Books Stop in the Name of Pants! (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson)
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Rating: - STOP IN THE NAME OF PANTS! is, as ever, highly entertaining and hilarious.
Georgia Nicolson just doesn't stop. She can't help getting into more red bottomous situations with snogging partners who are not her Italian Luuurve God boyfriend. As if that weren't enough, summer is almost over, the bonkers parents don't understand why she absolutely needs to visit Italy, and ex-boyfriend Robbie the Sex God is back in town. Erlack.

If you didn't understand that, then clearly you are unfamiliar with the Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series. Stop reading here, go to the bookstore and buy the first book, ANGUS, THONGS, AND FULL-FRONTAL SNOGGING (which, incidentally, is now a film, scheduled to be released in the U.S. this fall).

For those who are familiar with the mad Miss Nicolson, STOP IN THE NAME OF PANTS! will not be a disappointment. This ninth installment of the series features Georgia in the heat of summer, and at the heat of confusion, missing her new Italian boyfriend, Masimo, and accidentally snogging Dave the Laugh. Again. And, of course, the ace gang has their share of boyfriend ups and downs, and Georgia is there to comment on it all.

Reading the Georgia Nicolson books is like reading a great blog. Even if nothing happens, your narrator is so hilarious, you love the way she describes the most mundane things. STOP IN THE NAME OF PANTS! is not driven by plot so much as by character. It really is like peeking into someone's diary --- it's just that that someone lives in an alternate universe so much unlike our own, yet it's very similar as well. This isn't a story. This is a life. Or something. Surely Georgia would have a better word for it.

There is no shortage of hilarious words in the book, and at this point, they don't even faze me when I read them. Of course "geniosity" and "marvy" are words. And of course the only acceptable way to refer to the country from whence Georgia's boyfriend hails is Pizza-a-gogo-land.

Thankfully, the series isn't static. Characteristically, Georgia is just a little crazy, as are her friends, parents and little sister Libby. And, of course, the book spans only a few months of her life. But things are changing and progressing. Jas and Tom are having problems, Robbie is again dating Wet Lindsay, and you'll never guess what happens to Georgia's dear cat Angus. Louise Rennison has managed to stay completely in the tune of what has made her books so popular without making them boring. STOP IN THE NAME OF PANTS! is, as ever, highly entertaining and hilarious.

--- Reviewed by Sarah Hannah Gómez

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Rating: - disappointing
I'm a big fan of the first few Georgia Nicholson books, but this last one is a big disappointment. The first few books are so hilarious that the fact that the style is pretty contrived and there is basically no plot line is only a little annoying. However, those bad tendencies are amplified 10x in this book and Georgia's funny, self-absorbed adventures and commentary are much less entertaining than other books in the series. It just seems like Renninson wrote it in a long weekend and clearly has no regard or care to develop the plot or characters. Of course this is a youth book, but there are glaring errors, like calling Dave the Laugh's girlfriend two different names in the same paragraph. Just disappointing because the other books are so hilarious and entertaining.

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Rating: - This is a new book?
Sure didn't seem like it was new.
Same old same old except for the incident with Angus.
I just want something to happen in this series already.
I'm mad that I ran out and spent nearly 20$ for this book and I could have just reread one of the other ones for Pete's sake!

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Rating: - Gorgey! Hamburger-A-Go-Go-Land lurrrves Georgia Nicholson!
Stop in the Name of Pants! is the ninth book in the Georgian Nicolson series, which is full of hilariousity, lurrve, bestest pallies and all the things that make being a teenage girl the rollercoaster ride that it is.

This hilarious, British series for teens is best appreciated when read in order:

1. Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging
2. On the Bright Side, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God
3. Knocked Out by My Nunga-Nungas
4. Dancing in My Nuddy Pants
5. Away Laughing on a Fast Camel (or outside North America, And Then It Fell Off in My Hand)
6. Then He Ate My Boy Entrancers
7. Startled by His Furry Shorts
8. Love Is a Many Trousered Thing

I fell in love with the first book, found the series dragged in books two and three (was very disappointed Georgia never went to Kiwi-A-Go-Go-Land), but then was delighted I stuck around, because the series eventually found a great pace starting with Away Laughing on a Fast Camel.

When we last left Georgia at the end of Love Is a Many Trousered Thing, she had left the Cake Shop of Lurrve with the Italian pastry, otherwise known as the Lurrve God, after eschewing Robbie, otherwise knows as the Sex God, with a firm hand. But then Dave the Laugh had to go and spoil it all with a kiss. What's Georgia to do?

Well, I'm not going to spoil it by telling you, but I will tell you Stop in the Name of Pants is full of the romance and humor that has made this series an international hit, and fans of the series will not be disappointed. I will also tell you this book, like the last four, ends on a cliffhanger, or as Georgia would put it, with her once again on the Rack of Lurrve. I can also tell you there's a dramatic event in this book that surprised me and had me in tears, but it still fit the series perfectly. It's always nice when a series can continue to surprise you as far in as book nine and yet remain true to itself.

Oh, and one small problem--this book is missing the Snogging Scale. Of course, the reader can always refer to an earlier book for that, and some bonus features here include instructions for The Viking Bison Disco Inferno dance, The Snot Disco Inferno dance, and The Viking Disco Hornpipe Extravaganza dance; the Having a Hump Scale (which is what we call "getting mad" in Hamburger-A-Go-Go-Land); the Losing It Scale; and of course one of Georgia's glossaries, which explains UK English words in a way that only Georgia can.

The Georgia Nicolson books are a laugh-out-loud treat, and they are even better in audio. I'm also looking forward to seeing the first movie, Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, when it arrives in the USA, the sooner the better.

Nunga Nungas or not, Georgia Nicolson knocks me out!