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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  nevusmom | Dec 8, 2009 |  film was bad, but still interesting  mihoatoo | Dec 6, 2009 | 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 |  no reviews | add a review
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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
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Perhaps other people can relate to it. I just couldn't. (