The review is taken from this website http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/227443.Bridget_Jones_s_Diary
"Gawd, this book was criminally hilarious. I sat in the doctor's office waiting room literally snorting into my Nine West handbag (there's something really metal about being a minimum wage worker who chooses to buy labels instead of food) as I cradled my Kobo in my lap, with Bridget Jones and her life of ridiculous shenanigans all over the black and white screen. Needless to say, the people I waited with were unimpressed. They are probably not the first to wonder why someone like me would carry anything as elegant as Nine West.
Sometimes I wonder that, too.
Honestly? I took off a star because I was highly disappointed with the rushed and nonsensical ending. But the rest of this book? Pure gold. A little warning, though: this is not a shiny, polished tale of the stereotypical (and in real life, extremely rare) uptown and sophisticated south-English thirtysomething. It's an incredibly and often shamefully honest portrayal of a woman who likes sex and cigarettes and drinking and her foul-mouthed friends. It's not The Young Victoria. It's modern Britain, like nobody wants to see it.
Sure, it's a little ham-fisted in places. I won't say it doesn't idealize relationships, and get a little bizarre here and there. But who cares? I picked this book up expecting to be entertained. It exceeded those expectations."
I agree with the most of her arguments. Bridget doesn't look like a typical English woman; if I didn't know that the action takes place in Britain I would say that Bridget is from America. Because even now I have some stereotypes - British people are strict and a bit arrogant but all of them are gentlemen and Bridget sure differs from it. The book is absolutely fair to the imperfect woman but the end of the story is doubtful. She has found a prince and now their lives will be long and happy. The end is divorced from reality. But finally I can't argue that the book is mostly for entertainment. It shouldn't make you to think about the meaning of life. It's light reading for people who want to forget about their own problems by dipping to not so important for them Bridget's problems.
"Gawd, this book was criminally hilarious. I sat in the doctor's office waiting room literally snorting into my Nine West handbag (there's something really metal about being a minimum wage worker who chooses to buy labels instead of food) as I cradled my Kobo in my lap, with Bridget Jones and her life of ridiculous shenanigans all over the black and white screen. Needless to say, the people I waited with were unimpressed. They are probably not the first to wonder why someone like me would carry anything as elegant as Nine West.
Sometimes I wonder that, too. Honestly? I took off a star because I was highly disappointed with the rushed and nonsensical ending. But the rest of this book? Pure gold. A little warning, though: this is not a shiny, polished tale of the stereotypical (and in real life, extremely rare) uptown and sophisticated south-English thirtysomething. It's an incredibly and often shamefully honest portrayal of a woman who likes sex and cigarettes and drinking and her foul-mouthed friends. It's not The Young Victoria. It's modern Britain, like nobody wants to see it.
Sure, it's a little ham-fisted in places. I won't say it doesn't idealize relationships, and get a little bizarre here and there. But who cares? I picked this book up expecting to be entertained. It exceeded those expectations."
I agree with the most of her arguments. Bridget doesn't look like a typical English woman; if I didn't know that the action takes place in Britain I would say that Bridget is from America. Because even now I have some stereotypes - British people are strict and a bit arrogant but all of them are gentlemen and Bridget sure differs from it. The book is absolutely fair to the imperfect woman but the end of the story is doubtful. She has found a prince and now their lives will be long and happy. The end is divorced from reality. But finally I can't argue that the book is mostly for entertainment. It shouldn't make you to think about the meaning of life. It's light reading for people who want to forget about their own problems by dipping to not so important for them Bridget's problems.