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How to Be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.! (Hardcover)

by Meg Cabot (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: HarperTempest (Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060880120
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060880125
  • Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14.5 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 703,971 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Has promise but doesn't quite live up to standards, 27 May 2007
By Ms. MacNeill (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to be Popular: . . . when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.! (Hardcover)
There's nothing really wrong with "How to be Popular", but at the same time, there is little to make it stand out from Cabot's other writing. Combine a pop-culture-savvy teenage girl with an attractive male friend and an unusual mission (in this case, Steph Landry plans to become popular by following the advice of an outdated book), and multiply by high school, and this all becomes fairly run-of-the-mill fare.

Steph lacks the quirkiness of Cabot's previous heroines, and I never felt that her motivation to become popular felt consistent. The book Steph takes her advice from doesn't ring true either (the ideas it gives are too unrealistic to be believable), and the "excerpts" from it dispersed throughout the novel weren't amusing enough to warrant their inclusion. Even worse, all of the plots were predictable and flimsy - a particularly imbecilic monkey would be able to tell from the outset that Steph would eventually realise that she was in love with her best friend. Cabot has been covering the same old ground for her past few books and it has been getting tiring - she is talented enough to branch out beyond conventional romantic comedies, and I really wish that she would show more variety in her writing.

In spite of these criticisms, it is a fairly steady book with, as I said in the first paragraph of this review, nothing mind-bogglingly awful about it. Cabot's heroines are by and large excellent role-models for teenage girls, with Steph being no exception. The prose, too, is as delightful as always (although I am looking forward to coming back to her books in ten years time and seeing how dated the contemporary references make them!). The book certainly had its moments - I especially enjoyed the character of Darlene, the pretty, friendly girl who pretends to be stupid to get her own way. The relationship between Steph and her grandfather was also a highlight.

Bottom line? I wouldn't give this book to encourage someone to read Cabot for the first time, but established fans should be able to find something in it to enjoy.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Are You Popular ?, 24 Aug 2006
By Pink Minx "pink minx" (Staffs England) - See all my reviews
It can be difficult not to let one bad incident over shadow your life. Even more difficult if like Steph Landry, a certain mishap with a Red Super Big Gulp means that your name is a byword (literally!) for all that is awkward. This has put a dent in Steph's social standing for the last 5 years leaving her with 2 friends, a whole community mocking her, Oh and a whopping crush on the most popular boy in School.
Steph decides to take matters into her own hands on finding an old book in an attic called "HOW TO BE POPULAR". With the new school year Steph's plan unfolds. But as Steph soon finds out it's now becoming popular that's hard - It's staying that way!
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Read it if you have time to kil... , 8 April 2007
This review is from: How to be Popular: . . . when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.! (Hardcover)
Not Meg's best... it just didn't contain that girl fun and excitement present in most of her other books. Steph is sick of having everyone hate her just because she spilt a drink on her then best friend who is the most popular girl in school. People in her town now regularly use the phrase "Don't pull a Steph Landry" and "you're such a Steph." She's in love with her neighbour and childhood friend but only really realises it and acts on it in the end, she's too preoccupied with becoming popular to notice beforehand. The neighbour is also her grandfather's fiancé's grandson. Anything else? Nah, that pretty much sums it up... oh except for the fact that there is the thing when the most popular guy in school kisses her... who she did have a crush on until she realised the whole being in love with her neighbour and childhood friend Jason thing.

Basically... slightly entertaining... but only read it if you have time to kill.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Formulaic and average
If you're a real Meg Cabot fan, you will probably get something out of this book but to me it shows how Meg Cabot is churning out less and less good titles. Read more
Published 17 months ago by N. Preskey

4.0 out of 5 stars Would probably make a good film
And maybe that's why in places this just doesn't quite gell but it's entertaining.

Five years ago Steph Landry spilt a Big Red Gulp on Lauren Moffat's white skirt,... Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2007 by Wyvernfriend

3.0 out of 5 stars not gonna win any awards but still enjoyable
not the best book that i have read and its obviously not gonna win any awards but for what it is still enjoyable to pass and afternoon so i felt some of the reviews are a bit... Read more
Published on 13 Nov 2007 by Lindymck

2.0 out of 5 stars Okish Book By Meg

I am a rather large fan of Meg's and have many of her books. I brought this book a couple of months back for a good read and was rather annoyed in the end. Read more
Published on 24 Aug 2007 by Lilly Potter

3.0 out of 5 stars okay-ish
I was really excited when I picked up this book, as Meg Cabot is a brilliant author for teenage girls, who like a bit of romance, adventure, and social appeal in their novels... Read more
Published on 2 May 2007 by A. Merrington

1.0 out of 5 stars What a HUGE waste of my money!!!
This book is very disappointing and the title is very misleading. Many people (as did I) would read the title of this book, which is called 'How to be Popular' and imagine it to... Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2007 by Melanie Baxter

5.0 out of 5 stars Courtesy of Teens Read Too
If you've ever heard the phrase "Way to pull a Steph Landry!," you wouldn't be alone. Pretty much everyone who attends Bloomville High in the heart of Greene County, Indiana,... Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2006 by TeensReadToo

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