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Summary: Entertaining fluffy read
Review: I am late reading The Devil Wear's Prada, however I picked it up a month ago and I found it to be a cute fluff book. Chic lit is definately an appropriate title. This book should not be taken seriously or compared to "real literature". It's a mindless quick read and break from the real world. I recommend it as a summer or metro read. I live in DC so it's a way to pass the time while riding the Red Line. I became very frustrated with the protagonist for several chapters. However,I learned some people are really THAT docile!
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Summary: Mediocre attempt on an overpublished topic
Review: Writing about living and working in the insane world of New York City has been done so often, and so badly, in recent years, that the bar must be raised. If you really want to read about the whack-jobs that live in NYC, read "American Psycho" or "Less than Zero." They're more satirical and true to their roots than this immature recount of a tired topic. That said, I think Weisberger has a lot of potential, and look forward to reading her work after she becomes a little more developed as a writer.Manini
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Summary: Devil Wears Prada, even the title seems dated
Review: Ms. Weisberger has written a fantastic read assailing her former boss, Anna Wintour of Vogue, sometimes known as Nuclear Wintour. Or did she? The HarperCollins lawyers obviously take this as a work of fiction but no one else would. Why else call Wintour by name for no reason near the end of the book except to prove the point badly that she isn't Miranda? but is Nigel Andre Leon Talley? Again, who else could it be? Thanks for letting us in Vogue and conde Nast, even if you do call them Runway and Elias-Clark. No one else throws away money like that for nothing.
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Summary: Highly Entertaining; An Easy Read
Review: I found this book to be highly entertaining. Some parts were very funny, although I'm not so sure that was the author's intention. If you are a secretary, you will definitely relate to this book (or appreciate your own boss more). If I had one criticism about it, it would be that it goes on way too long before the satisfying ending. The Nanny Diaries was similar to this book, but much better written. I recommend both of them.
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Summary: Not For Me
Review: "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA" seems to be a love it or leave it book. Turned out to be not my cup of tea. I only got through about 1/3 before I cut my losses and donated it to the library book sale. A better choice would be "TRADING UP."
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Summary: Too cute
Review: I do not recommend this novel, although it is interesting to skim the name-dropping about real people; the details about those real people are probably accurate, as they would not be protected by violation of privacy. Nonetheless, the novel seems mean-spirited. While the "Devil," allegedly based in part on the author's former real-life boss Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue, is a fascinating creature of arrogance and greed--and meaner than hell, maybe similarly to how some have described other "famous women" in real life--there isn't any depth to the novel. According to an interview with the author that I read on-line, Ms. Weisberger knows "this isn't War and Peace," and has been surprised at all the "buzz" and about being called the new "it" writer. I don't think so. Cleverness and cuteness don't make for strong writing, no matter how many names one is able to drop.
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Summary: Miranda makes my boss seem like an angle
Review: Maybe I purchased this book for the title, but most likely i purchased it because what the story was about. maybe there was someone out there who could sempathise with how horrible my boss was. Well Huray for my boss! I completely enjoyed reading this story although at times it seemed predictable, I was completely involved with the characters, and could not wait too see what would happen next. The Story is simple, but has many messages that all of us face. how far do you go to become successful later in life, and what do you sacrafice?
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Summary: Revenge-Lit Gone Wrong
Review: If you're at all familiar with Ms. Weisberger's background (as a former assistant to Vogue editor Anna Wintour, the apparent "Devil" in question of the book's title), then you might figure her work as just the latest of the Revenge-Lit novels that often come from first-time novelists.
The book has all the makings of one, despite the author's evasions on the subject: young, green Andrea Sachs, fresh out of college, realizes that she'll need to get a job. She literally stumbles upon a job opening at the fictional Runway magazine and by her description is practically forced into employment as the assistant to the highly demanding, British-accented Miranda Priestly. She claims to have literary aspirations and zero interest in fashion, so immediately she sets her self apart from (above, actually) her new colleagues. Thus, Andrea is terrorized, humiliated, dehumanized and demoralized on a regular basis. She gets sucked further and further into the void of non-stop cell phones, lattes, designer clothes, equally-terrified-yet-still-superior co-workers, while at the same time she's slowly drifting away from her family, loyal boyfriend and unstable roomie, all of whom seem to depend solely upon her for their survival. Andrea endures the tug-of-war between the two sides in the hope that a year of servitude under Ms. Priestly will lead to a job at the New Yorker (!). At least, that's why she TELLS us she's doing it... Weisberger paints her narrator as a rebel who resists the lure of the fashion world as long as she can, until it begins to permeate her self conscious (against her will, of course), but it doesn't ring true. She wants to fit in, she wants to be measured by her new employer's standards - and to measure UP. She enjoys the thousands of dollars in designer clothes tossed her way, the on-demand car service, the access to New York's most exclusive restaurants and to her new, rarefied world in general. The book's biggest weakness is that Andrea never admits it. The simultaneous attraction/revulsion to the thing that's slowly driving her crazy is perhaps the one thing a reader might relate to most easily. She complains about her forced trip to Paris with Miranda, then doesn't understand why her family isn't more 'excited' for her. She suffers a particularly brutal tongue-lashing from her boss and only moments later, her hands still shaking from the assault, she peers out the window of her limo and enjoys the sight of all the exclusive designer boutiques lining the streets of Paris. "I could get used to this," she thinks to herself. Bizarre, yes, but who hasn't believed they could focus on the perks involved in a loathed job, in order to minimize the misery? There's very little perspective at all in the book, no real feeling that Andrea can look back at either herself or her tormentors with any sort of objectivity. She's the victim, Miranda's the victimizer and both of them (along with every other character in the novel) are about as realized as paper dolls. So as Revenge-Lit, the book comes up short. For it to work, we would have needed to be on Andrea's side, to recognize her suffering as something similar to our own. Instead, you'll just end up wondering why she didn't quit.
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Summary: Fluffy, fluff with an interesting title
Review: I was curious about this book becuz I love the high-fashion world combined with publishing, but this book was definitely not worth the money! Although the antics and topsy-turvy world of Andrea had me curious, after a few chapters I wanted to ask her if she thought a job fresh out of school would be all sweetness and smiles... Wake up! If you are going to work in the Big Apple in the competitive field of high fashion, it isn't going to be a cake walk and oh, please, oh please stop all the moaning about what a poor abused assistant you are....we have all been there, climbing the ladder rung by rung!
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Summary: A book as weak and thin as a fashion model...
Review: I read this book as required reading for a book club that I had been asked to join. The book club never got off the ground because none of the members could get through the story except for myself, and I moaned about how bad it was until I finished it. The characters and plot were weak, and once I learned how the author came about her information on the fashion and publishing industry, I was sorry I had spent the money on her book. If she had any respect for herself, she would have quit a demoralizing job once the insults began instead of sticking with it and then making a quick buck by trying to humiliate her ex-employer. Catchy title though, gotta admit that.
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