Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules
《遜咖日記: 葛瑞不能說的祕密》
 
閱讀Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules，
就像看一部充滿笑點的電影，
文字對白極其有趣，
搭配文字的漫畫趣味十足。
閱讀這本書，
充份體會閱讀樂在其中的感受，
好幸福!在這本書中作者對Greg Heffley一家人有更多的著墨，
也成了本書中的最佳賣點及笑點：
   Greg Heffley的哥哥只愛玩樂器，不愛做功課。書中誇張描述他打字的速度：
    Rodrick went in the computer room after dinner, and you could
hear him typing about one letter a minute. (p.48)
Rodrick有次要交英語科報告，平時Rodrick的作業一向由他爸爸代勞。但是這一次他媽媽不准他插手，堅持由Rodrick自己動手做。但是他爸爸就是看不慣，於是:
    Dad waited for Mom to go to bed, and then he typed Rodrick's whole paper for him...(p.49)
    Greg Heffley的弟弟Manny超級愛揭他的瘡疤，神奇到可以告他兩年前的狀，Manny看到了Greg Heffley打破了玻璃門，但是那時Manny還不會說話。
因此Greg Heffley心中大驚：
    So after Manny started talking, I had to worry about all the bad things he saw me do when he was a baby. (p.103)
可見Greg Heffley不只在學校吃不開，在家也是處處碰壁，不像哥哥備受父母
寬容，弟弟則是備受寵愛。
    書中的最後是Rodrick參加冬季才藝秀(the Winter Talent Show)，狀況百出，Greg Heffley的媽媽超級搞笑，反客為主，搶了鏡頭，Rodrick的明星夢也宣告結束。Rodrick怪Greg Heffley不幫他錄影才會讓他媽媽把事情搞得亂七八糟，於是Rodrick終於氣不住，向朋友抖出Greg Heffley暑假裡做的一件不能告人知的秘密...(p.p.204-215)，有趣的故事也進入尾聲。 

書中的俚語用的很道地：   
1. I could tell the sound of Rodrick typing was driving Dad totally
bananas. (p.48)
(drive somebody bananas=drive somebody crazy) 

2. Mom and Dad didn't have any evidence that I was the one who did it, so they couldn't peg it on me, and I was in the clear.
 (p.103) 
(in the clear=to be innocent)

3. Grandma has kept that note all these years, and she's STILL holding it over my head.
(hold something over someone's head:
to have knowledge of something about a person and to use that knowledge to control the person. )

閱讀Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules又是一個難忘的經驗，
期待下一本Diary of a Wimpy Kid了!