Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2) by Jeff Kinney

Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2) Reviews

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  Nandakishore Mridula

  I read this book for two reasons: I needed to get my book count up for the reading challenge, and reading We Need To Talk About Kevin immediately after No Country For Old Men was too much darkness, even for me. I picked this up from son's shelf, because I had enjoyed the first book: my son was flabbergasted, and my wife made fun of me, saying she'd give me Peter Pan next. But I am glad I did pick it up, however.
  
  Greg Heffley is a loser: bullied by his elder brother and followed about by his tattletale younger one, ignored by the pretty girls and able to befriend only the unspeakable Rowley, he must be justified in feeling that life is unjust to him. He pours all this righteous indignation into the "journal" (he will kill himself before he calls it a "diary"!) his mother forces him to write. The result is HILARIOUS.
  
  Jeff Kinney is a truly comic writer who has mastered the strength of the understatement. Greg's voice throughout the book is a sort of sardonic monotone-one is reminded of those sad-faced clowns who will have you in stitches. The journal is pieced together in little vignettes, like a series of connected jokes-and the punchline is often a cartoon. (I feel that authors should use illustrations more often, even in serious novels. In Vanity Fair, Thackeray's illustrations are as famous as his words.)
  
  Greg, in this book, has grown up a little from his previous outing. His sarcasm has taken on an edge, and the portraits he paints of his Dad and Mom are less than flattering. Yet, they are lovable, all the same.
  
  Jeff Kinney has written a book that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike.
  
  Recommended whenever one needs a mood uplift!
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  Tal

  Ok, so I read this book to see why my students seem to love it so.
  
  Now, I'm all for silly humor. I can understand that, but I don't get the attraction for this book. I hated it. I finished it in a little over a day, but never did I stop wishing for it to end. I think the characters were horrible; the people in the book did mean things to each other; every person in the book was inconsiderate to each other; etc. I really could go on! I know I'm going to hurt some feelings next week when I report to my students my feelings about this book, but it really wasn't good. Was there really even a storyline?
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  Calista

  I went to my Brother's house Friday and my nephew gave me a hug and then gave me a book. He gave me 'Roderick Rules' and told me with all seriousness, "It's time you read this book. Here, read this." I said "Thank you, I will." So I started it while they were doing some work and the book would make me chuckle and Nephew would have to come over and see the part that made me laugh.
  
  He is excited to talk about these books with me. Book 16 in the series came out October and he finished it so he is caught up. Who knows if I have to read all 16, but I have to say that these books are really funny.
  
  I mean, Jeff Kinney has an amazing sense of humor. There is a joke on about every page. It looks like a journal and there are drawings done by Greg, our protagonist that Nephew loves. It really is a well thought out book and it's why this series has sold more than 250 million copies world wide. It is written for middle grade and as an adult, I could still enjoy reading it.
  
  The characters do seem pretty mean, but it seems to me it's done to set up the jokes, always at the expense of the mean kids, well, mostly. It is the zaniness of family.
  
  I have seen the movie and I think the movie takes the scenes from the book and does them better. Roderick throws a party in the book and Greg is stuck in the basement the whole time, while the movie, Greg finds a way out of the basement and Rowley shows up. I think it makes more bigger laughs. The beginning of the book, I thought was better, but then the movie gets better toward the end.
  
  I think it took me 2 hours to read or so. Kids who love humor, these are a great series.
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  Lucy

  it was also very funny and kids who can read should deffntly read it
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  Ahmad Sharabiani

  Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #2), Jeff Kinney
  Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, is a children's novel by American author and cartoonist Jeff Kinney. It is the sequel to Diary of a Wimpy Kid, followed by The Last Straw. Rodrick Rules, was released on February 1, 2008. At the start of the book, Greg explains how bad his summer vacation was in which after being signed up with the swim team without his consent, he had to deal with practice at 7:00 AM, being the worst swimmer on the team and his brother Rodrick annoying him about a secret that Greg is trying to keep. After Rodrick puts him in the back of his van and finds every speed bump in the town, he drops Greg off to school but Greg finds out he still has the Cheese Touch from last year. He gets away with passing it on to a new kid named Jeremy Pindle. ...
  عنوانها: خاطرات یک بیعرضه: جلد 2، دفترچه آبی؛ دفتر خاطرات پسر لاغرو جلد 2: قانونهای برادرم رودریک؛ خاطرات یک بچه بیعرضه: فرمایشات جناب رودریک؛ دفترچه خاطرات یک بچه ی لاغر: قانون های رودریک؛ دفترچه خاطرات یک بیعرضه: دفتر دوم حرف حرف رودریکه؛ دستورات رودریک؛ نویسنده: جف کینی؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و یکم ماه سپتامبر سال 2012 میلادی
  عنوان: خاطرات یک بیعرضه: جلد 2، دفترچه آبی؛ نویسنده: جف کینی؛ مترجم: ندا شادنظر؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، ایران بان، چاپ نخست تا چاپ چهارم 1389، در 224 ص، مصور، اندازه 5/14 در 5/19 س.م؛ فروست: خاطرات یک بیعرضه جلد 2، شابک جلد 2: 9789642980826؛ چاپ دهم 1394؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، ایرانبان، چاپ ششم 1392؛ چاپ دیگر: با عنوان: خاطرات یک بیعرضه: دفترچه آبی آسمانی؛ تهران، ایرانبان؛ 1391؛ در 224 ص؛ شابک: 9786001880865؛ موضوع: داستانهای فکاهی مصور، دفترچه های خاطرات، مدرسه ها، داستان؛ گروه سنی ب و ج از نویسندگان امریکایی - سده 21 م
  عنوان: دفتر خاطرات پسر لاغرو جلد 2: قانونهای برادرم رودریک؛ نویسنده: جف کینی، مترجم: پروین علیپور؛ تهران، چشمه، 1389؛ در 220 ص؛ شابک: 9789643629496؛
  عنوان: خاطرات یک بچه بیعرضه: فرمایشات جناب رودریک؛ نویسنده: جف کینی، مترجم: فرخ بافنده؛ مشهد، نیکونشر، 1389؛ در 224 ص؛ شابک: 9789647253383؛
  عنوان: دفترچه خاطرات یک بچه ی لاغر: قانون های رودریک؛ نویسنده: جف کینی، مترجم: میترا لبافی؛ تهران، شهر قصه، 1391؛ در 224 ص؛شابک: 9786009117727؛ چاپ دوم 1392؛
  عنوان: دفترچه خاطرات یک بیعرضه: دفتر دوم حرف حرف رودریکه؛ نویسنده: جف کینی، مترجم: نازنین دیهیمی؛ تهران، ماهی، 1393؛ در 199 ص؛ شابک: 9789642091416؛ چاپ دوم 1392؛
  عنوان: دستورات رودریک؛ نویسنده: جف کینی، مترجم: نسرین مهاجرانی؛ تهران، ماهی، 1393؛ شابک: 9789642091416؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، پیدایش، چاپ ششم 1395؛ در 221 ص؛شابک: 9789643499105؛ چاپ دوم 1392؛
  دفترچه خاطرات یک بی‌عرضه: جلد دوم دفترچه آبی، یا: (حرف، حرف رودریکه)، یا (دستورات رودریک)، در سبک طنز و به صورت دفترچه خاطرات نگاشته و به تصویر کشیده شده، دومین کتاب از مجموعهٔ شش جلدی «دفترچه خاطرات یک بی‌عرضه» به قلم جف کینی است. ا. شربیانی
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  Rosaline (Rosaline's Rolls & Scrolls)

  Okay, I have a couple of things to say about this book.
  
  First of all, I think this kid's parents are terrible. And I feel like a cliched old judgmental distant relative judging these two's parenting style, but God, how awful of a parent can you be?
  The parents openly favor a child over the others, they display extremely rash behaviors, and none of the things they do would help these children "learn" or "improve" anything as they are trying to do. Apparently. Could've fooled me.
  They force their kids to participate in activities they like and completely disregard their children's interests. And there was an instant in the first book where the kid, Greg, ruins his little brother's snowman. His dad then sees this and proceeds to destroy Greg's own snowman which he had spent the whole day trying to make. I mean really? Where do you think your child learns to be an asshole to someone smaller than him, dear Dad?
  Furthermore, there's a part where Greg goes to his mom for help after an embarrassing thing is revealed about him to the whole school and she basically tells him to forget about it and that the other students "would understand". She also accidentally ruins her other son's video tape (which was hilarious tbh) but then takes no responsibility for it. No wonder Rodrick is the way he is! These parents don't get to complain about his behaviors honestly. The only time these two spend with their children is to either yell at and punish them or to be disappointing and try to "teach them a lesson" by making their lives miserable.
  Frankly, anyone complaining about Greg being a jerk should take a look at his parents!
  
  Now, I know that none of what I'm complaining about here is actually the point in this book. It's all written for fun and everything. But for some reason these parents trigger me to no end.
  
