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Summary: Absolutely Brilliant!
Review: I am completely obsessed with this book! I even resumed writing in my own journal. I laughed aloud the entire time (I read it in a flash). I felt like I was reading about myself and my 29 year old British cousin wrapped into one. Luckily, I already seen firsthand the UK obsession with Blind Date, Cilla Black etc. but some Americans might not be able to appreciate everything. I would give anything to find another book as engrossing. Helen, please please please write the sequel!
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Summary: pretty good, but....
Review: ...a bit of a let down as so many people had recommended it to me I was expecting the best thing since sliced bread! Having said that however, it was pretty good and I did laugh out loud a couple of times and get the forewarned strange looks on the tube!I'm only 24, but some of what BJ went on about rung true, like the weight which would appear from nowhere and the infatuation with a Daniel who funnily enough also works in my office!ha! ha! I wonder how accurate however the portrayal of finding your Darcy literally shoved in your face is???? answers on a postcard!! Good for you BJ who taught me if it'll happen then just bide your time - oh and also not to give dinner parties. Full stop, whether they be on work days/nights or weekends but to - Just call for the caterer darling, you know the caterer! the one who supplies you with all the food!!
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Summary: Clever Chapter Intros Influence Reader's Writing Style
Review: Number of times read book in one week 2 (g.), references to locations in Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" 2 (that I caught) (v.g.), number of people annoyed by laughter while reading 5 (v.g.), glances at photo of author on back flap 50 (v.v.g.), number of times considered changing name to Mark Darcy 50 (v.v.bad), alcohol units 0 (I swear) (v.v.suspect).
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Summary: Bridget Jones is not Ally McBeal!!
Review: I'm english and had the pleasure of reading Bridget Jones' Diary a year or so ago, so I was really interested to see what Americans would make of a book that I really enjoyed, but thought it was very 'british' in it's humour. And now I know! When in doubt, relate it to something familiar!! Bridget Jones is not a british version of Ally McBeal - believe it or not the british are capable of thinking up something original, without relating to an American counterpart. Bridget is a realistic character, who survives in a very familiar world. Ally McBeal is wet and pathetic and quite frankly I marvel at how she gets through the day alive, let alone wins legal cases. Can't someone out there enjoy the book for what it is, a goodnatured satire on the thirty something culture in the UK, without trying to stake a US claim on it. Not everything is 'Made in the US' - and thank goodness for that if Ally McBeal is anything to go by.
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Summary: Finally, the world has Bridget Jones!!
Review: I have not laughed out loud while reading a book in ages. I recommend this to any twenty-something or thirty-something who has to deal with the pressures (and FUN) of leading the single life! It's not all bad, and Bridget helps us realize that...even through all her trials and tribulations.
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Summary: Brilliantly funny and true to life!
Review: Couldn't but help laugh out loud right throughout this book. If you are a woman, you must read it! There are many little quirky moments I am sure we can all identify with, especially when dealing with the single/dating scene and all the neurotic thoughts that go with it. Also cleverly written in the diary format as you can't wait to see what happens each day. I hope to see a follow on from this book or at least another one from the author.
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Summary: This is a good encouragement to keep up a diary!
Review: I'm not sure why my mother gave this to me around my 20th birthday, but I suspect it's got something to do with the fact that I became a bit of a diarist myself just under a year previously. In any case, I'm glad she did, because it is a very funny book. But I don't write like Bridget Jones!
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Summary: CAPTIVATING, SIDE SPLITTINGLY FUNNY, A MUST
Review: This is the book that most of England has read. It has a wonderful story and at its heart a wonderful new leading female character. For all of us who have loved, lost and lived this is our book. I defy you not to laugh out loud at least several times. Read this book and then look at your own life. A wonderful, wonderful book! Hope it does just as well in America as it has in London. Beautifully written, caustically funny, always believable and always fabulous. One of the books of the year.
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Summary: Some good chuckles, but don't get your hopes too high
Review: "Bridget Jones's Diary" is a fun read, but you're courting disappointment if you set your hopes too high, either for bellylaughs or for pertinence to the lives of thirty-something singletons. For every howler worthy of Seinfeld's Elaine there's a dud worthy of the funny pages' Cathy. What kept me going was the occasionally inscrutable Englishness of of the book. It's not "Trainspotting", but nevertheless there are moments when American readers are likely to scratch their heads and wonder what on earth bridget is talking about.
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Summary: Hilarious Sue Townsend rip-off
Review: Okay. As a 30-something woman battling her own array distracting obsessions while forging ahead on the childless career path, I feel amply qualified to pronounce "Bridget Jones's Diary" absolutely hilarious. (Frightening in its own way, but hilarious nonetheless.) But I'm puzzled as to why novelist Helen Fielding seems to be raking in so much praise for rehashing the same sorts of material (and in the same sorts of ways) visited first and best by Sue Townsend in her Adrian Mole diaries. The parental break-up, the obsession with personal appearance, the preoccupation with self-worth, and the insipid detailing of each and every social encounter-Bridget might well be Adrian trapped in a woman's body. Substitute Daniel for Pandora, and you've got a tidy cut-n-paste rewarming of Townsend's books. Not that that detracts from the full-on fun of this engaging summer read, but let's give a little credit where credit is due. Bridget's closest competitor is not Ally McBeal, but skinny, angst-ridden, acne-inflicted oddity Adrian Mole.
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