists NOT her parents' favorites. Mom likes 80s rockers in their 40s (at least when they popped up in 1987! Steve Winwood, anyone?), Jamie-Jame likes James Fire, a newer hottie a la Jesse McCartney, and a Mexican singer named Aplo. (Not to be confuse... mored with ALPO, which this hombre seems to resemble at times) but no: Isabella likes HIM, too! So Jamie does the honorable thing: she lies. She spreads rumors of Aplo hangin with a songwriter who penned "Ain't No Koala Back Girl". (Oh. Sure! "Koalas eat bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S!" Thanks for screwing with Gwen, people!) Anyway, great end for the first year...except there's HARDLY ANY STINKER! Oh where, oh where has that little dog gone? Eh, well, there's always year two! Now to close: "I'm feelin Koala good so let's just keep on dancing!" Sorry, couldn't resist!
review 2: This is by far the worst book of the Dear Dumb Diary series that I have read. I realize that I'm too old to be reading these books, but they were a hilarious part of my childhood. I know Jamie is ridiculous, but the books are always an enjoyable read to just breeze through in a day. I could always count on them for that, no matter how many times I would reread them.Jamie is usually somewhat of a know it all if a little obnoxious, but it was just taken way too far in this book. You would think that she would get just a little bit better as the series goes on, but she really thinks that the whole world revolves around her in this one. It's terrible. I feel like Jim Benton abused teenagers love of music in this book too. Absolutely unacceptable. Still totally recommend the series, but maybe skip this book. less

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