  Another thing I would like to talk about is the whole bathroom turned into girl's locker room rumor incident. What the hell, man? The book ends with the kids at school congratulating Greg about being a peeping Tom at the girl's locker room, which is not even what happened. But still, that is disturbing. And he relishes "his moment of glory". Moment of glory, people! Glory!
  This is a middle grade book. Do you see why this is a huge problem?
  
  Well, boys will be boys... Isn't that the theme of the century?
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  Kallie Polk

  awesome!!!!!!!!!!
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  Heba

  كم يثير دهشتي قدرة عائلة " هيفلي " بأن لا تُكرر المواقف الهزلية ذاتها...😄😄
  قوانين الأخ الأكبر التي يخضع لها " غريغ " تقوم على تحقيق مصالح " رودريك " ومن هنا تنشب الخلافات التي لا تنتهي....
  والله " راولي " صديق " غريغ " مُشفقة عليه ، لا يسلم الصبي من المقالب العجيبة والتي لابد وأن يتأذى منها ...
  يكفي هذا... ، فأنت لا تدري ما الذي قد يحدث لك في المرة القادمة 🤪
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  Reading_ Tamishly

  A HUGE improvement over the first book👍
  The narration is hilarious; the sketches getting more awesome👍
  The family is one puzzling maze for Gregory to continue in with his 'diary' journal. There is something about this series that is making me difficult to stop reading till the last page of each book without laughing out loud at the silly thoughts of a growing up kid.
  Highly recommended👍
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  Mephistia

  I didn't like it, personally. The cartoons were cute and funny -- some parents may think that means younger kids can read it, but the reading level is definitely around 5th grade and older. Think the age the first HP book was aimed at, and you have the correct reading age for this book.
  
  Why I didn't like it? The protagonist never learned a lesson of any sort whatsoever. Throughout the book, it was hinted at that his elder brother (Rodrick) had a horrific secret held over his head. I was honestly eagerly waiting for Rodrick to let that cat out of the bag, because as odious as Rodrick was depicted to be, the protagonist himself was even more of a jerk.
  
  This main character who we're supposed to sympathize with insults his "friends" constantly, talking about how he thinks they're stupid and he only hangs out with them because they have a hot babysitter or can get him good grades or some other reason. He makes fun of everyone around him, and it's sometimes funny and sometimes insightful, but it's relentlessly cruel. I wanted him to be redeemed in the end, I wanted him to be taught a lesson. But he wasn't -- nothing happened.
  
  I was hoping this would be something along the lines of "Harriet The Spy," but it wasn't. It wasn't funny, intelligent, life-changing or in any way great. The only decent thing about this book is that it apparently opens the door into reading for boys who otherwise showed little interest.
  
  I say buy them the "Great Brain" series. Nothing Tom and his Great Brain can't handle.
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  KatieLynn

  Rodrick Rules was just as funny and descriptive as the other. In this book, Greg has disturbing conflicts with his brother that enrages Greg. As Greg states his *moments* with Rodrick, he discovers Rodrick has been rather mean too him. I can't wait to read the third book!
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  Louie the Mustache Matos

  My youngest is not a reader, which was shocking to me considering that both his parents are readers, and his two older brothers are readers, as well. I am not shocked that he's disregarding his parents' footsteps in this regard, but shocked that his brothers have not been able to influence him. He worships his oldest brother (8 years his senior.) Somehow though, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise books were able to goose him along a bit. In Rodrick Rules, Greg is manipulated by his older brother, because his brother is holding a summer incident over his head like a sword of Damocles. I have no doubt that there was a similar situation with my youngest. I used to do the same with my siblings. In Rodrick Rules, poop flows downhill, and poor Rowley, the neighbor kid who doesn't have siblings gets the most (figuratively speaking) poop runoff just for the pleasure of being included. I remember my nephew was like that just wanting to hang with my boys, willing to put up with stuff just to be included. I enjoyed this one a little more because despite the constant back and forth between Greg and Rodrick, there's also a cooperative project where the brotherly affection seeps through. Luckily, I feel despite their overt age differences, my three sons continue to be close in affection, interests, and desire to protect each other.
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  Alshaimaa

  This book I can't describe:D
  It's funny
  I read it so slow, so the laugh doesn't end of my day:)
  Just a little something:
  -dad said to Rodrick: well, for starters Abraham Lincon didin't write "to kill a mockingbird":D
  hahaha
  I really recommend this book to everyone wanna have a relaxing time.
  ENJOY
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  Hiba⁷

  I swear this was funny 😂😂😂 hell a lot funny than the first one! So it was about Gregory and his relationship with his brother Rodrick, and even though my relation with my brother was never the same but this! This was so funny.
  The last page with the scientific experiment on plants and black pepper made me crack up!
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  Shannon

  This book wasn't as silly as the first one and it seems to focus more on Greg and his friends and family being mean to each other.
  
