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Summary: I liked the movie better!!!
Review: How sad is that!! Usually the book is always better than the movie, and I the movie wasn't that great either.This book depressed me, I couldn't get thru it so I took it back to the library. I wanted to understand what all the hype was about!! Sorry! :(
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Summary: Hurray for "Singleton" Bridget!
Review: This is an awesome book! I had first heard about this book by seeing the movie, which was very funny. I then decided to read the book which I had heard was based upon Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Having read Austen's novel (which i did not like) I hoped that this version would be much more appealing to the 21st century reader. And, luckily it was. Bridget(a clumsy, insecure, chain-smoking Elizabeth Bennet) was lovable because of her flaws and self questioning. I think that anyone can identify with her obsessiveness over her weight, love life, and career. I thought that Bridget was also a complex character who was just trying to find her own definition of happiness in a world where TV and aquaintances are constantly trying to define happiness for her. The idea of telling the story of Bridget Jones through a diary was ingenious of Helen Fielding. It allowed the reader to go into the mind of the main character and see what she was really like without the facade of confidence that we all wear in front of others. I also enjoyed Bridget's lovable and also confused friends Sharon, Jude, and Tom. Their prescence made Bridget's behavior seem more normal and everyday. And I laughed out loud at Bridget's midlife crisis mother who is a great modern day parallel to Austen's marriage-crazed Mrs. Bennet. Her carefree and nonchalant attitude toward everything, including her own conviction, was hilarious! Her crazy antics were an overexaggeration of the things that mothers do that drive us crazy! While laughing at Mrs. Jones' crazy antics, i could also sympathize with poor Mr. Colin Jones, who was hung-out-to-dry by his wife. The last main characters are to me the most important beside Bridget herself. Daniel Cleaver is the epitomy of a modern day Mr. Wickham, a "player" or a man who uses a women for his own selfish fulfillment and then leaves without a trace. The reader can sypathize with Bridget because we have all known someone who has been used and then been left out in cold. But then, there is Mark Darcy, a modern day protrayal of (guess who) Mr. Dacry. He appears as a knight on a white horse, ready to sweep Bridget away from her annoying family and embarrasing carrer in TV. But the way he appears is very subtle but realistic. He is a shy man who does things that silent manner that seems to make the action all the more important and endearing. This novel was a joy to read, i recomend to everyone that wishes to read a book that is more about examining your own flaws and laughing at them through the main character, Bridget Jones.
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Summary: Wholly hillarious
Review: Loved this book. Trend-setting and ground breaking. A protagonist all women can relate to, and a love interest (Darcy) worthy of our adoration. Yummy. Ate it up with a spoon.
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Summary: There is even a little Bridget Jones in you!
Review: This was one of the funniest books I have ever read!
It is a story of one year in the life of a 30 years old, single London girl. Bridget Jones -much given to irony -is a single who eats, drinks and smokes too much.
She is disorganized, insecure, weight obsessed- a woman trying to cope with her crazy boss and crazier assignments in her job.
The book, which chronicles one year in her life, starts with a series of New Year's resolutions to quit smoking, loose 10 pounds, find a decent boyfriend, and develop ''inner poise.'' Or as she puts it: ''I will not sulk about having no boyfriend and instead develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.''
Moreover she starts to write a diary and each diary entry begins with her weight, number of calories eaten, the alcohol units she consumed, cigarettes smoked, and moments spent on having negative thoughts.
Bridget Jones fights with the daily problems of life. Every girl and woman could identify with her very well, because she is a girl like you and me. A real problem for Bridget is her mother. She always wants to find a new boyfriend for her, which makes family celebrations so gruesome for her. Her mother always knows everything better and wants to start a new life with already 60 years. She has a boyfriend which is an additional problem for Bridget and her parents.
Ms. Jones best friend is homosexual and so both of them have nearly the same problem. No man! He helps her to manage daily problems and the other way round.
Bridget slips from one embarrassing situation into the next. There are a lot of funny parts to read in the book. For example the situation as Bridget should report something from a fire department and she is- how else could it be- too late. But this is not the only situation where she shows us how clumsy a human being could be.
Well, it's hard not to laugh with and at Bridget's problems. Any woman who has ever had weight woes or relationship woes will feel Bridget's pain. This book taught me to look at the bright side of life and not take things too seriously. Especially as I read the result of one year diet, she lost 33kg but get 32,5kg back so all in all she lost 0,5kg. No chocolate for the whole year and the favourite jeans doesn't fit anyway.
