Bridget Jones's Diary

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Summary: I Love this book!
Review: This is triumphant work from Helen Fielding.I feel that Bridget Jones and I are one in the same. This is a page turning quick read that keeps you giggling especially if you can relate to any of the drama in Bridgets life. I'm eagerly anticipating another year of Bridget's life.This is a great book!

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Summary: The perils of contemporary womanhood
Review: Extremely droll in that unmistakable manner in which the English excel, and utterly hilarious, Bridget Jones lays bare the confusion of many modern young women. Like it or not, she (via gifted author Fielding) clearly exposes today's all-too-common yet conflicting desires to be at once beautiful, organized, virtuous, sexy, independent, thin, competent, self-indulgent, domestic, accomplished, and married. I laughed out loud at almost every page --when I wasn't wincing.

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Summary: A fun weekend read!
Review: You won't find any profound truths or deeply emotional plot lines in this book. Those readers looking for a heavy, convoluted story line should look elsewhere. This is a book meant for women who want a fun and light read with lots of giggles (and maybe for those men who might want a little insight into the minds of women). Any woman who has dated or who has worried about a career (especially the over-29 set) will find at least a few similarities between herself and Bridget. Read this book on a lazy weekend while consuming 5000 calories and smoking 27 fags....

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Summary: Witty and honest
Review: I loved this book. It is refreshingly honest and so funny! It makes the reader feel understood and validated. We've all been there-- frustrated, hopeful, confused, and ecstatic all in the same day over some of the same situations. We just can't always put it in to words. We can all relate to Bridget Jones' day-to-day accounting of home, work, relationships, emotions, ups, and downs. I laughed and cried with her. Bridget's thoughts and feelings are so well-expressed that we know exactly where she's "coming from." Great book!

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Summary: Glorified romance novel
Review: This book wasn't nearly as funny as I had anticipated based on all the hype, though I enjoyed it once I got 12-13 "days" into it. Basically, this is just a re-packaged romance novel.

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: I couldn't put it down once I started it. This book is a great read for anyone who's ever been dumped or dumped on. Totally funny!

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Summary: A shallow, pathetic look at career women in the nineties
Review: This book is funny for about five minutes (and I'm being generous)... Bridget Jones is a classic example of a shallow, pathetic woman who views her career as a way to find a suitable husband, defines herself by who she sleeps with, how much she weighs, and sees parties as opportunities to get drunk. You keep hoping that she will see the light and start to grow up but she never does and the book never seems to end. So much more could have been done with this character, I expected a lot more...

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Summary: you read and you can't stop laughing!
Review: when I first read Bridget's diary I couldn't stop laughing. secound reading made me feel somehow emmbarresed - she's telling all of our little secrets in public! oh my god. now all the boys know.... and yet, I thank the day this book came in my way. what a joy!

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Summary: Just what the chauvinists have been trying to say...
Review: Sure, it's an interesting story, a page-turner at times, but I can't see how some people are so enthusiastic and can relate!!! It only shows how that women can only be happy once she finds a man, and, as the story goes, Bridget wastes the entire year searching for 'the perfect gu-uy' and grumbles about everything else. It sounds more like the diary of an immature sixteen year-old. By her thirties at this time and age, she should have been trying to achieve the 'Woman of the 90's' outlook, but she just transported us back to the 50's, when the utter desire of the average woman was to land a man and make babies. Most readers (and to think WOMEN!!!) were so ecstatic in saying 'this is THE woman of the 90's!' but it's more like a regression to the unliberated thinking of the 50's woman. To make it worse, she works through the diary having spontaneous sex. I suppose by the year 2000 she'd have probably contracted STD.

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Summary: The brits git jiggy
Review: Bridget reminds me of Bertie Wooster as a chick - if you liked this book, read some Wodehouse (Thank you, Jeeves et al). V. funny. Ms. Fielding owes a huge debt to Wodehouse and Austen - the journey of the perpetual singleton continues...