Rating: 
Summary: times laughed out loud while reading...20 (v. marvelous)
Review: Remember that commercial with cute little kids all saying, "I am Tiger Woods"? Well, this book will have 20 and 30 something women the world over saying, "I am Bridget Jones!" This is a book to share with your friends and your friends' friends. I'm making the prediciton now that this book will become a phenomenon here, just like it has in England. Bridget rocks!
Rating:
Summary: I laughed out loud!
Review: A must read for any single female in her "late, late twenties". (Or any male that wants to understand her.) I've passed my copy on three times!
Rating: 
Summary: An enjoyable, but short, read
Review: A great read and certainly a book that you can't put down. However, because the experience is over so quickly, it is also one that will probably be forgotten quickly. I just wish it was a bit longer with a bit more substance. I could not help but think it was the grown up woman's version of the Diary of Adrian Mole.
Rating:
Summary: fun, easy read
Review: This book was a perfect read for the stationary bike or treadmill at the gym --
except that you'll get strange looks when you laugh out loud. Imagine Eddie
from Ab Fab 15 years ago and articulate.
Rating:
Summary: A hilarious and truly wonderful look at life in the 90's
Review: As soon as I started reading the book, I could not put it down. I received some very strange looks from other people on the train as I sat in the corner and cried with laughter! The only worrying part, was that I could see some similarities to my own life and Ms. Jones!!!!
Rating:
Summary: side splittingly funny
Review: an hilarious and supremely witty journey through the ups and down of contemporary love seen through the eyes of a young woman:a modern day PRIDE AND PREJUDICE -- even one of the characters is called Darcy!
Rating:
Summary: It could be about me !!!
Review: Helen Fielding has captured the everyday life of a woman "around 30" in the 90ies. Bridget writes down her life and all the good and bad things that happen : the continuous weight struggle every woman knows, the "men must be from another planet" feeling, the problematic encounters with her family members, the sometimes very unfriendly and confusing work environment... It's all in this book and it's funny, sad, true (very!). I think every woman of our days can relate to it and even could have written it herself. A MUST READ !!!
Rating:
Summary: A hilarious look in the mirror for single women in the 90's
Review: Helen Fielding has masterfully sketched the day to day life of a 20 something single woman of the 90's, including powerlessness regarding weight, alcohol, sigarettes and men. A must read.
Rating: 
Summary: I guess it's true...there are no new ideas
Review: I first read this book a long time ago, around when it came out...I must have been 16 years old. I enjoyed it then. Then the movie came out and I enjoyed that as well. Then, just recently I read Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice to satisfy my curiosity of the classics. As a result, I am now horrifyingly disgusted with Bridget Jones's Diary and with the author, Helen Fielding. Her book is borderline plagerism of Pride and Prejudice. Of course it is not a word for word plagerism but the plot line is exactly the same. Unfortunately, I was only able to find one book review that made mention of this which leads me to believe that Ms. Fielding has gotten away with highway robbery. She even uses the same name for Mr. Prince Charming.In all fairness Ms. Fielding has at least accomplished something. She took a classic, which most people have little interest in reading, and modernized it while adding comic relief. Pride and Prejudice, as a typical Victorian era novel, has little comedy but I must say that Elizabeth, Bridet Jones's counterpart, is much more of a heroine for her time then Bridget is for hers. (...)
Rating:
Summary: One of the funniest books I've read in a long time
Review: This book is a classic of the "chick lit" genre- a book which no others has been able to touch. Bridget Jones, in a hectic year, experiences many of the things that real women face- work problems, men problems, friend problems, problems at home. But somehow Fielding manages to make all of it funny and not as important as you would at first think. Bridget is one of the wittiest, funniest characters I've run into in a long time. She even inspired me to keep my own diary (although my life is not quite as interesting as Bridget's). This novel is guaranteed to be a classic for years to come; I read Bridget Jones' Diary in a college course on women writers recently, and the whole class loved it. This book is, of course, a takeoff of the Jane Austen classic, Pride and Prejudice. However, by bringing her characters to a modern setting, Fielding somehow manages not to loose the original air that P&P possessed. The are the obvious Elizabeth and Darcy/Bridget and Darcy comparisons; the mother in Bridget Jones is a combination between Mrs. Bennet and Lydia (even down to running way with unsavory characters); and Daniel Cleaver is Mr. Wickham. Helen Fielding does not write at all like Jane Austen; but the ambience is roughly the same. Its a good idea to read both works at about the same time, so you can understand more clearly what I'm talking about. Warning, however: the movie is nothing like the book whatsoever. I recommend reading the book before seeing the movie.
|
