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Summary: Helen Feilding - Genius
Review: Often in a womans life, there are certain situations that you get yourself into where you wish the ground would open up and swallow you whole! Poor Bridget Jones seems to have had many of these! I have never laughed out loud at a book so many times. My partner even started reading with me because he couldn't sleep with me laughing while reading it in bed. Both men and women will love this account of this 20/30 something's erratic love and career life. Shazza and Jude are carbon copies of my own friends! A Hilarious Read and Must Buy!!
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Summary: Now I'm one of 'those' women...
Review: This book always intrigued me since it came out, but for awhile, I refused to read it. To me, it seemed the typical "Girly Novel", something women read while drying their nails. I was wrong. My urges outvoted my head and I bought the book. From the first page, I could not put it down...thw more I read, the faster I came to a terrible conclusion: I AM Bridget Jones. She IS me. The airheaded ways she sometimes goes about things, her over-reaction to life's problems, her genuine "womenness"...it's all me. I just don't smoke or drink like she does...But, the weight issues, yeah, right here--That's me! This book is very well written by a talented writer. I have since read the sequel and it is equally as good. Just follows like you never even changed books. Reading BJD is like a homecoming, like talking with an old friend...everyone needs a friend as crazy as Bridget! Get this book, read it more than once, and then make sure all of your friends read it, too.
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Summary: A Book for All Women - Singleton and Smug Marrieds!
Review: Such an excellent book - although I live halfway across the world, born & bred in Asia, I find it totally funny and sad and I could relate to it. I especially find it beautiful her strong staunch relationships with her friends who never let her down! Wish I had friends like that! A must read - and re-read it if you feel like your life's a complete mess.
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Summary: loveditloveditlovedit
Review: I read this as light reading over the summer, and read it again, then again. This was a very non-threatening book--not very long, no lengthy paragraphs, no large odd-sounding words (except for occassional British terminology)--and I picked it up randomly off of a library shelf. When I read it, and found out that it had been made into a movie, I just had to go see it.
Of course it wasn't as good. But it was good. I was also an avid Jane Austen fan, and the frequent overt references to Pride and Prejudice were funny and good at tying the plot together and giving a better perspective of what the author wanted the characters to seem like. I'm not quite sure about this cover...a little scary (the one I read had a woman writing in a diary on it). Anyway, the heroine, Bridget Jones, is a British woman feeling her biological clock tick--and feeling others feeling that tick for her. Her garulous mother and Smug Married acquaintences persist on ribbing her for not having a boyfriend, and don't even believe her when she finally gets one.
Bridget is drawn to her attractive yet irresponsible employer, Daniel Cleaver, and finds herself constantly bumping into Mark Darcy (get the name hint at all??), the dull divorcee barister that everyone is trying to shaft upon her. Think Ally McBeal and some of Meg Ryan's more neurotic roles. Bridget Jones is a normal, healthy woman obsessed with her weight, smoking and drinking habits, and self-help books. Social satire and hilarious situations abound. (it's much, much better than this review, I assure you:)
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Summary: Couldn't put it down til it was finished
Review: A gift from my aunt, she chose the perfect thing!
I loved it, I plan on reading it again. It was so
funny, and there were lots of little things about
Bridget that I could identify with!! I could hardly
put the thing down, and I found myself wanting to
say British phrases and talk with a British accent!
Very funny, very good for single girls of any age.
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Summary: Cheeky, laugh out loud fun!
Review: Loved the diary style format and caloric, cigarette and alcohol measurements with excuses of why each were over endulged. Couldn't put it down. Laugh out loud fun. Can't wait for the arrival of Helen Fieldings sequel.
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Summary: Men too will be laughing tears enjoying Bridget's Diary
Review: I usually read all the books my female friends recommend (well, at least I start reading them; as some are a just too singlemindedly feministic to enjoy). The 2 Bridget Jones Diaries I've read so far produced many floods of laughing tears. Her self irony and the funny-honest way she writes down her thoughts as well as whats happening to her are outstanding. She even managed, that my wife and myself keep using the "gaaah, gaaah, gaaah's", whenever something remotedly similar happens to us ... and just can't help laughing every time 'cause our minds fly back to Bridget .... :-)
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Summary: way too close to the mark for comfort! hilarious!
Review: i know, i know, it's not as lofty a pursuit as jane austin, but hardly was jane austin in her day. can relate to bridget jones way too much and too funny for words. i admit it, despite my better judgement (i.e. a friend made me do it!) i saw the movie first... and loved it. had wanted desperately to read the book because of friends recommendations, but somehow didn't have the time (or was i too lazy?) ... absolutely hilarious and now have read both the book and its fabulous sequel too many times than i care to acknowledge. as shallow as it may seem, plight of knowing every last calorie count for even obscure food, cigarette count, and weird friend advice hit straight home... remarkably with a wit and humor very few couldn't find zany and witty. couldn't put this book down. have made nearly every last person i know read the book and everyone agrees that bridge is a winner. wonderfully written, absolutely human, funny and endearing... bridget, we need a third book! warning: finishing this book and sequel will leave you searching stacks of books for similar novels... fear that, very few of them actually live up to bridget.
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Summary: could not relate to this book...
Review: ...even though I'm also a single woman in her 30s. Not all of us are that insecure. Bridget should get over it already. Some of us do have other things to worry besides weight and drinking too much (which I think is a serious problem). And none my married friends are anything like hers (thank God). Is this how society sees single women? Is this how I'm supposed to act...because I'm single?
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Summary: A great quick read
Review: I have seen both the movie, and read the book. I can honestly say this is one of those few that the movie and the book compliment each other well. The book is a quick and enjoyable read. This book entertains while it helps us see that our personal faults, or even hang ups really aren't all that bad. I enjoyed the book a great deal.
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