A pretty honest review, I like that. But let me wondering, if did you get to read the vol.2 "My Madder Fatter Diary"?! If you haven't, maybe you should. Just because it give us some kind of closure and also because makes a lot more sense than the first one. Like, I actually find out that you can pick up the pieces of where the tv show come from... and, even when you have to read the hideous nick names of their friends (I have to confess I had to skip them a couple of times), it is worth it. Specially after you'd already invested in the tv series and in the first book. Ill leave it to you! ;)