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Summary: way too close to the mark for comfort! hilarious!
Review: i know, i know, it's not as lofty a pursuit as jane austin, but hardly was jane austin in her day. can relate to bridget jones way too much and too funny for words. i admit it, despite my better judgement (i.e. a friend made me do it!) i saw the movie first... and loved it. had wanted desperately to read the book because of friends recommendations, but somehow didn't have the time (or was i too lazy?) ... absolutely hilarious and now have read both the book and its fabulous sequel too many times than i care to acknowledge. as shallow as it may seem, plight of knowing every last calorie count for even obscure food, cigarette count, and weird friend advice hit straight home... remarkably with a wit and humor very few couldn't find zany and witty. couldn't put this book down. have made nearly every last person i know read the book and everyone agrees that bridge is a winner. wonderfully written, absolutely human, funny and endearing... bridget, we need a third book! warning: finishing this book and sequel will leave you searching stacks of books for similar novels... fear that, very few of them actually live up to bridget.
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Summary: could not relate to this book...
Review: ...even though I'm also a single woman in her 30s. Not all of us are that insecure. Bridget should get over it already. Some of us do have other things to worry besides weight and drinking too much (which I think is a serious problem). And none my married friends are anything like hers (thank God). Is this how society sees single women? Is this how I'm supposed to act...because I'm single?
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Summary: A great quick read
Review: I have seen both the movie, and read the book. I can honestly say this is one of those few that the movie and the book compliment each other well. The book is a quick and enjoyable read. This book entertains while it helps us see that our personal faults, or even hang ups really aren't all that bad. I enjoyed the book a great deal.
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Summary: A refreshing way of describing a hard and unjust reality...
Review: I am married but deal (because of job) with many single women. I also know the world is made for "normal-married" people. Most singles over 35 I know live Bridget's nightmare. Fielding's is a refreshing way of describing a hard and unjust reality.
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Summary: Wonderful! Smashing! Fabulous!
Review: Just when I thought that nobody understood what it was like to be a single girl in a world filled with Smug Marrieds, along comes our gal Bridget Jones! Helen Fielding has captured the heart and soul of singletons everywhere with this witty and thoroughly engaging novel. I hardly put it down at all once I started reading it. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for some great tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek humor and great singleton emotions abound!
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Summary: It made me want to yell "Bastards!" over and over again.
Review: This book belongs on your bookshelf. Oh joy. Oh happiness of happiness. I laughed out loud many many times, this is a great non-intellectual book to read late a night right before you drift off to sleep. The way Bridget knows the exact number of calories in every type of food you could think of but does not know her times tables is just too funny. I love the girl, she's completely into all of that self-improvement stuff that no normal being can possibly pull off. The way she constantly fails at her New Year's Resolutions reminds me so much of myself. I heard there's a sequal. Hmmmm... that should be interesting. Can't wait to pick it up.
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Summary: Calling all girly girls...
Review: I loved this book! This is one of those, I just got dumped and all boys suck, kind of reads. You need a glass of wine, chocolate, and your favorite blanket to read this one. Made me proud to be a strong, independent, beautiful woman. Bridget goes through so many life altering experiences, all the while making sure she counts her calories. Hilarious! I highly recommend every woman between 18 and 35 read this immediately!
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Summary: Magnificent book - so sweet and realistic and adorable!
Review: I first saw the movie, which I loved, and thought that the book - as usual - would be even better. And it is! It's great. I don't even think the movie is too big a spoiler at all. Bridget is precisely the sort of girl that ANY woman should be able to relate to. She comes off as the worst version of herself at percisely the wrong moments, even though she means to be increadible as she really is -- a feeling OH-so-familiar to just about everyone i know :)I did begin to get concerned about the more or less blatent rip off from Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice that is just all over the book (c'm on! Mr. Darcy?!), but it REALLY didn't bother me one bit. The book is magical. Read it! You won't be sorry! :)
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Summary: has anyone NOT read this book?
Review: Like so many others, I've read Bridget Jones. Both before and afterwords, I read other books about twenty-something single neurotic women. Since I actually don't smoke incessantly and am completely non-weight obsessed, many of Bridget's qualities were more annoying than anything. But you just gotta love Bridget no matter what. In the movie, this is played out full-force, making Bridget more loveable than she is in the book. As heroines go, Bridget is adorable, light, and eternally optimistic. If you're looking for something a little darker, more realistic vision of loneliness, check out In the Drink instead by Kate Christenson. But if you're going to read the book and see the movie, the rule of book first does apply here. The movie really just picks up on Bridget's sunnier, more laughable qualities.
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Summary: Extremely funny
Review: I like the way it was written (as a diary). I couldn't stop laughing. I can't wait to see the movie and read the sequel.
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