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The Princess Diaries
by Meg Cabot
I had this book on cassette tape and listened to it likely WELL over 100 times between the ages of 8-13. The audiobook was narrated by Anne Hathaway herself and she does a fantastic job, totally captures Mia’s innocence and sarcasm equally well. I think I loved this book so much because it made it seem like this fairytale could happen to me — personally the one thing I couldn’t agree with Mia about was that the whole princess situation was a bad thing. I thought she was crazy for rejecting it. Now that I’m older I can think a little more critically about why the news and implications would be so scary to hear.
In general I think the movie stands on its own two feet even though it veers a lot from the details in the book. Anne is charming as Mia, Julie Andrews is Julie Andrews, etc. BUT I think it would have been fun to play the books version of Queen Clarice, because she is NOT Mary Poppins!! (Speaking of which, Julie Andrews’ Mary Poppins was also not at ALL like the character in the book!!)
But anyway, this book is a huge part of my childhood and I would like to reread it or better yet, re-listen. I would put money on my being able to quote some of the more memorable passages word for word. Even know I can hear the Mia saying “that’s right, my grandmother called me a hooker”. Classic.
In general I think the movie stands on its own two feet even though it veers a lot from the details in the book. Anne is charming as Mia, Julie Andrews is Julie Andrews, etc. BUT I think it would have been fun to play the books version of Queen Clarice, because she is NOT Mary Poppins!! (Speaking of which, Julie Andrews’ Mary Poppins was also not at ALL like the character in the book!!)
But anyway, this book is a huge part of my childhood and I would like to reread it or better yet, re-listen. I would put money on my being able to quote some of the more memorable passages word for word. Even know I can hear the Mia saying “that’s right, my grandmother called me a hooker”. Classic.