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Summary: Quite Entertaining!
Review: "The Devil Wears Prada" deals with Andrea who worked as an assistant for Miranda, the prominent editor in chief for Runaway, a fashion magazine. It was the first job Andrea landed after graduating from college and she was hoping this would be a stepping stone for her to work for The New Yorker. Unfortunately for Andrea, Miranda was terrible to work for, as she was arrogant, bossy, demanding, and act like she had to right to call her assistants at anytime. Soon, working for Miranda consumed Andrea's life and she began neglecting her family, her boyfriend and her bestfriend. She had no time for anyone and was constantly stressed out.I think "The Devil Wears Prada" is quite entertaining and it provides insights (especially since the author herself worked at the highly popular magazine) into the world of fashion magazines where wearing the right stuff (such as Prada, Gucci) is a must for every employee. The entire book basically deals with Andrea job at Runaway and don't expect anything more. Even though many chick lits deal with fashion magazines, this one in particular deals with fashion in detail.
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Summary: Fun, light read
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. Written in the vein of The Nanny Diaries, it is an insider's look at the stress-filled, not-so-glamourous world of fashion magazines. The protagonist, Andrea, is an aspiring writer who dreams of working at The New Yorker and is willing to give up a year of her life to tortuous servitude for the supremely self-involved editor of fictional Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly. She becomes the junior assistant to Miranda and soon finds that her life will be lived for this lunatic for the next 12 months.
She is at her beck and call 24 hours a day for the most mundane and twisted things you can think of. In the meantime, she begins to neglect her family, burgeoning alcoholic best friend, Lily, and too-perfect boyfriend, Alex. Like The Nanny Diaries, you won't believe the things that Andrea is required to do for her boss in THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. It's a fun summer read with a predictable ending, however you will still find yourself rooting for Andrea and cheering when she finally stands up for herself.
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Summary: One of the best!!!!
Review: When I started reading this book I could not put it down, it takes me out of my little house in the middle of Oklahoma to the busy streets of New York City, and the busy life of Andrea. When reading this book it helps you escape. It also makes you wander if you would put up with the same stuff that Andrea does for all the perks that she gets. This book is so good I wish I could find another book that Lauren has written because I am sure it will be as interesting as this one was I would tell everyone to read this book if they are interested in fashion and the inner workings of upper-class living.
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Summary: Lighten up, reviewers!
Review: Lauren Weisberger, I hope you read this. Your book is terrific. I've published 5 books and thousands of articles -- only another writer would know that you don't need to be grammatically correct everywhere to establish character and mood and plot. Lighten up, reviewers! The book is funny, especially so for us "escapees" who grew up in NYC and now live elsewhere and can laugh at the absurdities, and relate to some of them. Many of the reviews that criticized Ms. Weisberger's writing style are themselves riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. And an Ivy League education does not a writer make, pardon the ungrammatical sentence. I loved The Devil Wears Prada.
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Summary: Satisfying Like Fattening Clam Chowder
Review: Weisberger provides the reader an amusing if not painful insight in the world of fashion. Like uncontrollably glancing at a car wreck, the reader cannot help but follow Andrea's midadventures in providing for every silly need of her sadistic boss, Miranda Priestly. Though at times the heroine seems to be annoying in her narrow minded drive to get the recommendation from Miranda that will promise her any future job she wants, one should wonder what they would do if they were in Andrea's shoes. She is not the perfect herione. Despite occasionally forgetting her family and freinds while working for Miranda, her ambition is aspiring. From beginning to end, you stick with Andrea hoping that she will get fired for her own good but also hope that her patience and endurance will pay off. Very entertaining. **Give yourself extra points if you recognize the designer names mentioned in the book.
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Summary: NOTHING ABOUT PRADA AND A LOT OF CELL PHONES PARANOIA
Review: HAVING WORKED IN NYC IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY FOR NEAR TWO DECADES I FOUND THIS BOOK BORING. THE CENTRAL CHARACTER AND NARRATOR IS A PATHETIC WANNABE IN A WORLD AS COMPETITIVE AND DEMANDING, BUT AT THE SAME TIME FASCINATING AS THE FASHION WORLD IS.