The same with smoking! She can not give it up!
I personally recommend this book to everyone who likes reading about a woman who is a little bit like everybody of us. I am sure, guys will find it amusing and entertaining as well, especially in getting to know the "backstage" of a woman's lifestyle and her innermost thoughts and obsessions. It is so unbelievably true to our nature.
There's even a little Bridget Jones in you!
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Summary: Go Bridget!
Review: Helen, congratulations on breaking down the barriers on the way we women think, albiet in our sub-conscious. I found this book hilarious and charming, insightful but sad. Bridget is a very average 30ish British woman looking for love or even just happiness. I loved this book, and straight away read number 2. Read the book (different from the movie, in oh so many ways....)
Highly recommended.
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Summary: Absolutely awful
Review: I couldn't even get through the first chapter, and I absolutely hate how the author basically based it as a modern version of Pride and Prejudice. Yet Bridget is not "perfect" like Elizabeth Bennet ( P & P's heroine). Bridget is very wacky and does very silly things. It was just so boring to read in "diary format." The one thing that I like about the character is that she has her flaws. So that makes it more realistic. However, I must say that one ought to stick to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen instead. Even though I did not like Bridget Jones's Diary, I did like the movie. I finally understood Bridget and who she was, and in the movie she is a very lovable character so I would reccomend the movie over the book.
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Summary: A pleasant diversion--nothing more
Review: There has been a lot of hype surrounding this novel. I actually avoided it for a long time because I don't like to get caught up in that sort of thing. But I was pleasantly surprised, and yet also disappointed. This book is pure fluff. Now that has its place, and the mood I was in was that place. It's funny and it's a pleasant diversion. But that's all it is. It's not groundbreaking and I didn't recognize myself in it--but then I'm not a single English woman (in fact I'm none of those). Its one fault was that it was too long. Like I said, it was pleasant and witty enough, but I didn't care about the characters so once it began to rely on the story, I got bored and just wanted it to end.
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Summary: Simply hilarious
Review: This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. Bridget Jones is very easy to relate to and Helen Fielding describes her and all of her characters very well. While reading during class I laughed out loud so many times that my teacher made me stand up and tell everyone what I was reading, which was really embarassing! A lot of people are now reading this because of that, so at least my embarrasment wasn't in vain. I'm sure that other reviewers have described the plot so I won't waste your time any longer. I'll just say one more thing: Read this book, you won't regret it!
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Summary: Why would anyone choose to identify with Bridget?
Review: This is one of those dreadful books that is passed around the office by women who think of themselves as 'one of the girls'. Don't be fooled into identifying yourself with this novel; here's why: The few and rather flimsy reasons women think they identify with Bridget are that she's overweight, though the author is careful to slip in (lest you identify the character with her) between the exaggerations that this is only a matter of about ten pounds. Or else that Bridget is single, thirty-something, and feeling the societal pressures of settling down with a man. At worst, there's an association akin to being pulled in by hokey cigarette advertisements from the 1960's: hey ladies, you can smoke and drink, too: naughty equals cool. Fielding creates a false sense of sympathy for Bridget by positioning her in embarrassing situations in front of wealthy people. Yet Bridget moves too readily in those social circles she's meant to abhor. Not to mention that the author handles these situations rather obviously and clumsily. It's a transparent attempt to gain the reader as an ally and to let the author off the hook for when she slurps champagne at the novel's press release. (Really, isn't she more sophisticated than the sophisticated?) At least the show, Sex and the City is unapologetic about the fact that most women could not afford their lifestyle. It may be that the author is striking an ironic pose and believes this gives her credibility: hey, look, Pride and Prejudice: a man defines a woman: what's changed in over a hundred years? Or, wow, with our consumer culture, the character of Bridget does not so much resemble Elizabeth as she does Lydia. (Keep in mind that if she is writing with a sense of irony then she is insulting her fans.) The poor quality of the writing will not get her off the hook as far as any intelligent reader is concerned. The only reason Fielding wrote this book was to make money. Save yourself a wasted afternoon and find a more worthwhile cause to fund than the author's bar tab.
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Summary: READ THIS BOOK!!!
Review: By far the most entertaining book I have ever read!!!
If, like me, you read light - hearted books for pleasure, you will love this book. I also thought the movie did it a lot of justice.
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