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The Princess Diaries: The Princess Diaries Vol. I
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The Princess Diaries: The Princess Diaries Vol. I
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The Princess Diaries: The Princess Diaries Vol. I

Written by Meg Cabot

Narrated by Anne Hathaway

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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She's just a New York City girl living with her artist mom…

News flash: Dad is prince of Genovia. (So that's why a limo always meets her at the airport!)
Downer: Dad can't have any more kids. (So no heir to the throne.)
Shock of the century: Like it or not, Mia is prime princess material.
The worst part: Princess lessons from her dreaded grandmere, the dowager princess of Genovia, who thinks Mia has a thing or two to learn before she steps up to the throne.
Well, her father can lecture her until he's royal-blue in the face about her princessly duty no- way is she moving to Genovia and leaving Manhattan behind. But what's a girl to do when her name is PRINCESS AMELIA MIGNONETTE GRIMALDI THERMOPOLIS RENALDO?
LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 23, 2003
ISBN9781400085842
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The Princess Diaries: The Princess Diaries Vol. I
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Meg Cabot

MEG CABOT’s many books for both adults and teens have included numerous #1 New York Times bestsellers, with more than twenty-five million copies sold worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series was made into two hit films by Disney, with a third movie coming soon. Meg currently lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband and various cats.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    :) I did prefer the movie though . . .
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This is one of those very, very rare occasions where I preferred the movie to the book. Nothing about this book appealed. The characters all annoyed me and I disliked Mia's voice. Couldn't wait to finish! Thankfully, it was a short, easy read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very cute! There are some chuckles. Easy to read.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Cute, fun YA read. Meg Cabot's books are a light, easy reads for when you need some mindless entertainment!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Pure brilliance.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Very Good Book! :]
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    easy read, for lower level students - high interest, but mostly girls. A combination of various formats (diary entries, lists, notes from classes, IMs)
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    No longer my genre. I am too old for this. The movie was cute but I can't read the entire series to get to the interesting parts. Nevertheless, well written for what it is.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I really enjoyed this one even though it is written for younger readers. It is so much different from the movie that I can't even say one is better than the other. I did feel the ending was a little rushed and abrupt but since there are ten more books in the series I don't think that's such a big deal. I plan to read the others at some point but I have so many other books on my list for this year so not sure when.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is one of the few books you'll find that I'll read after I see the movie. I had never heard of this book before seeing the movie (although the cover did look a bit familiar). I even remember actually enjoying the soundtrack ("I'm supergirl!") and according to Amazon.com, both the movie and book came out in 2001(?). That's odd, because usually there's some sort of downtime between the book year and the movie year.Since I had already seen the movie (at least twice), I knew what I was getting myself into. Average girl finds out she's a princess.. yippie. The book is written in journal format in very "teenager-like" sentences. At first, the simple writing annoyed me, but eventually I learned to like it. The style of the main character Mia really grew on me, and her random sprouts of neurosis were definitely entertaining.My friend in my high school year book class first mentioned this book to me, citing that the movie left out a lot of things - and she was right! But unlike most cases, I'm going to have to agree with Disney on what they cut out. They left out her mom's new algebra-teaching boyfriend and the dad and Tina character all together. But all three things, although they helped the story, were very extrenuous. They were all interesting points in her life, but as far as the princess plot went, they barely contributed. In fact, it took a few hundred page (500 total) for Mia to even realize she was supposed to be a princess. I can imagine someone who had never read the book before must be wondering, "when is this princess stuff going to go down?"Disney took a much smarter route in what they left AND what they added. They left out all the aforementioned characters, because they really didn't help the story. They did, however, add more onto the second-romantic interest of Mia. Although, Michael may be touched on in any of the other 4 books (which I'm sure he is). The Disney movie also had something else the book did not - a conclusion! The movie wrapped up nicely and the book more so just ended. Eventually I'll read the other books, but I'm in no hurry.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I picked up this book when i was in High School, I may have picked it because it's cover caught my attention and I couldn't put it down, and i quickly went back to the library and picked up the sequel. Later on i found out that they had mad a movie based on the book and i was so happy. I have to say this is one of the books that got me into reading again.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Although this book was extremely different from the movie, I loved it. I also loved that Anne Hathaway read it - she is amazing at dramatizing the text, as opposed to other readers who just "read" the book.

    Mia's humor and wit made me chuckle and laugh many times. As a said earlier, the story is different from the movie and, although I also love the movie, I think both of them work very well in spite of the changes that were made to fit the story to the big screen.

