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Summary: I actually have Bridget withdrawel
Review: Unbeleiveably a "must read" if you have already been blessed to read Helen Fieldings' first book, Bridget Jones Diary. This is not a "woe is me", "woman power" book like I have heard people refer it to. This is genuine good laughs and a book you will wake up from a deep sleep wanting more. I just hope that Helen Fielding comes out with a new book SOON!!!! Bridget Jones is the girl next door. She feels and thinks the way all of us women have done at one time or another in our lives. You won't be disappointed!!! And Helen Fielding should get the praise she deserves!!! ENJOY!!
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Summary: Bridget's at it again!
Review: OK, Love Bridget. Really. I do. I'm always flipping to the back cover to look at Helen Fielding and imagine her to be Bridge. The best fantasy after the ones about sex are ones about the perfect girlfriend. And that's what Helen's given us with Bridget Does Anything. One small mark against Volume II: the end, while fun, funny and still Bridgetinteresting, is somewhat too whacky. Come on, we all like Bridget just fine in her flat, chugging chardonnay, watching Mr. Darcy come out of that damned pond ONCE AGAIN in the soaking wet puffy shirt. We don't really need a stretch in an Indonesian prison . . . But, hey, it's Bridget. And I really don't mean to complain. Buy. Read. You'll love.
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Summary: V. excellent, must read
Review: I was so excited to see the sequal to the famous Diary, and I was not disappointed! I took this book along with me on my recent honeymoon to Jamaica, and I couldn't put it down! There I was, perched out on a beach chair at the beautiful Carribean Sea, and all I could do is keep my head in my book! I had to find out if Bridget wins against evil Rebecca or survives strange happenings in Indonesia. This is one of the few books that has made me laugh out loud!
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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: This book was so great. I had heard of the first one but wasn't too thrilled about it. I saw this one while walking out of the library and picked it up. I read it and fell in love with it. This woman is so down to earth. She is actually believable and has real believable problems. You'll enjoy this book and laugh out loud several times while you're reading it. :)
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Summary: Very Funny!
Review: Both "Bridget Jones Diary" and this follow-up, "The Edge of Reason," are v. funny reading. How someone as clueless as Bridget can keep coming out on top of every difficult situation in her life -- from a crazed mother to a disappearing builder to an incompetent boss, a menacing ex-boyfriend, rotting meat, an international drug incident, and a nice-guy boyfriend -- leaves me shaking my head and smiling. I want to find Bridget annoying and dim, but I can't. It's a good author who can make a bumbling character so beguiling and endearing. These are delightful, funny books!
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Summary: The first book was better.....
Review: Bridgit is back and this time life is as usual crazy. Helen Fielding's first book had a ring of truth and experience, this one at times goes way over the top. Even greater than one can expect. A good read but the whole adventure in Thailand is not very creative. I would say read it in paperback and on the beach.
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Summary: Bridget's Back!
Review: If you loved Bridget Jones' Diary, you'll love this book. Bridget is back, and is crazier than ever. Her character becomes much more developed, as do those of the people around her. The plot gets thicker and thicker and is very unpredictable but one thing you can be sure of is that you'll laugh with the turn of each page.This book doesn't claim to be an amazing feat of literature in the academic sense. It's not always grammatically correct, nor does it pretend to be something it's not. It IS light reading, but entertaining. That's the beauty of both of these books. You open the cover and you are immediately immersed in her world, which is believable, colorful, filled with adventure and fun. She seems so real... it's almost as though you're reading letters from your best girlfriend, and she's filling you in on what's going on in her life. I just can't wait for the next sequel. I'm definitely addicted!
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Summary: No. of times laughed: 0 (v.bad)
Review: When I read the first book about Bridget Jones, I loved it, even being a man. I laughed out loud and found the book to be very inventive. Other than that, even being a little crazy, she seemed like every other woman with high hormones. In this one, Bridget Jones is just like a caricature. Although it's good to see Bridget in other places different than the others ones - like a travel to Tailand - , she doesn't say a single line that doesn't seem to have been spoken by a crazy child, she is not serious in a single chapter and seem not to have the faintest idea of what the human being is as for their behavior and mind thinking. The book is not as funny as the first one. I didn't laugh in a single line and it's even dull sometimes. I think it's much better if Helen Fielding come up with another character, because Bidget Jones is not as good as she used to be anymore. If she writes another book like that, I think she'll perceive that the life of Bridget Jones is not interesting to her readers as it was once. If you wanna try it under your own risk, do it. If you have nothing better else to read... Just don't tell me that I didn't warn ya! Marco Aurelio.
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Summary: HOORAY!
Review: Bridget Jones Edge of Reason is the perfect sequel to the first book written by Helen Fielding. It captures your attention not only with the continuence of british humor but blends in many new adventures for Bridget in her quest to maintain a relationship, lose weight, quit smoking and drinking, and above all get rid of her obsession with self help books. Fielding cleverly captivates her audience to the point where you can't wait to read Bridgets weight for the next day and how many seconds it has been since she last had sex. Bridget is a very lovable character whom every girl in the world can relate too. This is another fantastic book by Helen Fielding! It looks as though Fielding may be starting a series for this much loved singleton! HOORAY!
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Summary: An Excellent Sequel To A Great Original
Review: I think that it would be a tough challenge for an author to write a sequel, especially one to a popular book like Bridget Jones' Diary. It's inevitable that fans of the original will develop ideas and expectations as to how the characters will grow. If the author doesn't meet these expectations, then the book isn't well received. Fortunately, Fielding manages to avoid this trap. This book maintains all the charms of the original, while managing to advance the characters in a natural, logical way. Fans will be delighted to find that the humorous spirit of the original is maintained. The situations in which the characters are placed are as outlandish and witty as before. Yet, the book isn't just a series of hilarious misadventures. There is a growth that's depicted in all the characters. Bridget seems to learn a lot about herself through the course of the book. The other characters also depict the little changes that constitute growth in a person. The result of these depictions is that the book, while still very funny, has an undercurrent of seriousness that makes it seem more realistic than one would first imagine. Don't let the slightly serious tone fool you. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is still great fun. It's a very worthy follow-up to the original. I, for one, can't wait for the next volume of Bridget's diaries to see where Fielding next takes these characters.
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