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Summary: Why would anyone choose to identify with Bridget?
Review: This is one of those dreadful books that is passed around the office by women who think of themselves as 'one of the girls'. Don't be fooled into identifying yourself with this novel; here's why: The few and rather flimsy reasons women think they identify with Bridget are that she's overweight, though the author is careful to slip in (lest you identify the character with her) between the exaggerations that this is only a matter of about ten pounds. Or else that Bridget is single, thirty-something, and feeling the societal pressures of settling down with a man. At worst, there's an association akin to being pulled in by hokey cigarette advertisements from the 1960's: hey ladies, you can smoke and drink, too: naughty equals cool. Fielding creates a false sense of sympathy for Bridget by positioning her in embarrassing situations in front of wealthy people. Yet Bridget moves too readily in those social circles she's meant to abhor. Not to mention that the author handles these situations rather obviously and clumsily. It's a transparent attempt to gain the reader as an ally and to let the author off the hook for when she slurps champagne at the novel's press release. (Really, isn't she more sophisticated than the sophisticated?) At least the show, Sex and the City is unapologetic about the fact that most women could not afford their lifestyle. It may be that the author is striking an ironic pose and believes this gives her credibility: hey, look, Pride and Prejudice: a man defines a woman: what's changed in over a hundred years? Or, wow, with our consumer culture, the character of Bridget does not so much resemble Elizabeth as she does Lydia. (Keep in mind that if she is writing with a sense of irony then she is insulting her fans.) The poor quality of the writing will not get her off the hook as far as any intelligent reader is concerned. The only reason Fielding wrote this book was to make money. Save yourself a wasted afternoon and find a more worthwhile cause to fund than the author's bar tab.
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!!!
Review: By far the most entertaining book I have ever read!!!
If, like me, you read light - hearted books for pleasure, you will love this book. I also thought the movie did it a lot of justice.
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Summary: Ding Dong! Great book!!!!
Review: Helen Fielding is wonderful! This is a definite read!!! I ride public transportation on the way to and from work--and I found myself laughing out loud many times! FAR better than the movie.
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Summary: It made a great film...
Review: I think I made the mistake of watching the film first, and therefore I was expecting to read the scenes that had made me laugh so hard in the film.If you are like me, then you might just be dissapointed because the book is quite different, and most of the things that happen in the film do not happen in the book. Having said that, the book is in my opinion fresh, funny in some parts and definetly a light and easy read. The characters are not totally believable, but you can still picture them quite well. As for Bridget.... I just kept wondering WHAT NOW?... there's a limit to how many stupid things a person can do... sometimes she made me laugh and I identified with her, but others I just felt pity.... I put three stars because I admit I liked the film better, and it made me laugh a lot more than the book.
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Summary: Better Than Ezra
Review: I loved this book. It reminded me so much of dating, even in American, and it's a lot smarter than Sex & the City!
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Summary: a woman for any decade
Review: Perhaps shes crushing the feminist hearts but i adore bridget, her constant compulisve writing down of various food intakes and cigarettes smoked as well as embarassing encounters and mortifying moments make this more than just a book.
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Summary: Dear Diary
Review: Bridget Jone's Diary is a romantic comedy about a single, chain smoking, British woman, by Helen Fielding. Throughout the entire book Bridget is trying to shed those extra pounds and is constantly lusting over the wrong guys, while she records her trials and tribulations of single life in her diary. This book will have you hooked as you go along with Bridget's dilemmas.
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Summary: HATE IT! HAE IT! HATE IT!
Review: As a 'Singleton' who wants to lose weight, I feel Helen Fielding has taken this issue too far - and instead of making Bridget funny, Ms. Feilding made her and her silly friends... Not only didn't I identify with Bridget and the situations she put herself in, but I also didn't find her & those situations funny / educating, etc. This is yet another one of those 'Single British around 30 Single Girl' stories that seem to flood us lately. This seems to be the most popular one, but I personally feel it's the worst of the bunch I've read (it certainly is the most un - original and least funny of them). I reccomend 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' to anyone who's interested in a better book - not only is Rebbeca Bloomwood a more believable character (even though all of these girls are a little over the top), but it certainly much funnier tha... little Bridget can ever hope to be.
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Summary: Hilarously Funny!
Review: This book is one of the best I've read in a long time. Read the book before you see the movie. In some ways,we can all relate to Bridget and her hilarous misadventures. Everyone should read this book.
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Summary: So-So
Review: I guess I'm one of the few people who didn't think this book was fall down hysterical or typical of what women experience in the dating world. Although it has some funny moments, it didn't keep my interest all the way through, and I ended up putting it down and picking it up over the span of a few weeks. I actually found the character to be more pitiful, than funny and couldn't help but think, who the heck would do all these stupid things??? I know it's just a book, but I think it's just so-so.
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