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Summary: Loved It!
Review: I absolutely loved Bridget Jones! I could feel her pain with the weight gain and tracking everything. It was so funny to read about her trials and tribulations. The movie is good, too, but the book gives so much more detail. Great book!
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Summary: Light, but clever....
Review: I was slightly apprehensive about reading Bridget Jones's Diary at first. I'd heard numerous good things about it, but feared that Bridget's man, weight, and self-esteem problems would make her a terminal whiner. To my surprise and delight, I found this book laugh-out-loud funny and much more clever than anticipated. Bridget is a 30-something, single career-woman, dealing with the ups and downs of dating, a career, and life in general. She's constantly nagged about her relationship status by her eccentric mother and numerous family friends. You can imagine that she's tickled pink to finally be woo'ed by her boss, the charming and rascally, Daniel. Well, needless to say, nothing goes completely smooth with Daniel...if it did, this book would be much shorter. The antics that Bridget finds herself in, along and with an entertaining group of friends, are nothing short of hilarious. I was also surpised and impressed by several blatant references to Pride and Prejudice (there's a Mr. Darcy in this book). I was even more surprised to see many parallels between the two stories as I read along, so keep your eyes peeled for these amusing similarities. This is a wonderful book that I will keep close at hand when I need a laugh.
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Summary: Quick read
Review: This was a quick, satisfying read. I was not blown away by the book like so many people. In fact, the video's been out for a while and it's not on the top of my rental list. I'm a married mother and didn't really identify with Bridget's single life, I guess. It's a "cute" simple story, but I like novels that are a little more in-depth. I read this book while on vacation at our cabin. It was a perfect summer read, or beach read. But I would get it from the library instead of spending your money on it.
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Summary: First Book I Couldn't Put Down
Review: Books in the past I've loved, but rarely do I find a book that i truely cannot put down. An easy read, Briget Jones's Diary gets into the mind of a thirty-something frusterated english woman with a roller coaster life. Through cheating boyfriends, pyscho mother, gay best friend, workplace flirting, and not the mention the ever halarious weight issues, Briget always has something to write. Kept me laughing out loud (literally). HIGHLY reccommended.
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Summary: Lots of fun
Review: This book was loads of fun about the most sympathetic character in fiction since Winnie the Pooh. Besides, any book that leaves me with more faith in mankind than I started with is my friend.
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Summary: Entertaining Fluff
Review: A bestseller indeed, but nowhere near the Booker Prize shortlist. Light and airy tale of single woman in London and her wacky friends and family. Amusing, entertaining, and completely vapid. I wish I'd seen the movie first.
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Summary: Bridget Jones
Review: I saw the movie before I read the book. I didn't care for the movie. But everybody always seems to think that the books are better than the movies. So I read the book and was disappointed. I thought it was very slow and repetitive. Some scenes were over the top, like Bridget's mother and Julio. I am going to read the sequel since I already have the book. But this isn't a book I would recommend. I didn't bring me any emotion...I didn't laugh, I didn't cry...I just got bored and wanted to finish it.
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Summary: Hapless Single Girl Looking for Love
Review: Bridget Jones is hapless, pathetic, sad, lonely, funny, endearing and very believable. Her rambling journal entries depict a young woman obsessed with her weight and alcohol consumption and cigarette habit. Her diary each day begins with her weight, and includes references to how many units of alcohol she consumed the prior day, plus caloric intake and cigarettes. When she's happy all of the above are declining, when she's not, the opposite occurs. Even her family life is falling apart, because her Mum has left her Dad and is seeing someone else, and her Dad is miserable and crying on her shoulder incessantly. Bridget is a publisher's assistant in a London publishing house, and begins an affair with her boss, Daniel Cleaver. But he's a scoundrel and only seems to be interested in her when he wants sex, and the rest of the time, forgets about her. She keeps hoping that the relationship will turn into something else. She eventually discovers that he's seeing someone else, and is devastated by the failure of yet another relationship. Her family is always asking her why she's not married yet, and it seems that everyone in the world is part of a couple except her. Her family keeps trying to set her up with Mark Darcy, a divorced successful, boring barrister, but sparks fly whenever she meets him and they don't seem to have anything in common. She decides to change careers in order to get away from Daniel, and to take control of her life. She becomes a tv reporter for an independent cable station, but isn't particularly successful at that either. Mark Darcy gives her an exclusive interview after a highly publicized trial, and she achieves instant recognition and respect in her field. Her attempts at self-improvement (feng shui, gourmet cooking, exercising, etc.) are hilarious and short-lived. Her friends are all equally frustrated and misdirected. In spite of her many flaws, she will eventually find someone who loves her just the way she is. If she had known that all along, maybe she wouldn't have tormented herself in the pursuit of perfection.
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Summary: Better than the movie!
Review: Anyone who has seen the movie version of this novel and liked that movie probably will like the written story even better. And even people who found the film annoying may well find that they are more amused by the book. BRIDGET JONES' DIARY is a fast-paced and clever concept that makes for entertaining reading. DIARY was the volume that started the trend of "City Girl" plotlines, east side of the Atlantic series. (The
west side of the Atlantic movement is headed by SEX & THE CITY.) The print version of DIARY is funnier and quicker than the movie was, and some of the changes of detail which were made to have a film that was more correct politically damaged the pacing of the story. DIARY is not unique; while it was early in the genre, there also are other, similar, works which are almost as good. In fact, MAKING MINTY MALONE is so similar that it almost seems like the two authors must have written each of their manuscripts as part of an assignment for the same writing class. Still, DIARY remains the dispositive work about the over-educated, urban, young and unmarried career woman in these opening years of the new millennium.
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Summary: One of the funniest books ever written
Review: If you don't like this book you have no sense of humor whatsoever and should seek medical attention immediately.
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