  This book focuses more on Greg's relationship with his older brother and how Rodrick is always picking on him. Greg's younger brother Manny is a tattletale who gets away with everything. Greg has unfortunately been picking up a lot of Rodrick's personality traits too; he plays mean tricks on his classmates and is horrible to his "best friend." At this point I kind of want to read Rowley's diary more than Greg's.
  
  His parents aren't much better either. His Dad piles up pillows in bed to trick his wife into thinking he's still there watching a movie with her. He just wants to play in the basement for hours by himself with his civil war models. Yeah, that's a healthy relationship. And when he goes to hear Rodrick play with his band in the school talent show he shoves cotton balls in his ears and stands at the back of the auditorium. That's a good Dad.
  
  Also, Rodrick is apparently dumb as rocks but has found a way into manipulating his parents into doing his homework for him. I'm not sure why that would be funny or congratulated.
  
  The whole reason Rodrick is picking on Greg and getting away with it is because he knows an embarrassing secret about Greg that happened during the summer. When you finally find out what the secret is, it's pretty underwhelming and dumb. It was nowhere near as funny as the "Cheese Touch" story that ran through the first book.
  
  I don't really know what went wrong with this one. It seems like the whole book was full of mean people making poor choices. Now I don't believe that the majority of children will be warped by reading about how to play mean tricks on people and get away with doing bad things, but this book wasn't very funny and the characters didn't have any redeeming qualities at all. I hope the next one is funnier.
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  Corbett Martin

  coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
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  Archit

  
  
  I am reviewing this one soon for sure!
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  Nadia Awadi

  Better than the first one but still meh.
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  Prabhjot Kaur

  Greg is about to start a new school year and he's actually looking forward to going back to school as he didn't have the best summer. He had to join swim team and he had his older brother, Rodrick take him home after the swim practice, both these things he didn't enjoy as the water was too cold for swimming and the ride home with Rodrick was at the back of the van with music equipment. Something else also happened over the summer which Rodrick knows about and leverages it against Greg, which Greg doesn't want getting out.
  
  Greg is teased and bullied by Rodrick a lot which made me feel sorry for him as well as gave me laugh out loud moments. His parents also ground him along with Rodrick even when he isn't at fault. Greg also gets into mischief on his own when he starts up the whole invisibility thing with Chirag Gupta. He is also responsible for Rowley's broken toe. Even though Rodrick bullied him for the most part and let his secret out at the end to embarrass him, Greg still ends up helping Rodrick in the end.
  
  I really liked the first book in the series and I also liked this one. It was funny and Greg is still the same mean prick but he gets a little, just a smidge better at the end. Much like the first one, I quite enjoyed the sketches and it was a fun read.
  
  4 stars
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  [S] Bibliophage

  Anyone who has a sibling or siblings could relate to Greg in this 2nd installment. Aside from Manny, Rodrick is one of my favorite character in this series. Rodrick could be a little pain in the ass for Greg but behind his facade, he cares and love for his younger brothers even though he just doesn't want to admit it.
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  Sara Kamjou

  گرگ به نوشتن خاطرات روزمره‌ش در قالب طنز تو دفترچه خاطراتش ادامه می‌ده.
  داستان جلد دوم تو همون مایه‌ی جلد اوله و چیز خاصی اضافه نمی‌شه.
  به نظرم فضای کتاب زیادی پسرونه‌ست و در واقع هیچ شخصیت دختری تو این کتاب حضور نداره. این موضوع رو کاهش جذابیتش برای من تاثیر داشت. کاش گرگ یه خواهر هم داشت! :))
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  Shainlock

  Very funny and way different than the movie. I like the books much better, but no one ever says that ! Ha!
  Just some lighthearted reading after a bunch of stuff ending up bring about cults and can-eye-ball-ism.
  Happy reading all.
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  Betsy

  
  When last we saw our hero Greg Heffley he had survived everything from cursed cheese to an unfortunate stage debut. Not that much has changed in his life, of course. He’s still a perpetual victim of his older brother Rodrick’s crazy schemes and his younger brother Manny’s three-year-old excesses. Greg might have to do what Rodrick says for a while too since his older brother knows something terrible, HORRIBLE even, that happened to Greg over the summer and he's threatening to tell the world. And though Greg might try to participate in everything from role-playing to writing his comic strip to forget it, eventually that sword of Damocles is going to fall. It’s just a matter of time.
  
