Bridget Jones's Diary

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Summary: I thought this book was fun reading.
Review: If you need a book to take you away from your daily routine and worry about someone elses, this will do that for you. I thought the writing was good and the story line moved quick enought for me to want to keep reading.

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Summary: Mildly diverting, but hyped to death
Review: There's nothing inherently bad about this book if you take it as a light-hearted piece of entertainment. Nothing wrong with that; it isn't remotely realistic, it's stereotyped, it doesn't pretend to either originality or literacy (I hope!). I read it in the bath, then gave it away to someone else. However: I do find it slightly worrying to see so many people who genuinely see this book as a kind of manual for the times. No-one is saying Bridget is real. God help us, surely no-one is saying we should be like Bridget. As far as I know, a generation of adolescents didn't suddenly develop a craving to be Adrian Mole. Be amused if you can. Be very amused (if you can, I just managed the odd smile). But please don't let's pretend this is literature.....

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Summary: To love or to hate - that is the question
Review: I pride myself with being a rational, well educated, fairly successful woman in a great long-term relationship, but I just can't deny that deep down inside of me lives a starved and suppressed Bridget Jones who loved this book more than almost anything I've ever read. Sure - it's a gross exaggeration of all the stereotype female irrationalities that ever existed, but I think most women can identify Bridget with all the things that they are constantly fighting so hard not to be, but can't help being at times. Loving or hating Bridget Jones is only a matter of if you are able to laugh at these dismal facts and find comfort in that at least you are not alone, or get into a state of complete denial and frustration over that everyone else loves this book!!!

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Summary: Neurotic, then again, aren't we all?
Review: For those of you who have read the series about 'Adrian Mole', this is the female version (even to the bit about her parents' "crisis")of Mole. Indirectly funny yet horrifying when you think about the circumstances that Jones puts herself through.

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Summary: What a hysterical read!!!
Review: I have not read a good book or had a rather good laugh until I met Bridget Jones! Her and her Singleton friends are an absolute crack up. This book is a must read for all twenty and thirty somethings! I love Bridget's wit and humor and how Helen Fielding potrays her as a real 90's woman. I can't stop laughing with Bridget even after I put the book down!

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Summary: five stars bad, one star good
Review: If you're a woman and you gave this book five stars, you deserve everything you presently have in your life. If you're a woman and you gave this book one star, may you be blessed with a life that is filled with wonderment, inquiry and discrimination. And may your kids be good looking and intelligent too! Is that hollow laughter I hear ? - No that's just Bridget actingt natural...

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Summary: Line up for a lobotomy here....
Review: I cannot believe the people who think this book deserves five stars: The prose is dire. The plot non-existant, the humour thin, and the character nauseatingly self-obsessed and hollow. I'm not anti-entertainment or fun, but on a scale of 1 -10 for sharp humour, this merits a wane smile (0.5) rather than my-eyes-are-about-to-pop-out-and-I-can't-breath and-think-I'm-about-to-die-for-laughing-so-hard (10) I've had a few women acquaintances tell me that it's true to life, which only goes to confirm a stereotype of women as neurotic and empty-headed. I don't know - maybe the world is turning into a huge trailer park with cable TV production values. However, this book has spawned a market of wannabe novelists and tv shows where being single or weight obsessed is the critical issue - sign of the times, sign of the times. If there was ever a case of dumbing down - this is it. Maybe if I got a lobotomy I would see the light - but what would happen if after that I still couldn't get the point of this book? That would be tragic....

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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This is one of the best books I've read in quite a while. It does have a touch of the trashiness that can be found in books by Steel, Rice, and even Grisham, but by no means is this book like another title in the back. This is a really LOL book.

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Summary: As good as everyone says
Review: Simply put: Read this book. I can think of no funnier book ... ever. And it is true what everyone says: this book WILL make you laugh out loud, so only read it in the presence of people who know you, because everyone else will think you are a stark raving lunatic when you start cracking up uncontrollably. By the way, I am male, so this book does not just appeal to females.

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Summary: What a stupid book!
Review: Bridget Jones's Diary is a stupid waste of time. I was so disappointed because there has been so much good press about this book, but I found it to be shallow and insincere. Bridget is a total whiner and her mother is a terrible person. I wouldn't recommend that anyone read this trash.