This is a discussion of the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway" based I created this discussion to discuss the new book.
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My review of the book [CONTAINS MANY SPOILERS]:
I actually liked the book because it was relateable to me because:
1. I have flown a lot in my life, and since the book includes a lot about flight travel, I can relate to a lot of it having experienced a lot of that before. I fly out for Thanksgiving most years, because I live in Colorado, USA and all my relatives except my aunt and uncle on my moms side live out of state of Colorado in a state that is in or near the east coast of the USA, and the last three years I took a 1-2 week trip to the Catalunya part of Spain which includes the city of Barcelona, all trips being prior to the recent protests, police violence and votes over Catalon independence, and had to fly to get to Spain. I also dealt with a delayed flight once before. Also I mainly fly with United Airlines since my dad flies a lot for business and mainly uses United Airlines and has lots of frequent flyer miles with them that he mainly uses to pay for the more expensive flights that we take each year, but have flown with Southwest Airlines a few times before, so I can relate to plane flight scenarios from more then one airline.
2. Jeff Kinney made the book have as much crazy scenarios in it as he could fit in the book. Although some of the scenarios seemed a little hard to believe, like Manny thinking the conveyor belt was a ride or the kid somehow messing with a button and releasing all the fences creating the lines at the airport, most of the scenarios could have happened, except for a few, such as the ones I had used as examples. I never assumed the conveyor belts were rides when I was a little kid from all the memores I have of flying as a kid, which I did once a year, for most years, having flown out to Aspen, Colorado to ski before moving to Colorado, even though I'd been to Disneyland a few times before, because I was born in Los Angeles, California and moved to Colorado when I was 6 years old and visited a few times since, and on one of those trips I visited Disneyland, and knew what amusment park style rides were like. Even having seen amusment park rides and been on them, I never assumed the conveyor belt was a ride, and certainly couldn't fit in the ride, and when I was small enough to, either had never flown until I was to big, or was to young to even know what a conveyor belt was. As for the kid messing with the button, the button would probably not be placed in the middle of all the ropes/fences and probably be accesable to just employees, and having been to many airports across the USA and the aiprort in Barcelona, Spain I don't recall ever seing any electronicly or button controlled ropes/fences, and only the manual kind that you have to stretch/extend he rope out like a tape measure to connect to the poles that hold the rope in place and off the ground.
However, the scenarios of the spider or the overcrowded airport on one of the busiest days of the year seems a bit more belieavable, as I've seen spiders all over my house over the years and although I've never dealt with an airport so overcrowded that the lines are full to the max, I have seen pretty full airports before that were kind of close to the airport scenario Greg dealt with.
3. The book didn't have the interesting wording of previous books, but that's probably because the book is about a family vacation Greg takes, and has a bigger emphasis on the crazy scenarios of the plot. There is not much room for interesting words from Greg with so much crazy stuff going on, on his vacation, especially when a lot of the crazy stuff freaked him out, e.g the spider, or effected him, e.g the wet sock puddle.
4. Although there was few appearances of previous characters outside the Heffley family, the book was about a family vacation that the Heffley family took, not about staying at home and hanging out with friends. The only way for friends to appear in a book all about a family vacation is either to see the friends at the airport, on vacation, or to use a lot of flashbacks or mentions of stuff back home which would make less room for talking about the vacation. This is a family vacation, not a stay at home, hang out with previous characters outside the family kind of book, and there is little room for them to appear. Rowley on makes an appearance because Greg talks about how his vacation might be a chance to make Rowley feel jealous of not getting to do such a fun thing over summer, after also mentioning how hard it is to sound glad for someone when they did something fun over the summer unless it didn't end up so well in the end. The pig makes no appearance which is fine with me, but that's likely since taking a pet on the plane is possible, but probably not easy. I've never taken a pet on a plane flight before so I cannot relate, but assume it is harder then just taking people on a plane.
Considering all of this, I actually liked the book, even though a decent amount of people didn't and would disagree with my opinion. I like the book mostly because I can relate to it in many ways.