  Kinney is almost eerily good at writing material that is as funny to kids as it is to adults. I haven’t yet discussed this book with someone who doesn’t know how the game Dungeons and Dragons works, so I wonder if a D&D newbie would find the game in which Greg’s mom joins (calling her character “Mom”) as funny as I did. For a sequel, there’s a lot of new stuff in this book as well. We finally get a chance to see Loded Diper (Rodrick’s band) play. We see Manny enter preschool on Halloween Day with disastrous results. And then there’s the Mom Bucks program instituted by Greg’s mother. That one sounded a little too real to have been made up, though.
  
  You could probably use these books in class to discuss the concept of the “unreliable narrator” because at a certain point, Greg’s life is what every pre-teen to teen boy feels like his own life is. Everybody gets away with stuff except for you. Parents are too nerdy or out-of-it to be of any use, friends are unreliable, and the world is a scary place where your unique skills are not recognized. You get the distinct feeling that Greg might be exaggerating some of the events in his life, but that's not a bad thing. That said, it’s hard not to feel vindicated when Rodrick finally has something bad happen to him at the end of the book. Who knew that YouTube can be the ultimate high school equalizer! It brings adolescent embarrassment to a whole new level.
  
  There are a lot of familiar callbacks, of course. Fights with best friend Rowley, for example. And I was very sad to find that one of my favorite characters, Fregley, didn’t make an appearance in this sequel. Still, it all basically comes down to this: If you like the first “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” then you will like the second. Maybe it doesn’t carry the surprise of the first book, but what sequel does? Thoroughly enjoyable and unrepentantly hilarious.
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  Sameem Khwaja

  Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney is an exciting and hilarious journey of Greg Heffley. In Rodrick Rules, Jeff Kinney focuses on the relationship of Greg and his brothers, Rodrick and Manny. Rodrick is older than Greg, and is much more 'corrupt'. He manipulates his father into doing his homework and other selfish acts. Rodrick soon gets caught and gets punished. Manny on the other hand, never gets caught doing bad things. Greg hates Manny for many reasons, one being manny gets away with everything by just saying 'I'm fiiive'. Greg somehow always gets blamed for Manny's problems, which starts many conflict between them and also the family. Diary of a Wimpy Kid was my cup of tea. I really enjoyed it simply because I love funny, 1st person books. I could relate to the book and make many connections, which really helped me understand the book. Rodrick Rules was also my e-book. I really enjoyed the experience of reading a book on my mom's kindle. I liked, not having to memorise which page I was on, and other small stuff like that. But I however, enjoy reading a paperback more. I feel when you read an e-book you lose this special feeling of reading.
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  Alex

  I re-read this because after reading Outlander I feel like nothing will compare, so I'm stuck in a loop of children's books. It's not that I can't read an adult book it's that I don't want to. I feel like my love of Outlander will cause a bad rating and review for the next romance read so I stuck with these.
  
  Also, I've always enjoyed these books. Yes I may be older then the intended age group but I love this series. My reviews from earlier didn't do this book justice, so I thought I'd re-read and re-rate the series because I love them. Honestly if you're looking for a laugh I recommend these, they also definitely help get over a book slump!
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  Mehrnaz

  خوندن این کتاب یه توفیق اجباری بود که خیلی شگفت زدم کرد. کتاب داستان های تیکه تیکه از زندگی روزمره یه پسر بچه است(رودریک اسم برادرشه) که طوری که زندگی و آدم های اطرافشو میبینه فوق‌العاده طنز و واقع گرایانست، آدم ها واتفاق های مختلفی که تو زندگی بزرگسالی فراوون ان و توصیف مزخرف بودنشون خیلی سخته ولی این کتاب با دید طنز همه ی اونارو اونجوری که لازم داری بیان میکنه، و باعث خنده های واقعی میشه.به نظرم خوندن این کتاب به هیچ حس و حال خاصی نیاز نداره و همیشه میشه ازش لذت برد و خندید.
  اول خواستم ۴ستاره بدم بعد دیدم واقعا توی سبکی که نوشته شده و مخصوصا اینکه داستان کودکان هیچ ایرادی نیست، و ۵ شایسته شه.
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  A_ bookbound _soul

  3.5 stars!
  
  "Anyway, when Rodrick gets First Prize tomorrow and passes Science, I just hope he realises how lucky he is to have a brother like ME."
  
  
  This book definitely tickled my fancy. The book depicted the relationship between Greg(the narrator) and his elder brother Rodrick in a way that can surely crack you up. And all those cartoons were cherry on the top! I really enjoyed it and read it in single read.
  Recommended for light reading and those who enjoy silly humour.