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Summary: I couldn't put it down!
Review: This book was really funny, and I really could relate to Bridget's character. I read this book after I read Confessions of a Shopaholic, and have to admit, they are both really well written. I loved the weight gain/loss log, and had to laugh at the "v.g" comments. The end synopsis of her year was great!
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Summary: HILARIOUS
Review: This is one of the funniest books that I have read in a long while. Although this is written from the point-of-view of a single woman living in the London area, anyone can relate to Bridget Jones.Her daily entries which lists her daily weight, calorie count, alcohol/cigarette consumption is quite humourous especially for anyone who has ever tried to quit. This is a book that you will not want to put down!
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Summary: could do better
Review: Helen Fielding is clearly a very talented writer, and 'Bridget Jones' is a very entertaining read. I do suspect, though, and hope, that she has a better book in her. You sometimes feel when reading this that Fielding is not quite telling it like she wants to, and is holding back for some reason. I'm a big fan of Brit Lit, and while I would recommend this, I do think that there are much better books of this kind out there, like India Knight's 'My Life on a Plate'. It's hilarious, politically incorrect, intelligent, and unlike 'Bridget Jones', you really feel that Knight is saying everything that she wants to say. By comparison, fun and entertaining as 'Bridget Jones' is, it reads like only half the truth.
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Summary: Ab Fab!
Review: I just recently read this book in preparation for the upcoming movie release, and I absolutely laughed out loud. You can absolutely see Bridget jumping off the page as she stumbles through her commitments to her family, career, friends, social life and even her laundry. I hope the movie is as good as the book and I can't wait to see Hugh Grant and Renee Zellweger bring these characters to life.
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Summary: A Mite Boring
Review: Bridget Jones cares about a few things: Her fluctuating weight, "spots", the quest to obtain a boyfriend/husband, clothing, and breaking her cigarette and alcohol habit. She drags you with her over the course of a year, documenting her varying level of success with the above listed areas. There's not much else to this book. It's a very simple, shallow, occasionally (briefly) entertaining book. If you can't bear to miss an episode of Ally McBeal and you always scan the magazine rack for the latest issue of Cosmopolitan, you'll probably love the book. Everybody else might want to keep moving.
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Summary: Bridget Jones & I Were Separated at Birth!
Review: Funny, crazy and totally in the now! I loved this book. I can identify with Bridget's total neuroses...work, love, sex, weight loss, weight gain, making promises to higher beings in order to get a roll in the sac and white wine. So what that it's slightly common and not deep and not...? I loved it nonetheless. If you're a woman in your 30's, live in a big city and are single, this book is for you.
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Summary: Puh - lease
Review: This overhyped novel seemed somehow familiar to me, when I suddenly realized that it was merely a much much longer prose riff on the Waitresses' "Cristmas Wrapping" song from the early 80's (listen, you'll agree). Save yourself the anxiety brought on by reading the book and go listen to the song. P.S. Any book that suggests that a medium height woman at 130 pounds is overweight, should be nominated for an Annie B.(the award given to cultural images that cause eating disorders in young women and girls). Sick.
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Summary: An excellent book all young women can relate to!
Review: This book was an absolute joy to read. Bridget Jones is a character that is so easy to relate to. This book is the type that is interesting from the beginning and stays that way through the end. I deeply recommend this one to anyone in their 20's or 30's!
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Summary: A very funny and light read
Review: I guess I'm late on the bandwagon as I just picked this book up the other day. It's a very quicky and easy read. I didn't necessarily think it was "hysterical", but it had it's moments where I was highly amused. I think this book comically conveys that society as a whole expect that women, once in their thirties, to get married and start having children. And if they don't, then they are unhappy. And then there's the other side of the coin - the married thirty-somethings, although somewhat content in their married lives, sometimes wish they were single again as they crave that freedom of singledom. A double-edged sword. I believe it portrays a very realistic view of those expectations as well as the flaws in both of those generalizations. Some people may see this book as a stereotypical view of women. A thirty-something women is obsessed about her weight, men, smoking, being alone. But haven't all women, at one time or another, experienced those same apprehensions? I know that I have. While I've never gone to the extreme that Bridget has, I can relate. And so, I relished with great interest, what would happen to Bridget next. I also liked the group of people around Bridget, it was good to see that see had such good friends. I definitely recommend this book. It may help you realize that maybe you shouldn't take things so seriously. No doubt about it - it's a fun book!
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Summary: v. good read, v. hysterical
Review: This is a must read for any woman who has been through the twenty-something singles experience. My book group read this, and it was the best discussion we have ever had. (a lot of wine was consumed that nightm and the next day there were many hungover e-mails sent back and forth in bridget-speak) It is hysterically funny and satisfying at the end. I also recommend the sequel.
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