Rating: 
Summary: a really funny book
Review: I loved this book.It is well-written and makes you think that it is good to be a woman, even if you have no boyfriend.It is a perfect read for women,and there is laugh in every page.It describes the life of a woman who's trying to find a boyfriend,with her "crazy" mother and her best friends.It shows the race she does to make the man she likes notice her and also her attempts to lose weight and sto smoking so much and drinking so much alkohol.But all that are not easy.All the men she knows are either married or gay;her mother bothers her with many crazy ideas and her father wanrs help.And it is not so easy to live in London when you are at that age and not married.And it's not easy to find a boyfriend when you follow your friend's advice.It is a grat book to read any time, and it makes you feel better and laugh,no matter how difficult times you have.
Rating: 
Summary: Story is the life of a 20-something woman
Review: I bought the book because I enjoyed the movie. I found the movie had a better storyline and to be much funnier. In the movie, Bridget embodies every embarassing & disheartening moment a woman has ever had - poor public speeches, big mommy girdle underwear, getting cheated on. No one in real life has so many humiliating moments and you are glad she gets the good man in the end. In the book, Bridget is supposed to be in her 30s but her life resembles that of a woman in her 20s. By her 30s Bridget should have learned her lessons and started to get serious with her life. First, she is a total drunk. She should have outgrown her drunken sprees by her early 30s. She doesn't take her job/career seriously and is always late. Her apartment is a mess and she never has clean clothes. Her bank account hovers near 0. She dates losers with whom she has no possible future and she handles her relationships in an adolescent way. She is such a mess that I am shocked that sucessful men want anything to do with her. The movie Bridget was much more likeable than the book Bridget.
Rating:
Summary: You must read this one!
Review: I loved this book so very much. The author is a real talent. It inspires me to purchase a diary book and began to write it daily. I like the book the way that it features an ordinary woman who is not a novel-like perfect. She expresses her thoughts and feelings in the diary. The author has sense of humor too. I like the way Bridget counts units of alcohol consumption, calories and how many times she dials 1471. I read this book in both English and Thai versions. I highly recommend this book to everyone especially those who love to write diary. I bet you will read it more than one time.
Rating:
Summary: Helen Feilding - Genius
Review: Often in a womans life, there are certain situations that you get yourself into where you wish the ground would open up and swallow you whole! Poor Bridget Jones seems to have had many of these! I have never laughed out loud at a book so many times. My partner even started reading with me because he couldn't sleep with me laughing while reading it in bed. Both men and women will love this account of this 20/30 something's erratic love and career life. Shazza and Jude are carbon copies of my own friends! A Hilarious Read and Must Buy!!
Rating: 
Summary: Now I'm one of 'those' women...
Review: This book always intrigued me since it came out, but for awhile, I refused to read it. To me, it seemed the typical "Girly Novel", something women read while drying their nails. I was wrong. My urges outvoted my head and I bought the book. From the first page, I could not put it down...thw more I read, the faster I came to a terrible conclusion: I AM Bridget Jones. She IS me. The airheaded ways she sometimes goes about things, her over-reaction to life's problems, her genuine "womenness"...it's all me. I just don't smoke or drink like she does...But, the weight issues, yeah, right here--That's me! This book is very well written by a talented writer. I have since read the sequel and it is equally as good. Just follows like you never even changed books. Reading BJD is like a homecoming, like talking with an old friend...everyone needs a friend as crazy as Bridget! Get this book, read it more than once, and then make sure all of your friends read it, too.
Rating:
Summary: A Book for All Women - Singleton and Smug Marrieds!
Review: Such an excellent book - although I live halfway across the world, born & bred in Asia, I find it totally funny and sad and I could relate to it. I especially find it beautiful her strong staunch relationships with her friends who never let her down! Wish I had friends like that! A must read - and re-read it if you feel like your life's a complete mess.
Rating:
Summary: loveditloveditlovedit
Review: I read this as light reading over the summer, and read it again, then again. This was a very non-threatening book--not very long, no lengthy paragraphs, no large odd-sounding words (except for occassional British terminology)--and I picked it up randomly off of a library shelf. When I read it, and found out that it had been made into a movie, I just had to go see it.
Of course it wasn't as good. But it was good. I was also an avid Jane Austen fan, and the frequent overt references to Pride and Prejudice were funny and good at tying the plot together and giving a better perspective of what the author wanted the characters to seem like. I'm not quite sure about this cover...a little scary (the one I read had a woman writing in a diary on it). Anyway, the heroine, Bridget Jones, is a British woman feeling her biological clock tick--and feeling others feeling that tick for her. Her garulous mother and Smug Married acquaintences persist on ribbing her for not having a boyfriend, and don't even believe her when she finally gets one.
Bridget is drawn to her attractive yet irresponsible employer, Daniel Cleaver, and finds herself constantly bumping into Mark Darcy (get the name hint at all??), the dull divorcee barister that everyone is trying to shaft upon her. Think Ally McBeal and some of Meg Ryan's more neurotic roles. Bridget Jones is a normal, healthy woman obsessed with her weight, smoking and drinking habits, and self-help books. Social satire and hilarious situations abound. (it's much, much better than this review, I assure you:)
Rating:
Summary: Couldn't put it down til it was finished
Review: A gift from my aunt, she chose the perfect thing!
I loved it, I plan on reading it again. It was so
funny, and there were lots of little things about
Bridget that I could identify with!! I could hardly
put the thing down, and I found myself wanting to
say British phrases and talk with a British accent!
Very funny, very good for single girls of any age.
Rating:
Summary: Cheeky, laugh out loud fun!
Review: Loved the diary style format and caloric, cigarette and alcohol measurements with excuses of why each were over endulged. Couldn't put it down. Laugh out loud fun. Can't wait for the arrival of Helen Fieldings sequel.
Rating:
Summary: Men too will be laughing tears enjoying Bridget's Diary
Review: I usually read all the books my female friends recommend (well, at least I start reading them; as some are a just too singlemindedly feministic to enjoy). The 2 Bridget Jones Diaries I've read so far produced many floods of laughing tears. Her self irony and the funny-honest way she writes down her thoughts as well as whats happening to her are outstanding. She even managed, that my wife and myself keep using the "gaaah, gaaah, gaaah's", whenever something remotedly similar happens to us ... and just can't help laughing every time 'cause our minds fly back to Bridget .... :-)
|
