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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN num: 9780141000190
ISBN number: 0141000198
Label: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: April 01, 2001
Publishing house: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Sale Popularity Level: 28873
Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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'130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)' This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, adulterers, workaholics, chauvinists or perverts. And learn to program the VCR. Caught between her Singleton friends, who are all convinced they will end up dying alone and found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian, and the Smug Marrieds, whose dinner parties offer ever-new opportunities for humiliation, Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel (or at least afloat). Through it all, she will have her readers helpless with laughter and shouting, 'BRIDGET JONES IS ME!'
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In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and 'Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way).' In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short grey skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.
At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, 'get up straight away when wake up in mornings.' Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of 'Smug Marrieds' professing concern for her and her fellow 'Singletons'--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, 'We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?''
This is only the very first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's 'emotional fuckwittage.' Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like 'a tragic freak.' Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried
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If you don't read this book and laugh out loud, you may need anti-depressants. Fielding's writing of Bridget is magical. I am not a singleton, but a smug married for the past 20 years (a bit less when I very first read this novel) and I loved it.
Even though Bridget's life and my own were polar opposites, I found myself cheering for her and loving her. This is good writing. It is funny from start to finish.
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I had listened to this book through the library and then borrowed it again later, but with a different reader. It was not NEARLY as entertaining by the other reader, so you ONLY want the one read by Traci Bennett!
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In the July/August 2003 Book Magazine, there was an article name "She's Come Undone." After reviewing the article and talking to many women, I decided to see what made her done in the very first place. I finally broke down and bought a copy of Bridget Jones's Diary. The article only served as the straw that broke the camel's back. Many evenings I have spent in the company of female friends or dates and found a few things out about them, which were just speculations until finally reading Jones's Diary, and would like to relate them.
Personally speaking, if I am out with anyone, I need to have some order of conversation and with all such luck the person and I will have something in common. Many women who I have spoke to about Bridget Jones's Diary all fall into a few categories. These women are women who do not regularly read, outside of required reading ages ago from school, and they all believe Bridget Jones's Diary to be some great literary masterpiece. I will admit that I was intimidated by the notion of reading, the now defined "Chick Lit," because I am a male. After all the hype I buckled down and read the work.
Bridget Jones's Diary is written in a very unique tone and follows suit to prove Jones a scatterbrain. By all means, Helen Fielding is a very smart woman. She created a product, produced interest, even in the most unsuspected non-readers, and continued the wave of "Chick Lit," making a buck at the same time. However, the lack of words where needed made some of the book incomprehensible, knowing no one who writes in their own journal that way, and the many abbreviations served as a nuisance. The problems that Bridget has in her life are problems everyone has to deal with on one level or another, nothing to really obsess about. So this leads me to believe a few things. That the women who have spoken to me, raving about the book, do in fact think totally on those lines, that scares me and is probably a reason why I don't talk to them anymore. Or, they truly believe Jones's Diary to be a great masterpiece and I can always write that off as being a "non-reader." The final analysis tells me that I need to stop talking to some of these women because they are either crazy or stupid, not the "non-readers" though, ignorance is bliss.
The book was in an interesting voice and had a great originality to it. One could go as far to say that it was a decent read but just not my style. For those who simply read this book on a referral and do not regularly read, I would hope they might continue their interest in literature and reading, possibly finding something with great value.
With all that said I would leave a lasting note. While I was reading this book, there were times I had it while working (I worked on a ferry service as a bar tender). With my hard cover edition of the Diary in hand, having a cloth book cover concealing my choice in reading, I was speaking to a female customer. The trip was from New York to New Jersey and she was a very well spoken, well-dressed, beautiful professional, I was in awe. After serving her the drink she ordered we were talking for a bit. "Well, I have to get going. I want to read more of my book." A light immediately went off in my head, A book lover! I thought that I must continue to talk to her. "Oh you don't say, I'm reading a book too. Bridget Jones's Diary." I replied. Continuing the conversation "Oh really, you must be reading that because someone referred it to you." She said. "No, I am reading it because so many women talk about it. To tell you the truth, I figure if I'm going to play the game with them, I should go in with a loaded weapon. Do you think that I would keep this cover on the book if it were Steven King? What are you reading?" I clarified and showed her the real contents of the book. "Oh, I'm reading consumer reports." A consumer report, that was the great book I thought she was reading. "Oh really, is that for work?" I inquired, trying to hold onto any visions of drinking coffee with this woman all hours of the evening talking about literature and sociology. "No, I'm buying a car. I figure if I'm going to go and play the game, I'm going to do it with a loaded weapon." Then my professional, not so literary, goddess took off to an upper deck to settle down with her rum and coke and consumer reports. I finished Bridget Jones's Diary, not at all satisfied, she is probably very happy with the car she bought and likes her job working for a publisher.
~John J. Petrolino III: September 17, 2008
Author of Galleria: A collection of poetry and the short story "Three Lonesome Travelers"
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Having read this 'must-read' when it very first was published, I was an immediate Bridget Jones fan. Now, years later, I've re-read it, and have to wonder why in modern society, it is still considered imperative for a woman to find a man? Helen Fielding herself has admitted that Bridget Jones Diary is based on Pride and Prejudice. In fact, she wrote it whilst watching BBC's version of the Jane Austen classic. Nothing wrong with that. Except - it was more important for Elizabeth Bennet to find a husband (or else risk not surviving, literally) than it is for Bridget Jones, a modern girl in a developed world.
Having gotten that bit of feminism off my back, I must say that the book is good. It has become the epitome of the chik lit, with many laugh-out-loud moments.
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The book was a little more used than I anticipated, but I still enjoyed reading it again.
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