Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Pros: a little funny - at times; you'll never be as shallow as Bridget Jones
Cons: shallow story, obsessive character, turned my mind to mush

Ever since the movie came out, I'd wanted to read the book Bridget Jones's Diary. I'd heard the movie was hilarious, and books are usually better - so....

But all that was before I saw the books cover? Can you say "Scary"?!

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Pros: Good enough to make you cuss at Bridget.
Cons: Shallow.

Bridget Jones’s Diary must be a decent book, or I would not be totally fed up with Bridget. You don’t get tiffed at a fictional character, unless she’s pretty “real” on paper. No. Bridget is not real. Yes. She does make me...

Pros: Funny, engaging characters and situations; effective caricature of the modern "Cosmo" woman stereotype
Cons: A bit tedious at times. About as much depth as your average rain puddle.

Imagine you wanted to design a time capsule that when opened thousands of years from now would leave no doubt that women at the beginning of 21st century were vacuous bimbos whose lives revolved around obsession about their appearance and a constant hunt...

Pros: A few funny places
Cons: Not an entertaining read

Just before we left Israel for England, my friend Ilana was reading Bridget Jones' Diary and really enjoying it. Thus, when I got to England and saw the book on sale at the book store, I picked it up. All I can say is that I hope the movie is better than...

Pros: Funny passages in places.
Cons: You want the whole list in 15 words? Can't be done!

~ Monday, 14 May

148 lbs., alcohol units 0, cigarettes 0, calories 8250

Alcohol units a definite mistake. (note to self, find out
exactly what an alcohol unit is) Some mind numbing...

Pros: Entertaining, light reading, great for those who love all things British
Cons: vapid, (but isn't that a little necessary?)

The voyeur in me loved this book. I mean, really, to see how many calories and alcoholic drinks a person ingests each day... It's priceless.

I found myself wondering how Bridget could drink so much and still function. And then I had to...

Pros: Bridget is a pioneer in lateness to work.
Cons: She has to hang out the window to smoke at her parent's house.

"I hate communal changing rooms. Everyone stares sneakily at each other's bodies, but no one ever meets anyone's eye. There are always girls who know they look fantastic in everything...saying 'Does this make me look fat?' to their...

Pros: Sporadically funny British novel lampooning the desperation of 'singletons'.
Cons: Possibly not a lampoon. Almost too British in spots for the average American.

Pros: interesting, great characters, good banter between folk
Cons: not long enough

Bridget Jone's Diary

This 1996 #1 national bestseller was written by Helen Fielding and portrays the life of Bridget Jones throughout the year. Brought to the reader in true diary form the text is priceless.

Obsessed with weight,...

Pros: Not terribly long
Cons: Everything Else

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT a review of the movie - I haven't seen the movie. This is a review of the book.

I listened to the audio book version of Bridget Jones's Diary yesterday, while on a road trip to meet...

Pros: Relatively Short
Cons: Keep reading............

With regards to the Bridget Jones Diary I was a little late catching the boat. "Read it, friends remarked, its hysterical!" Well I'm always on the search for humorous books, especially invovling women who are easy to relate to. What I got when...

Pros: It's short
Cons: But not short enough

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 "answerphone" (for "answering machine") and "pudding" (for...

Pros: Funny, insightful look into someone else's life
Cons: the British language, can not think anymore without a British accent

I never knew this book existed until after the movie came out. I still haven't seen the movie (want to) but decided to take the book out from the local library. Bridget is one of those books, for me at least, that is hard to get into. After I...

Pros: Likable characters, clever scenarios, humorous writing
Cons: Not long enough.

After an ugly ending to a disastrous romance, I found myself sitting at Heathrow Airport with a three hour delay in front of me and 40 Pounds Sterling in my pocket. Having absolutely no desire to cash in this money, I found a bookstore in which to...

Pros: great portrait of modern woman
Cons: Hmm, there's no real positive role models

Bridget Jones is either something you "get", or something you don't, and I feel sorry for those people out there on whom this observant, witty piece of writing is lost. The truth is, you don't have to be a guilt-laden thirty-something deafened...