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How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend (edition 2011)

by Gary Ghislain (Author)

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Fourteen-year-old David, the son of a famous French psychologist, falls in love with Zelda, a new patient who believes she is from outer space, and soon they are tearing through Paris in search of her chosen one, Johnny Depp, so that she can take him to her home planet, Vahalal.
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Title:How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend
Authors:Gary Ghislain (Author)
Info:Chronicle Books (2011), 208 pages
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Teen fiction. This was like one of those goofy teen guy movies with lots of girls running around with very little clothes on, and guys making fools of themselves while trying to impress them--if you're into those movies, this is the book for you! But if you're not so much, then no, I wouldn't recommend this (and especially not if you're going to be offended about the boys killing frogs for fun). I'm one of those people that has to sit through the whole movie (even if it's not very good) to find out what happens--fortunately, with books, you can just skip to the end. This wasn't bad; I just had better things to read. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
On the whole, I thought this would better as a graphic novel. An amusing, fast read about a fourteen year old boy on the run with a beautiful escaped psychiatric patient who thinks she is an alien and must find Johnny Depp to complete her mission. Pushes suspension of disbelief past the breaking point - all flash and hormones and very little substance. I predict teen readers will love it and it will be made into a movie. ( )
  memccauley6 | May 3, 2016 |
How I Stole Johnny Depp's Alien Girlfriend by Gary Ghislain would make a good double header with Stuck on Earth by David Klass. Both take troubled teenagers who have stories about being aliens. Rather than making their claims a metaphor for deeper feelings of not fitting, the plot plays out straight up.

David Gershwin's father is a psychologist. His current patient is a trouble teenager, Zelda, who claims to be a warrior from space, genetically programmed to procreate with a single human male — Johnny Depp. Yep — Johnny Depp. There are a couple problems — she's in France and he could be anywhere in the world, depending on his filming schedule.

David ends up on the run with Zelda, for a madcap adventure through France. It's as wacky an adventure as The Fifth Element but for tween readers. It's a short, fun read. I enjoyed every single page. It was one of the rare books that I was actually sad to see end. ( )
  pussreboots | Feb 27, 2014 |
I was given this book on a tour of Chronicle Books in San Francisco that I took with Lenore and several other bloggers. I was immediately drawn to the book because of it’s great hitchhiker-esque cover and fabulous title.

I began reading How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend at a theme park. I finished half of the book in the few hours at the park taking in the looks of disbelief that someone could have fun reading in a place with so much to do. I don’t do coasters people. However I think the carnival music and massive amounts of people floating around me on the super warm spring day added to the ambiance of reading this book.

How I Stole Johnny Depp’s Alien Girlfriend is everything you think it will be from the title. We have fourteen year old French David who is schooled in the ways of love and mental illness staying with his dad at his house in the countryside when Zelda shows up. Zelda is very violent and believes she is from another planet and needs to find her mate (who turns out to be Johnny Depp of course) before time runs out and her key to her home planet is lost forever.

At first David thinks she is interesting although crazy and he spends his time trying to get her to admit she is just another chick in love with Johnny Depp. As time goes on however David begins to believe Zelda’s claims and becomes her Pudin (helper sounds like Pudding) and the book takes off at a break-neck pace to the conclusion.

We meet some incredibly interesting characters along the way. David’s Mom who is the atypical French Dragon Woman stereotype who is incredibly violent to her boyfriend and David himself. David’s step sister who was thrown out of the house at sixteen by Dragon Mother. Aliens from Zelda’s planet who failed and lost their key home.

This book is fast paced, fun and a great comedic sci fi for younger readers. I can’t wait to buy a finished copy and read it all over again. ( )
  Bookaliciouspam | Sep 20, 2013 |
It was a really extremely good story and had a great plot and moral to the story. I read this book because of the title.
1 vote edspicer | Apr 28, 2013 |
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Fourteen-year-old David, the son of a famous French psychologist, falls in love with Zelda, a new patient who believes she is from outer space, and soon they are tearing through Paris in search of her chosen one, Johnny Depp, so that she can take him to her home planet, Vahalal.

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(from the back of the book) David Gershwin's summer is about to take a turn for the weird.  When his dad's new patient Zelda tells him she's from outer space and on a quest to take Johnny Depp back to her planet, he knows he should run away screaming.  But with one look from her mean, green eyes, David's hooked, and soon he's leaping across rooftops, running from police, and stealing cars just to stay by her side.  He might not be a typical hero, but David's going to get the girl even if it takes him to the ends of the earth - or beyond.
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