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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Probably my favorite chick lit book.  alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 |  Probably my favorite chick lit book. alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 | Probably my favorite chick lit book. alissamarie | Oct 25, 2009 | Neither of the Bridget Jones books are particularly heavy reading, but they are nice to fill an evening. I enjoyed the light-hearted laughs and that the book was something I could read in a day. (  ) goldnyght | Sep 25, 2009 | I have to say, I didn’t like the sequel much. I am borderline on how exactly I feel, but for the most part, I disliked the book. I just liked, the first book it was funny at times, having a little spark of magic, but the sequel either lost all that small spec of magic the first one had, that allowed me to enjoy it, or it was drowned out by the random fluff that filled the sequel. There can be such thing as having too many eccentric characters. I found that almost every character, save maybe Mark Darcy, are these extremely eccentric, slightly insane characters. It gets to the point, their wacky personalities; take away from what really matters in the story. Not to mention, I found there was a lot of random, out there ….. “crap” that filled the plot. There were parts of Magda’s children while she interacted with Bridget…. (the whole Potty fiasco, got very boring within seconds). There are a lot of other BIG events that occur in the book, that just don’t seem to mesh with the story as a whole, but I can’t really say too much without spoiling the book. To put it vaguely, the events happen to Bridget, just seemed to come so far out of left field, I’m led to believe it was more of a way to make a longer book, then to create a better story. Because it does nothing to improve the stories (both examples) it does nothing to help Bridget grow. This brings me to Bridget. I found this in the first book, but it didn’t bug seem to bug me as much. But in this book, I found her to be a little too helpless and “must have man, to complete life, because she’s nothing without” idea was just bothersome combined with her total lack of self confidence. I just found that she played into two many stereotypes, for the story to be enjoyable in any way. Not to mention, nothing is really resolved at the end of the book. The reader is in the exact same place as they were on page one as they are n the last page. Overall, not a good read. Review also on my blog: http://juliebooks.blogspot.com/2008/1... (  ) bookwormjules | Sep 4, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0140298479, Paperback)Fans of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary will recall that at the end of that sly and funny version of Pride and Prejudice, singleton heroine Bridget landed her Mr. Darcy at last--Mark Darcy, that is. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason picks up four weeks later, and already the honeymoon is over. In addition to discovering that the man of her dreams votes conservative, left-leaning Bridget is also feeling just a mite uncomfortable with the realities of sharing bed and board with another person:V. complicated actually having man in house as cannot freely spend requisite amount of time in bathroom or turn into gas chamber as conscious of other person late for work, desperate for pee etc.; also disturbed by Mark folding up underpants at night, rendering it strangely embarrassing now simply to keep all own clothes in pile on floor.But all of these problems pale to insignificance with the arrival on the scene of Rebecca, a beautiful, man-hunting arch-nemesis with "thighs like a baby giraffe" and absolutely no girlfriend code of ethics when it comes to poaching another woman's man. Before long, Rebecca's manipulations, Bridget's own insecurities, and a string of misunderstandings (starting with a naked Filipino boy in Mark Darcy's bed and ending with a suggestive valentine from Bridget's dry cleaner) result in "128 lbs. (good), alcohol units 0 (excellent), cigarettes 5 (a pleasant, healthy number), no. times driven past Mark Darcy's house 2 (v.g.), no. of times looked up Mark Darcy's name in phone book to prove still exists 18 (v.g.), 1471 calls 12 (better), no. of phone calls from Mark 0 (tragic). Fortunately, Bridget has plenty of other problems to distract her. Her mother has returned from a trip to Kenya with a young Masai in tow--to her father's consternation; her best friends Jude, Shazzer, and Tom are all trapped in dating hell themselves; her apartment is in shambles thanks to a dotty carpenter; an unreliable ex-boyfriend has just reentered her life; and now someone is sending Bridget death threats--could it be Mark Darcy? If Bridget Jones's Diary was a modern riff on Pride and Prejudice, its sequel borrows several themes and devices (not to mention a section heading) from another Austen novel, Persuasion. And as in Austen's fiction, here the journey is the destination. A happy ending for Bridget and her pals is a foregone conclusion; how they get there, however, will have you on the edge of your chair--if you haven't already fallen off of it laughing. --Alix Wilber (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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