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Summary: a hilarious and captivating read
Review: Bridget Jones is one of the funniest books I have ever read. We have all had our "Bridget moments". She is a thirty-something who writes down everything she eats, her weight gain and loss, her daily intake of fags (cigarrettes) and alcohol consumption. The diary starts off detailing Una's New Year's Day Curry Buffet where she's asked "How's your love life?" She thinks to herself, "Oh God. Why can't married people understand that this is no longer a polite question to ask? We wouldn't walk up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'" This is just one example of her engaging humor. While at the party, her parents try to set her up with Mark Darcy, a boy that she used to play in the wading pool with as a child while she was running around naked. She sees him and immediately disqualifies him as a potential candidate because he is wearing a V-neck diamond patterned sweater. "As my friend Tom often remarks, it's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner." And so the diary goes. She later talks about her moments at work where she has ongoing e-mails with her boss's boss, Daniel, about the length of her skirt. This book is a must-read! I have already purchased Edge of Reason and can't wait to begin reading it.
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Summary: very funny...
Review: BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY by Helen Fielding was a hilarious, laugh-out-loud novel. I recommend it to anyone who's not easily offended.
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Summary: WOW!!!!
Review: I really like this book. It was different, and at first I had to get use to it, but after a while, I really got into the book and really enjoyed it. It goes along with the plight of all women and I totally agree with it! So..., pick up this book and read!
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Summary: Good for giggles
Review: I haven't been single in over 20 years, but I could still relate to the escapades of Ms. Jones, especially the self-deception! Helen Fielding captures the voice of diary prose in such a hilarious way. I find myself imitating that style now in my own journaling, and I'm actually annoying myself, as I am neither single nor British. When a book makes you laugh out loud and read tidbits to your hubby, you know you're being entertained. Still rooting for Bridget!
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Summary: A fun read...
Review: This was such a fun book to read! It goes by so fast and every minute of it is full of funny, interesting, good clean comedy. Although I can't yet relate to Bridget Jones (I am single, but just 19), I was told by an older lady that everything she went through was so true! Any person (male or female) would enjoy this novel. Yeah, it's about a single 30-something female, but her daily diary entries are fun for anybody to read. Share this with a friend, or better yet, tell them to go buy one themselves!
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Summary: Fun and Funny
Review: I read this book about a year ago, but I will never ever forget Bridget Jones. She's lovable, pitiful, sweet, and silly all at the same time, and her misadventures are downright hillarious. Everyone, at one time or another, has had a "Bridget moment," which is why it is so easy to identify with Fielding's heroine. Whether she's showing up to a Sunday afternoon tea in a Playboy bunny costume or screwing up at her job, the lovable Bridget will have you in stitches. I couldn't put it down!
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Summary: Quirky story of a plucky Singleton reviewed by Smug Married
Review: This was my second time reading Bridget Jones's Diary and it is just as good the second time around (and after seeing the movie twice, as well!) Bridget is a quirky, self-deprecating, humorous, honest character. Anytime I start thinking wistfully about my Singleton days, I only have to remind myself that the grass wasn't always greener, as Bridget Jones's Diary so skillfully depicts. It's a hard job being a Singleton!
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Summary: Young Woman's Angst
Review: This book was hilarious. It reminded me of the pages in my own diary. The observations of a single woman's life have been cleverly penned and the end result is a year's journey of funny anecdotes which every 20 or 30 something woman will be able to relate to. A top read.
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Summary: A Quick, Fun, Hilariously Enjoyable Read!
Review: I was sort of dragged to see this film the night it came out, but I ended up enjoying it immensely. Of course, I had to buy the book next, and it kept me company on a long cross-country flight. With all the humor of Nick Hornby, the self-deprecation of Woody Allen, and a plot borrowed from a classic, Fielding's narrative moves quickly and surely; always funny and ever-endearing, Bridget Jones's attempts to move from insecure singleness make for an engaging and hilarious read. The humor of "Bridget Jones's Diary" is its strongest quality. From the exchange between Bridget and her boss, Daniel, regarding the absence-due-to-sick-leave of Bridget's apparently too-short skirt, to the Tarts and Vicars fiasco, there's a lot to laugh at in this book. Fielding does funny well, but she's also good for a pithy rejoinder in the Cruelty Department; the American woman Bridget catches her man Daniel with says, as Bridget is leaving, "I thought you said she was thin." Ouch. Some of the reviews here have bashed "Bridget" for ripping off Austen, which is a little unfair. Rewrites like this are nothing new--see Jean Rhys' "Wide Sargasso Sea," which updates "Jane Eyre," or David Lodge's "Nice Work," which does ditto for Gaskell's "North and South," or Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs," a skewed perspective on "Great Expectations." Fielding's contribution to this growing genre (the nineteenth-century rewrite) is more openly self-aware than some, and she allows herself and Bridget to have an awful lot of fun with "Pride and Prejudice," even pointing comically to other versions of this classic, like the BBC series. I don't see this in the least as a detractor from one's enjoyment of "Bridget Jones." The one thing that does detract, for me, is the incessant inclusion, at the outset of every chapter, of updated data on Bridget's running battle with her weight and waistline. There are occasional comic variations on the theme, but I felt, for the most part, that they were a distraction that I soon came to disregard. Unlike the recipes that commence every chapter of Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate" and have significant symbolic resonance throughout the chapter they introduce, Fielding's chapter-epigraphs in lbs. and calories don't seem to add much to the ongoing story. (What's interesting is that Fielding apparently noticed this while writing the screenplay; in the film, she leaves them out after about the first five minutes, realizing that it was a trick that gets old fast.) But that's not much to complain about. Overall, I would recommend this book for its humor alone. However, add to that comedy a fairly well-crafted plot that pokes fun at a classic while yet paying it homage and bringing it up to date, and you've got a great, fun read. I totally enjoyed "Bridget Jones's Diary" and hope to read the sequel soon.
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Summary: good...but i prefered the movie
Review: This book was good. and if a movie hadn't been made about it, i probably wouldn't really miss it. however, i did read the book, then i went to the movie. the only reason i prefered the movie is because the style of writing it like a diary (which i know is half the point) got on my nerves. it made it harder to follow everything. overall, good book, pretty easy read, i read it in about a day and half.
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