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Summary: Loved it. Was sorry it ended.
Review: Just the thing if you're looking for some light reading. This really is a laugh out loud book. Fielding captures in Bridget what every single woman has gone through or thought at some point in her life. If you're a Singleton then it definitely makes you feel that you're not alone in what you thought were some of your unique habits or quirks. Bridget has them all.The only problem I had with the book was it's Britishness. Luckily I've had a British boyfriend so I figured out rather quickly what the 9st2's meant, but I wonder how other Americans fared with this. I'm sure I would have enjoyed the book even more had I been familiar with the references to British personalities, TV shows, etc. Nevertheless, there is enough there to keep you grinning, laughing and turning the pages. I've also read the sequel, The Edge of Reason, and it's just as good. I'm hoping for more Bridget books.
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Summary: Oh Glorious Day, The Best Book Ever!
Review: What can I say, I loved this book and the sequel, but now I am ready for a third. Bridget Jones still has so much living to do and so many adventures to share. I love the characters: Bridget, Mark Darcy, her friends, even Daniel Cleaver, the [villian]! ...
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Summary: Not Bad, but Disappointing!
Review: After hearing many people rant and rave about how funny the book was or how hilarious or dramatic or how easy it was to relate to etc. I was very disappointed when I read it. I expected a fantastically brilliant piece of work but it seemed to be like every other book out there written in diary form. It was very average and the characters seemed a bit too unrealistic. There are much more funnier etc. "diaries" than this one. Even though those characters are also unrealistic, they still provided more entertainment.
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Summary: Excellent portrait of a very flawed person
Review: Literature is filled with "anti-heroes". Main characters who have flaws, or anti-establishment leanings that sometimes adds to their likeability, sometimes not. But these character traits are usually window-dressing to more fill out a character that is doing SOMETHING ELSE to further the plot. This book is wonderful in that the whole purpose of the book is to not only mention the flaws, and highlight the flaws, but make them endearing, and the whole purpose of the story. For all of us who have ever made an excuse not to go to the gym, or why we haven't given up a particular vice (fill in yours here), or can't put an itenerary together to save one's life, here is our how-to-do-it manual, written by the expert. Yes, the movie does have a chick-book story of which guy will she get, or will she get one at all. We see how the workplace is such a contributor to one's social life. And how one's family competes with work as a stabilizing factor. But this is all just ordinary plot to hang on what the book is all about. Which is, her hilarious, carefully laid out plans for self improvement that never quite seem to get accomplilshed. Even more hilarious is the fact that some of them never even get started. The device to list weight, calories, drinks and cigarettes, then put them in perspective in her own mind are a riot. I never knew a drinking binge could be so good for you!
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Summary: A Very funny book
Review: My Mum had read this book and said it was trash .I picked it up and started reading and i was hooked ,at the start it is quite depressing.As it came to the middle it got funnier and funnier . I thought some of her friends were really weird such as tom the gay eightys pop star.Some of it was ending it became very hard to understand all the different relationships . It is still a really good book and the film was just as funny . You need to read this book.
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Summary: very funny
Review: very well written, with a lot of British slang
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Summary: Cleverly written.
Review: This is not the story of a self-obsessed whiner, but rather an honest woman attempting to find love and happiness. Her roller coaster dieting, attempts to quit smoking, and self-conscious wit keep the reader intrigued from beginning to end. If you like books like the "Ya-Ya Sisterhood," and "Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing," you'll love this one.
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Summary: A pretty successful remake`
Review: I enjoyed the book, but thought it smacked of "Sheila Levine is dead and living in New York City", a book I read in the 70's.
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Summary: If you don't relate, you should give back an X chromosome
Review: Have you ever wondered how your crush felt? Thought your life would be perfect if you could only lose a few more pounds? Fell into bed with a guy too soon? Looked like a moron during a presentation? Been consoled by your outrageous but loving friends? Congratulations -- you're Bridget Jones. I suspect most single women are -- except for those who are always completely confident, model-thin and intellectually dazzling. (I don't know those women. Do you?) Told in diary form, this hilarious (and quick-reading) book tells a "Pride and Prejudice"-like story of love and mishaps. Bridget works in a go-nowhere publishing job. She's madly in lust with office scoundrel Daniel and despises Mark Darcy, the divorced lawyer her mother keeps trying to set her up with. Along the way, Bridget drinks and smokes too much, finds a new job that may or may not be better than her old one, helps her parents patch up their own problems, and watches her weight fluctuate wildly. In short: It's just like real life.
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Summary: Loved it loved it loved it!
Review: This is the watershed book. It's the book that started the British-girl-30ish-singleton craze. I loved every page. I (along with millions of others) totally related to the character. It is one of my top ten favorites of all time.
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