    Read or listen to this book.; it is such a fun and light read for those times when you just need to relax and unwind. It will also make you feel like you are hanging out with a friend.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was a reread, because I haven’t finished the series and want to, and when I saw that ANNE HATHAWAY was the narrator, I had to listen ! It’s definitly worth it.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    the fact that Anne Hathaway read this is even better!
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    This book does not belong in the children's section. It has inappropriate jokes for kids.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A student demanded I read this book, so I did. It was okay. One of those rare instances where I liked the movie more, but I wonder if that's because I've seen the movie so many times.

    Eventually I will probably read the rest in this series (I really do like Lilly's written character better than in the film version) but I didn't feel compelled to go out and get the rest of the series right away. Enjoyable, to be sure, and when my nieces are older, I'll definitely recommend this one.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I was surprised by how fun this was. Anne Hathaway as the narrator uses a young girl's voice. It is in the form of a diary.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I did not like this book. It just wasn't my style
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Read Harder 2019: An epistolary novel or collection of letters.

    This book is starting to show its age! That just makes it extra nostalgic.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    funny and witty
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Christ, this is the dregs! WHY IN GOD'S NAME did I like these? Review to come with some of the "highlights".
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    -Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there’s nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she’s dating Mia’s Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn't have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance? This book does have a lot of innovation and charm. The style of prose writing as a diary is not new but this book, for the majority of the pages, achieves the rare mix of form and content. Cabot does capture a lot of the mannerisms of the teenagers who are the target audience. There are several disconnects, which roughly jar the reader out of the atmosphere and this really disenfranchises the reader. One can easily see both how this would translate into the movie that it became and how it would never live up in film as it could in text. Repetition prose and even racism are not covered up that much but the most disturbing fact is that Cabot wrote so many books following this one. As a one off, it has merit. As a series, it is bad and weakens an already tenuous grip on readability.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    i luv this book
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This was very different from the movie, but it was still a fun, quick read. Anne Hathaway narrated the audioversion and did an excellent job capturing the character of Mia (as I pictured her). Queen Clarice was nothing like my idea of her (from Julie Andrews), but she was definitely more fun Meg Cabot's way. Definitely not Mary Poppins here. The plot was very teen-driven, but I enjoyed the break from intense plots. I'll definitely continue the series and see where it goes.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Fun, vastly different than the movie. I can't believe I have never read it, but am so glad I did. I like the book far better than the movie, which is saying a lot! Mia is an adorable character. What girl would not love finding out she is truly a princess??
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I remember reading this series when I was so young in high school, I remember finishing homework and pretending to go to bed to read until falling asleep and sometimes reading them during math class. My mom always got them to me since I loved the movie so much. Great series for teenagers and girls who love princesses.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A fun YA where ordinary fourteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis learns that she is a princess in a small European principality. At first this knowledge just makes her life harder, giving her one more thing to worry about on top of stress over flunking algebra, worrying that no boy will ever ask her out, and dealing with the mean girl at school. But eventually the things she learns as her grandmother helps her learn to "be" a princess also help her with her ordinary teen problems too. I thought the particulars of the princessness could have been more fleshed out, especially given that that was the premise, but the story was nice anyway. The book is full of pop culture references, and I wonder what a kid reading it today would make of them (it was published in 2000). Some of them made me stop and think now, fifteen years on, and I was the perfect age to have been aware of all of them at the time.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This book would be good to use for silent reading time and to discuss unexpected changes in life. I think students would like this book because everyone wants to wake up one day and be a princess.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This was a fun book, every bit as fun as the movie. Poor Mia discovers herself to be a princess and tries to cope with her American life in high school. It's a good deal of fun to listen to her thoughts.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Okay, so who has NOT seen the movie, The Princess Diaries? And, am I the only one in the world who did not know that this was a book? Because until I got the 4th book in the series in the mail the other day, I had absolutely no idea. This is also the first book I have read by Meg Cabot so, after hearing so many great things about her, I decided it was time to check it out.

    It is really hard to review a book when you had seen the movie. This is why I usually read the books first. Because, now, it is very hard for me to not compare the two, so be warned.

    So, in the book, Mia is only 14, not 15 like in the movie. And in the book, her father is still alive, unlike the movie. Very unsettling. At first, I found the diary format a little awkward because it goes back and forth between the diary entries and regular writing, but I was able to adjust to that and really enjoy the book. And I did enjoy it. While it was different from what I expected, that was not necessarily a bad thing. A lot of the major drama points were still there, just maybe a slightly different set of details to go with it. This really was a very interesting read, and now, tonight, I will have to re-watch the movie to compare and contrast a little more. Seriously, if you didn't know about the book, pick it up.