Book Friday - The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
10 July 2009
When I bought the The Princess Diaries I expected to dislike it. I think I’m the one person in the world who thought the movie was cheesy and stinky. Not that it didn’t have redeeming qualities, particulary if you viewed it as a kids’ movie. But I wasn’t impressed, and I expected to feel the same way as about the book. (Which, by the way, I bought for research. You can’t be a YA writer and not read something by Meg Cabot.)
I loved it. I think Meg Cabot should be outraged by what Disney did to her witty, quirky book. (Maybe she secretly is, I don’t know.) And why on earth is the movie set in San Francisco? The book takes place in New York City, and Meg’s love for her city is so clear through all the pages. I’ve read the first three in the series (there’s at least ten) and thought all were fabulously fun reads. Mia Thermopolis is one of my all-time favorite narrators.
So if by chance there are other people turned off by the movie, give the book a chance. As usual, it’s way, way better.
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