A WORLD THAT THE CHARACTER "AHN-DRE-AH," DOESN'T EVEN CARE FOR. IN REALITY ANY JOB IN NYC IS STRESSFUL, AND SPECIALLY FOR THE SPOIL CHARACTER OF THIS BOOK THAT IS LUCKY TO HAVE EXPERIENCE HER FIRST JOB IN SUCH A PRIVILEGE AND UNDESERVING POSITION. THE ONLY PORPOISE FOR MISS WEINBERGER IN THIS BAD WRITTEN BOOK IS TO TRASH MRS. WINTOUR.
NOTHING ABOUT PRADA AND A LOT OF CELLULAR PHONE PARANOIA FOR A SMALL TOWN GIRL.
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Summary: Fun, Funny though Insubstantial
Review: "The Devil Wears Prada" is a fun read for readers into chick lit. Light, fluffy: it doesn't take much to get through it. If you have ever picked up Vogue or Bazaar, you will get a kick out of the behind the scenes description at a fictional fashion magazine.
The story is simple: Andrea Sachs, a recent graduate of Brown and an aspiring writer, takes a "once in a lifetime" job as an assistant to the famous (and infamous) Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway magazine. Miranda is the ultimate boss from hell-and human from hell-whose outrageous demands and bizarre habits drive our heroine insane. The book basically chronicles one incident (tracking down Harry Potter books before publication and sending them to Paris) after another. Most are very funny.
However, other than a serious of very funny fictional anecdotes, there is little else to this book. There really is no plot, zero character development and no insight. The author never really questions why or how Miranda turned into a she-devil and tells you absolutely nothing about the other fashionistas who work alongside her in slavish devotion to the magazine. The other characters-a saintly boyfriend, an alcoholic roommate, a snaky hot shot writer-are all one dimensional.
Still, if you're on a hot beach this summer-and you don't need to be challenged-you could do a lot worse than "The Devil Wears Prada."
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Summary: ...
Review: i loathe this book! it was given to me as a gift and unfortunatley it's like watching a train wreck - no matter how much i don't want to read it or continue, i have to just for my own sense of accomplishment. it's is such a contrived piece of rubbish that i am embarrassed to be seen reading it. the main character tries so hard to come across as this do-gooder when all you want to do is call her out on what a hypocrite she is. i think the author is trying to project what she wants to be into the spineless little fashionista character she has not so craftly designed in this "novel" (re: laughing).
and just when you thought it was over with the book, i have heard that there is a movie in the works. yikes!!! stop the insanity.
for a really good read, check out the dive from claussen's pier or the corrections.
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Summary: Nanny Diaries in the fashion world
Review: It was humorous and the characters interesting, but the theme is similar to the Nanny Diaries: young woman just out of college takes entry level position, not really in her field, in order to break into her field. Young woman is employed by outrageously insensitive woman who makes her life miserable, until she is fired. She learns a life lesson but ends up happy.
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Summary: Very Promising ... but a huge letdown...
Review: Entering the very posh and exclusive world of runway editor, Miranda Priestly, Andrea Sachs, fresh out of Brown, learns that getting to where she wants to be professionally may be much more difficult than she ever imagined. Hired as Priestly's assistant, the job "millions of girls would die for", Andrea's life takes a huge turn for the worst working for the boss from hell.
For anyone obsessed with the trendy, glamorous world of fashion and New York City, the book gives great details of famous designers, restaurants, places to socialize, what is in, and so on. Each detail of Andrea and Miranda's wardrobe is brilliantly described, down to the color of their Manolo's. We read of Andrea desperately trying to locate Karl Lagerfeld, dry cleaning a $40,000 Chanel dress, wrapping thousands of dollars of Christmas presents...
But, the fun stops there. Without the great descriptions of the fast-paced world of fashion, there is little to work with. Other than the great displays of hellish terror from Miranda, the characters are flat and predictable, the plot elementary, and the ending a yawn. I would be more inclined to recommend The Nanny Diaries for this type of book, where the writing is much more advanced and interesting.
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