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Summary: Ally eat your heart out
Review: This novel is my favourite of the year. It made me laugh so much, and makes me laugh still. It was also very touching. OK, Bridget might not be the most deep and introspective of people, but she is REAL. I know everybody says this, but I feel like I've met her and all her mates before! Absolutely hilarious ... a major achievement for British fiction.
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Summary: Laugh out loud funny, pre Ally McBeal - and so much better
Review: This is one of the funniest books I've ever read. (I laughed out loud reading it in public). It's a mix of very smart wit with cringing (but still very funny) reality. I know her, I used to be her! Much more fun than Ally McBoring, even to a "smug married" like me.
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Summary: This book is a hysterical look at the single womans lot.
Review: I loved this book. Bridget Jones is a single woman in her thirty somethings who is mildly successful careerwise but struggles with her love life somewhat. I love the way that this book demonstrates that to be a single woman these days means that your business is everyone elses. Great read. I felt that it could drag on a bit in some places and that there was the cliche of the female who could not cope without her male gay friend. I feel that this is an overdone theme in books, TV and movies at the moment.
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Summary: Can it get any better?
Review: I read this book in one sitting, constantly checking how many pages I left to read, and getting very upset that they were decreasing in number. This does not happen very often. I love Bridget Jones! She writes about her life so truthfully! If you enjoyed this, I recommend HIGH FIDELITY by Nick Hornby.
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Summary: Empty calories
Review: Reading DIARY is like eating potato chips--hard to stop, not very nutritious, and resulting in a sick feeling when you're finished. The popularity of this novel is the only reason to read it, after which one can only marvel at the response of readers who loudly proclaim that the vacuous, spiritually bankrupt Bridget is "just like me!" Our secret, shallow tendencies are charming when they are presented in opposition to, and at war with, our more profound nature--since Bridget has no depth, her obsessions with weight and men are not comical, but pathetic. Fielding's clumsy parallel with Pride and Prejudice will elude those readers who wouldn't touch Austen's novel with a ten- foot mascara wand and simply annoy everyone else, so what's the point?
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Summary: ...but it made me LAUGH!
Review: okay, i see where all the negative reviews are coming from...but i liked this book for precisely the reasons they hated it. yes, it was vapid, but isn't life? yes, it was contrived, but it's FICTION!!! hello? i LOVED every second of the three hours it took me to read this book. just don't expect too much or you'll be SORELY disappointed. think of it the same way you think of Ally McBeal. if you love her for what she is, then you'll love this. if not, go pick up _Memoirs of a Geisha_ or something.
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Summary: An essential reference guide for any single girl
Review: Okay, so it's not exactly Booker Prize winning material, but it is laugh out loud funny, and if at the end of reading it, you recognise part of Bridget Jones in yourself, then the book has done what it set out to do. A smart, sophisticated, yet much more kooky English version of Ally McBeal
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Summary: Calm down, take it for what its worth
Review: This book is great, reading all of these reviews, it seams assome are asking too much. This is not a world moving nobel prize winnerthat is making a statement on the female culture. This is a great book that any woman can relate to in some way or another (as i'm sure men could too if we could get them to read the book). This is a fast read for city train/bus rides. i found myself amidst an audience of people thinking I was crazy as i sat on the bus laughing out loud while reading as Bridget jumped around stuck in a dress in the fitting room. This is not a refined masterpiece of literature for ages, however a wonderful contemporary, lighthearted novel. READ It, its great!
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Summary: I laughed...I cried.
Review: I loved this book. It was like a day at Disney World...just plain fun. I felt like it could've been my own diary I was reading...only a lot funnier. I truly hated to finish this book. Hope she writes a sequel.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is one of the funniest books I have ever read. Even better than Adrian Mole. I think every woman can relate to something Bridget Jones is going through. I loved the hairdryer bit where she thought she had been stood up! I think she was in desperate need of The Rules!!!!!
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