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Summary: Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
Review: So funny you will laugh out loud, this is one of the funniest books ever written. Any real woman can relate to Bridgets struggles. The wit is sharp the pace is fast, you can't put it down. A Classic of our time, I am sure this book has launched a thousand imitations.Hilarious
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Summary: Love troubles of the middle aged woman
Review: If you are looking for the light, funny novel you are checking out the right book. It seems that modern western women have the same doubts, love difficulties and such, no matter what country they live in. Helen Fielding is not telling us anything new, but she has certainly found the right voice and tone in which this novel is delivered to the reading audience.
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Summary: Absolutely hilarious!
Review: This book was recommended to me by several people, and when I finally picked it up, I wasn't disappointed. Fielding has somehow managed to capture the thoughts of every woman in Bridget's story, making all of her readers identify with her character's tribulations. The obvious parallels between this and Austen's Pride and Prejudice only add to its charm, appeal, and humor. I highly recommend this to any woman who has ever believed she was the only one to suffer from one thing or another. It's very comforting to discover that you are not the only one!
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Summary: Over-hyped and overrated ...
Review: A friend lent me this book but told me not to bother returning it - to give it to a charity shop if I didn't want to keep it. She thought it was quite amusing but nothing special - and when I had read the book I agreed with her. There is nothing new or original here and the book is not even very funny. I found Bridget very childish and self-obsessed for a woman in her thirties - in fact much of the book reminded me of a diary I used to keep when I was fourteen! I thought H.Fielding was trying to copy the Adrian Mole diaries without really succeeding - probably because Sue Townsend is a much funnier writer. This book reminds me of the Harry Potter series in that it seems to have been hyped up into becoming an international best-seller, without really offering anything new to the reader. It's a averagely good book to read on the beach - not a scintillating insight into the life of a single woman ...
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Summary: The incredible way we think
Review: This book is almost insultingly funny. You can relate to the character Bridget and the strange things she does on her quest to find the perfect live, job and weight and at the same time laugh incredebly hard about it. It's a way to see all your own struggles in a different light and realise your not the only one. A book to read on a drowsy sunday morning after a dreadful date while eating a box of chocolate.
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Summary: Hilarious novel based on real life
Review: This comic read is truly based on real life. The reader meets Bridget a single, young English woman. She is constantly being pestered by her mother and all of her mother's friends about being single. She is ready to start off a new year by making herself new year's resolutions such as: to quit smoking and to lose weight. Helen Fielding wrote a truly brilliant novel. The characters are easy to relate to and will make the reader laugh out loud. Read this for a peek inside a woman's soul.
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Summary: Don't Keep Out
Review: Bridget Jones's Diary, by Helen Fielding, is so funny that many of its flaws are overshadowed by its hilarity. The plot, for example, simply chronicles a year in the ordinary life of Bridget, a thirty-year-old single female set for self-improvement. However, by amusingly presenting Bridget's obsession with matters such as weight and alcohol consumption, Fielding brings the story to life, making the most ordinary story extraordinary. The plot, simple as it may be, also works to endear readers to Bridget and her diary. Her struggle to fight, yet failure to overcome a nicotine addiction and other humanistic desires allows the reader to relate to Bridget and all her imperfections. The fact that Bridget tackles realistic problems to begin with takes the reader one step further and allows the reader to actually be Bridget. Best of all, Fielding delivers this mastery in an easy to read, easy to follow, neatly arranged package. Chapters go by months, days start with cigarette, calorie, and lottery ticket counts, and relatively short dialogue appears randomly scattered throughout. Being a quick, easy novel relating to female nature and relative to the female mind, Bridget Jones's Diary is the perfect read for any woman in need of nothing more than a good laugh.
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Summary: Bridget Jones's Diary: A review
Review: I really admire the way Bridget keeps control (mostly) through this whole book. Every time she writes an entery to her diary she always lists the amount of alcohol she has consumed, ciggarates she has smoked and how much weight she has gained. Keeping up with this, is true dedication to quitting her nasty habbits. Although she never completely quits all of them. I really have never read any other books in this type of genre, it really sits in a class all by itself. It kept me reading throughout most of the book because of the constant comedy it provided. This is a very good book to model after if you are trying to write a personal narrative. It's easier to keep track of events as you go rather than trying to remember them all as they happened to you. This is accomplished by using the diary theme. I feel that this way Bridgets character is brought to life more by being able to reveal her inner-most thoughts on herself and on the others around her. My favorite parts of the book are her confrontations with her mother. I know that if I am ever thirty something and single, my mother would act the same way. This also points out Helen Fieldings use of dialoge to bring comedy throughout the piece. "OH hello darling. I was just ringing to see what you wanted for Christmas." "Christmas?" "Would you like a surprise darling?" "NO!" I bellowed. "Sorry, I mean.." "I wondered if you'd like a set of wheels for your suitcase." "But I haven't got a suitcase." "Why dont I get you a little suitcase with wheels attached. You know like air hostesses have." "I've already got a bag" This scene in the book provided comedy and a way to relate to the character. Everyone in their life has had a conversation like this with their mother. Situations with her mother provides comedy through the whole book. I really enjoyed reading this book, for the comic relief. I really think this book is more for women. Men really wouldn't be able to relate to the more female humor.
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Summary: A definite must read!
Review: This novel is one of the funniest books I have ever read. The way Fielding phrases things is hysterical. The novel always keeps you interested and throws in people and situations that a lot of people can recognize. I recommend "Diary" to everyone. The sequal is also very good.
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Summary: It's Not all Tea and Crumpets!!!
Review: Life for the slightly neurotic, modern thirty something single girl in London is not easy. This novel, recommended by my son, is funny, and had me in tears (laughter and some kind of common female bonding thing). Bridget worries about her weight, her health and her love life. Her mother (who is going through a mid-life crisis, leaving her husband for a man named Julio) tries to fix her up with a man who wears a patterned sweater, but Bridget and her boss are in the midst of a torrid e-mail flirtation. Hope they make a movie of it! Good for fun reading. I bought this book while on a holiday in London, stayed up all night when I should have been sleeping my way through jet lag! I also bought the sequel, in case we didn't have it over here - imagine my surprise to find out this is a top seller in the US!
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