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The Devil Wears Prada

by Lauren Weisberger

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Many people can relate to taking a job that you don't have particular interest in because it will get you ahead at a certain company or industry. People can also relate to working long hours and dealing with demanding bosses. Hopefully none of us will have to deal with them to quite the extent of Andrea in The Devil Wears Prada

It was a fun and entertaining read, but falls short of 4 or 5 stars for the following reasons.

We are told that Andrea is a bright girl - she graduated from a prestigious college and has hopes to work for the New Yorker. She is occasionally referred to as having a lot of intelligence. However, in her actions and speech throughout the book, she does not come off as having above average intelligence. She can also be sarcastic and off putting to the point of being unlikeable, which didn't make sense for Christian, the writer, to want to flirt with her.

I'm not sure how we were supposed to feel about Alex, Andrea's boyfriend. He seemed very one dimensional, and I didn't really care one way or another about the stress the job was putting on their relationship. I also didn't care too much about Lily and couldn't even tell why Andrea and Lily were even friends. This was the case with many of the characters - they were flat and were only included as plot devices. I would understand this for the various other supporting characters, but a handful were very prominent in the story, and it would have been nice if I felt some emotion towards them. As it was, I just didn't care.

So, entertaining chick lit, without much substance. Read for the over the top anecdotes about working for a crazy and unreasonable boss and enjoy it for that. Be thankful your job isn't that bad! ( )
  stacyinthecity | Nov 22, 2009 |
2006 ( )
  katiemertz | Nov 20, 2009 |
Good read. ( )
  EricPMagnuson | Nov 12, 2009 |
Meh. The movie is better. The main character is a little whiny. On no, I'm underappreciated, my job is hard bleh bleh bleh...whatevs. At least the movie has Stanley Tucci and nice clothes to look at. ( )
1 vote maryjanemanolos | Nov 7, 2009 |
After thoroughly enjoying the movie, I decided to pick this book up over the summer. I barely managed to finish it, and only because I don't like abandoning books halfway through. Andrea was terrible! When I read, I like to be able to sympathize with the main character - if your main character is a serial killer, let us find SOME way to connect with him. I hated Andrea for the entire book. Leaving her family, her (amazing!) boyfriend, and her best friend in the dust for a terrible boss who makes outrageous demands, just so that she has a shot at a better job in the future is not okay!

The book was insanely repetitive. Chapter after chapter we see:
1) Boss makes crazy demand
2) Andrea ditches her family/friends to do it
3) Andrea fails, boss threatens to fire her
4) Repeat.

Where is the pleasure in that? ( )
1 vote distractedmusician | Oct 28, 2009 |
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1854
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My Mother, Cheryl, the mom "a million girls would die for" ; My father, Steve, who is handsome, witty, brilliant, and talented, and who insisted on writing his own dedication; my phenomenal sister, Dana, their favorite (until i wrote a book).
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The light hadn't even officially turned green at the intersection of 17th and Broadway before before an army of overconfident yellow cabs roared past the tiny deathtrap i was attempting to navigate around the city streets.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0307275558, Mass Market Paperback)

It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!"

This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alex Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:20 -0400)

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