Bridget Jones's Diary

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Summary: Very funny!
Review: Eventhough I come from a different culture, I could relate to Bridget in many situations (well, who hasn't been stood up, used food for comfort, etc.?). I enjoyed the book very much and it was hard to put it down!

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Summary: This book will make you laugh out loud!
Review: Helen Fielding knows how to develop characters that you relate to and care about. Bridget Jones is wonderful and funny, she's really one of us. Her friends and family members are great too. I couldn't put this book down and found myself laughing out loud more than once. Now that I'm finished, I miss Bridget. Can't wait for Fielding's next book.

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Summary: Sleep Aides Not Needed
Review: I'm so glad my life is not like this. This is so unrealistic. For someone to constantly check weight, calories, fags.... on a daily basis -- no wonder she isn't married or can truly concentrate on a relationship as the total focus of her life is herself. I travel to Europe pretty regularly and have never read this author's column (if I had done so I would have not purchased this book). Come back to reality......

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Summary: The book is funny because it mirrors most single women's liv
Review: I enjoyed it because it is so funny and so true and could very well have been written 30 years ago when I struggled with issues of parental values and pressures, marriage as a status symbol, troubled relationships between the sexes, and constant, albeit unsuccessful,efforts at self-improvement. The only differences are technological. What a great comic portrayal of a single woman fighting the same universal struggles!

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Summary: A modern & better version of a Mills & Boon romance!
Review: Don't knock Mills & Boon - they're escapist, simple & innocent. Helen Fielding has done it better - charming, funny, expressive. Bridget & company represent the modern feminist wannabe who are romantics at heart. Who isn't, really? She has captured the essence of today's Singleton. I'm a 'Smug Married' in fact but a Singleton in spirit, and I'm not even British! This may not be classic literature & I'm sure Helen didn't plan it to be. It's light, pure dramedy - I was smiling & chuckling every few pages! For those who can't appreciate it for what it is, how sad! Get a life - laugh, take it easy, have a glass of wine, smoke! Not every word needs to be analysed to death. Thanks Helen for showing another aspiring writer another way of creating art.

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Summary: The funniest book I've ever read!
Review: This book is laugh-out-loud funny, endearing, heart breaking and smart....usually all at the same time! You do not need to be English to appreciate's Bridget's sense of humor. Her neurotic take on life and the dilemmas she struggles with daily, transcend all cultural boundaries. I did not want the book to end and I know I will be reading it again and again!

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Summary: Pathetic!
Review: Call me crazy but i didn't get this one. i am in my late twenties and dont see marriage in the near (or distant, for that matter) future so i thought id be able to relate to this one. Boy was I wrong! By the end of the novel I wanted to strangle Bridget AND the author. Ive never read of a more pathetic existence. I kept thinking that the "main idea" (think English class 8th grade) was that without a man, youre nothing. Do all of the readers who LOVED this one agree with that? that all women think about is men and calories? get real! the one thing this book did for me was make me feel good about myself becuase i DONT worry about those things constantly. If women genuinely resonated with this one, we've got some prioritizing to do.

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Summary: Days in a year or how Bridget got a life !
Review: At first this book was as enjoyable a read as Anne Frank's educatiionally assigned diary. In other words, the first 1/3 of this book was like root canal. As a man with old fashioned type values I take no pleasure in the private sordid sexual obsessions of an immature, narcisist like Bridget Jones. Initials are BJ, if you don't get the drift ask Ms. Lewinsky. I was surprized and satisfied as the book began to take shape with maturing plot lines, particularly the developing relationship between Jones and Mark, as well as the devolution of her parent's relationship. Until the point that the plots started to materialize the book had been leaving me empty, a mere torture to listen this self absorbed neurotic's ravings. All turned out well in the end, and I am glad I stayed with it. However, I think it will be another 15 years before I read another young woman's diary.

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Summary: funny
Review: The diary reminds me of today's woman almost like t.v.'s Ally Mcbeal. Sure, she is self-indulgent and self-doubting but I think she represents alot of young single female professionals trying to make it in this world. It left me anticipating for a sequel. Does she and Mark Darcy stay together? It would be fun to see their relationship grow.

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Summary: I loved it - and so did all my friends
Review: I can not even remember the last time I read a book so funny that I almost fell off the couch, as I did with Bridget (yes, I feel like I know her well enough to call her by her first name). I have now forced half-a-dozen of my friends to read it, and they have all adored it - one stayed home for two days to finish it, another ignored her recently-arrived-from-overseas boyfriend until she finished reading December, and a third stayed up all night reading and laughing herself silly. No, Bridget isn't the ideal woman. But she's what we all are sometimes - and she has irony and wit to go with her neuroses.