A Google user
The most horrible piece of "literature" I've ever scorched my eyes with.
An obvious rip off of Diary of a Wimpy Kid that lacks imagination and creativity of any sort. While Diary of a Wimpy Kid is funny because it is realistic (even though it's portrayed with stick figures), the author of Dork Diaries misses the whole point and succeeds in creating a disgusting pile of absolute crap. If you are looking for something interesting, amusing, or even educational you're far better off watching a good episode of Spongebob Squarepants.
If you look at the five star reviews you can see they're all by complete morons who know nothing about literature and would probably die if they had to read a box car children book. Dork Diaries is an insult to girls, pretending it's the "girl version" of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while it's literally not worth one twelfth of them.
The girl who went to a new school, met the popular girl, likes a boy ,blah, blah, blah, crap. Can anyone say, I've heard this story nine hundred times already? Because I certainly have. I can name 10 stories off the bat and this one offers nothing special IN THE SLIGHTEST.
This book was obviously only made so the author could get a few bucks while DoWK was popular and idiotic suckers would buy it.
I can only see MAYBE reading it if you're really bad at reading and want to improve, but if that's the case I strongly recommend something more worth your time.
The only people who would like it would like it for the theme (Nikki is supposedly random and hyper just like everyyyy stupid middleschooler girl thinks they are and they trick themselves into thinking Nikki is like them).
A Google user
Dork Diaries is a really great read for girls in middle school. 6 out of 6 people loved the book. They all loved the humor, the doodles on each page, and how girls from middle school can relate to not fitting in. This book is about a 14 year old girl named Nikki Maxwell. Nikki is a talented young artist but that's kid of a problem because normally she spends all her money on art supplies and camp, now she really really wants to get an iphone to help her fir in more. Her mom refuses get her one, so instead she buys her a journal. Along the rough road through 8th grade she confronts crushes, mean girls, friend drama, art competitions, popularity, school, and with all that she has a big art competition against the pretty, mean and popular McKenzie. McKenzie will do anything to humiliate Nikki, and flirts with Brandon (her crush who is the one boy who even notices her) when ever Nikki even gets near her. I recommend this for everybody, you can't put this book down and could probably read it over the weekend. This book was written by Rachel Renee Russel, Rachel put both her youngest daughter's, Nikki, and her own experiences in middle school. They also both did the illustrations in the book. The next book should be coming out about June 10th, she is currently working on the 3rd and 4th book so stay tuned. : )
A Google user
If there's a solution to taking all the cliche from The Clique and Gossip Girl, rolling it into one, and publishing it, this is what happened. This...this FAILURE of a book, this DISAPPOINTMENT, was drowned in a sea of cliche, washed up on an island of abomination, and rescued by a ship of cheesiness. I'm not even trying to joke; when I'm mad, it's not my habit to make jokes. There was product-placement on every page: iPhone, Rachael Ray, the Tyra Banks Show, THE LIST JUST DOESN'T END! And neither will your seething anger and disappointment when you read this EXCUSE of work.