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Summary: Better than the First Book!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. I thought the first one was good, but I could not put this book down. I was up until 4 in the morning reading it. The sequel continues from where the first one ended. This is a laugh out loud, page turning, plot twisting story. I loved it and want to read it again. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Bridget is a wimp
Review: Admittedly I did laugh a few times in reading this book and I was able to finish it. However, I thought Bridget was a terribly wimpy character and I did not like the way it portrayed women in general.
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Summary: Bridget Fans Will Enjoy
Review: Definitely not as good as Bridget Jones' Diary...but Bridget fans will enjoy her further adventures. Don't get me wrong, it is a good read and quite funny, just somewhat disappointing.
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Summary: Hurrah!
Review: Number of minutes since finished delightful Bridget Jones sequel,"Edge of Reason:" 127. Hated to see it come to an end. If you liked the movie, you'll love this book. Inspired to start own diary. Probably won't, as am too lazy and dread thought of personal shagging record falling into wrong hands.
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Summary: A worthy successor!
Review: Bridget's back, and this time instead of getting a man, she's focused on keeping the one she's got. Her complete inability to escape bumbling, awkward social situations (arrested for drug possession in Thailand, blowing an interview with Colin Firth) truly makes one feel better about one's own social graces (or near complete lack thereof). Though not quite as laugh-out-loud as the first, the book is still quite funny and we're kept rooting for Bridgit until the end when true love reigns, and makes you hope that there's someone out there for you who'll appreciate all your inadequecies as much as Mr. Darcy does Bridget's. And if he happens to be handsome and rich as well so much the better! ;-)
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Summary: Disappointment to intelligent readers
Review: I was so looking forward to the new adventures of Ms. Jones after finding her to be a loveable and indentifiable character in the previous book. However, Edge of Reason has turned her into a characature of an altogether rediculous human being. Her adventures are not the slightly blown versions of the real thing, but plain outlandish (Thai prison, naked youth with rabbit in boyfriends bed, death threat, etc). Unfortunately, this book came off as a hurried attempt to reap in on the profits created by the first Jones book. Surely most fans of the original novel will find it a sad sellout, and a poor representation of the character they have come to adore.
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Summary: Bridget Jones:The Edge of reason
Review: The sequal to Bridget Jones' Diary is absolutyly hylarious.Helen Fieding is a wonderful author who really know's how to bring real life into her books. Briget Jones is a modern girl with whom eveyone can relate to. This book keeps you coming back for more, wondering what Bridget is going to do next, and what is going to happen in her life. This is a must read!
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Summary: I really liked "diary"...
Review: ...so much so that I ordered the follow-up from the UK so that I wouldn't have to wait months more for the US release. I should have waited. Our Bridge has become self-conscious and both too sleazy and too posh. Her problems have become a bit non-relatable and she's more of a pain with fewer mitigating traits. Yes, I really liked "Diary," and I'm much more likely to read that one again than this...
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Summary: As good as the original
Review: I couldn't put this book down--stayed up late 2 nights reading it--it's so good. After recently reading the original book, seeing the movie and watching the BBC Pride & Prejudice on DVD, I had to get this book, if only to read the Colin Firth interview (which Helen Fielding and Colin Firth "play acted" before she wrote this book). I was worried I wouldn't like this book because of the mixed reviews here and because the first book/movie have such a perfect ending. It didn't make sense to me to go beyond that ending (like writing a sequel to Pride & Prejudice). But I was pleasantly surprised to find this book as good as the original--just as funny and touching. And you don't have to be a Singleton to enjoy this book--I'm married but can still relate. The only hard thing, being an American, is understanding some of the English jargon. Makes me wish I had a dictionary of English slang or something. I can't wait to see the movie and find out how they will handle Colin Firth playing both Mark Darcy and himself.If you're a Jane Austen fan (as I am), this book has the same theme as Persuasion, though it doesn't follow the plot of Persuasion the way Bridget Jone's Diary has lots of plot points similar to Pride & Prejudice.
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Summary: Good (but not great) sequel
Review: Same quirky, self deprecating humor that made the first a must read. The only criticism I have is that the end of this one seems far fetched.
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