Bridget Jones's Diary

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Summary: READ IT IN ONE SITTING, AND I AM A MAN
Review: ONE DAY OF SICKNESS FROM WORK, ONE DAY OF 'POT LUCK' READING FROM THE BOOK SHELF. RESULT HILARIOUS AND A PERFECT INSIGHT FOR ANY MAN INTO THE LIFE WOMEN ENDURE ! COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN !

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Summary: Males can now see why females are so irrational
Review: This is a book that is difficult to put down. Everyone has met a bridget jones character, and I can now see where the concept of Ally McBeal came from.

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Summary: Fun, Fun, Fun!!
Review: This book is an enjoyable, easy, humorous read. I couldn't wait to find out what she was going to do next! An all around great book!

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Summary: Why bother?
Review: I soon grew tired of reading how many cigarettes, how many calories, and how much weight Bridget had lost each day. I confess, I could not get beyond January. Maybe I am too old to remember, but I am sure I never obsessed about these subjects like Bridget. Perhaps my granddaughter could relate to it. My advice, forget it and I only gave it one star because there was no category below that.

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Summary: Funny and memorable!
Review: Bridget Jones is laugh out loud funny, and those who didn't think so are taking themselves, life, and books way too seriously. Every novel can't be War and Peace. Lighten up! I'm not Bridget, but I sure have done some embarassingly goofy things in my life, and it's good to be able to laugh at them. It's a fun book !

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Summary: This book is BRILLIANT!!!
Review: I will try and make this review short and sweet like our Miss Jones. This book is the funniest, sweetest, raunchiest most down to earth book ever!!!!! I have already recommended it to every woman I know. It's good to know that I am not the only crazy girl out there!!!

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Summary: For Laughing Out Loud
Review: It is so hard to find a good book about women that isn't overly philosophical or analytical- this book was just plain funny and right on the money. Even though there are some deeper meanings in the fact that Bridget is obsessed with how many calories she consumes and how many ounces she weighs- how many women could read this and not relate. Wonderfully refreshing- a great read. If you don't laugh out loud at least once or feel the urge to pass this book to your sister, mother, best friend or whatever- you read it upside down.

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Summary: Great airplane read.
Review: I'm fifty-something but found the book laugh-out-loud funny. It's perfect for reading on the plane. In fact, I had to force myself to save the second half for the journey home. I believe Bridget represents anyone, female or male, who has obsessed over a lover, and I have recommended the book to all of my 21-year-old daughter's friends who take themselves so seriously.

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Summary: Skip this book and read Sex and the City instead.
Review: I truly recommend that you NOT read this book. The author is British and writes in a vernacular that for the life of me I could not get a grasp on; words like "pudding" (for "pudding") and "answerphone" (for "answering machine") had me running to my thesaurus of quaint Britishisms in a Sisyphean, transatlantic struggle to get to the bottom of the book's titanic popularity. This is merely the tip of the iceberg. The literary device of using diary entries bespeaks a juvenile need for tidy chronology and an inability to structure a narrative beyond capsule form, but the worst offense is the narrator's documentation of her weight and calories, units of alcohol, and tobacco consumed each day. It's as if Samuel Pepys were a dreamy, teenage Cosmo reader. It struck me that this is the latest in a chain of contemporary imitations of Jane Austen (the most memorable being Clueless): a slightly over-the-hill woman whose relatives are desperate to get her married off, looking for the right man, finding him and ignoring him, hooking up with and being humiliated by the wrong one, before finally being rescued by and ending up with the Right One. It's a hoary chestnut that we never seem to tire of, but now I've saved you the time. Soon to be made into a major motion picture, probably starring the loathsome Gwyneth Paltrow.

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Summary: Listen to all the hype and READ THIS BOOK!
Review: I'd heard so much about "Bridget Jones' Diary" that I decided to pick it up. A British Ally McBeal? Single in the big city? I can relate. And relate I did! This book had me laughing out loud on the train. Bridget is so realistic that it hurts. I found bits of myself in Bridget and I'm sure lots of you will, too. The best compliment I can give a book is, "I didn't want it to end". That's how I felt about this book. Any chance for a sequel??