That's not to say that Lisa is a total stick in the mud. She's rather complex. She can be completely serious. But she's also known to have teamed with her brother Bart and gone completely bonkers begging father Homer to go to a water park, visit Itchy & Scratchy Land and install a backyard swimming pool.
Every Simpsons Library of Wisdom book has a recurring theme. For Bart, its mischief. For bartender Moe, it's self-loathing and a surprising devotion for little Maggie Simpson. With Lisa, her theme seems to be high brow culture mixed with a crush on any teen superstar named Corey and a desperate desire to own a pony.
There was one part of this book that I absolutely objected to. It was a look at artifacts from the Lisa Simpson presidency. But Lisa's administration takes place in the future. How could they be here now when you this book very much reads like the scrapbook of Lisa when she's 8-years old. I know that this was a work of fiction. But having such an anachronism really makes that OCD area of my brain itch like a bad case of poison ivy!
Not my favorite volume of the series. Not terrible. But it's got a lot of droll, high brow references. If I was going for such, I'd watch a marathon of Frasier and those bourgeois references are why I couldn't watch it. Maybe I'll keep it. Maybe I'll sell it for some valuable trade credit. I'm really going have to think on this a while...
Rating: 6 out of 10 stars.
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