If you loved the movie then you'll definitely love the book! Definitely got a few laughs out of it! Thanks again Jen! :) ( )

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Sigh. My first experience with British Chick Lit. It really was love at first sight. A girl around my age (at the time) who snuck cigs, drank, had "wobbly bits" and never really had anything turn out right....the only differences between Bridget and me were a fabulous accent, and it turned out great for her in the end. And someone loved Renee Z enough to cast her in the movie version.

This is totally a rite of passage book for any girl who loved Judy Blume and Madeline L'Engle as a child...and stealth-read Cosmos at the public library because Sr. Gertrude Marie didn't stock that filth in the St. Matt's library. ( )

Although I enjoyed the book, it made me laugh out loud, it kept my interest, this is one of the very very few times. I liked the movie better. I know I know! I can hear all my literary readers groan, spit the coffee at the screen and perhaps yell at me why? Normally I would to. I find very few movie adaptations better then books…. There have probably one or two others…..if even. But the book just didn’t have the same sparkle as the movie. Again, maybe it was because I saw the movie first, I think that is likely why I didn’t enjoy the book as much, I kept waiting for certain funny moments to happen, that didn’t in the book that I saw in the movie.
Not to say the book wasn’t good, because it was. It was a nice entertaining read, full of British Humour, and Bridget is a likeable character, as are many others in the book. There are many who are a little, eccentric, but it makes the book interesting and keeps the reader attracted, because you want to know what the characters will do next.

Again, the only real problem was that I saw the movie first, so I was a little disappointed in parts that weren’t in it. Also, the style, because it’s a journal and because it is British Literature, is hard to follow. Sometimes short forums are used, and 9st….. for the weight…. But that just took a few seconds to do research, but other readers my find it … difficult (if that’s the right word) to follow.

One thing, (this is about the movie) did anyone else find, the made Bridget a little too over weight? I pictured her to be “heavy” but not to what she was in the movies. To me she was somewhere between 125-130 and at 5.7’’ that isn’t that heavy; more of that not quite plus size, but, not under plus size either. She’s basically your average women in a sense. Just a little tidbit I found.

Over all it is an enjoyable, light read, it will make you laugh out loud, and has some good, empowering and eccentric characters that will cause you to turn the pages.

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This book almost made me want to go back and reread Pride & Prejudice....ALMOST ( )

This is one of my favourite books ever.
I read it at least once a year and never get bored with it.
Bridget has me in stitches with her hilarious antics every single time I read it.
She is just so easy to love and I find myself sympathising with her, even though she brings a lot of her problems on herself.
I like the relationships she has with her friends (Shazzer is my favourite!) and how they are always there for her.
And who could forget Mark Darcy? The first time I read the book, he annoyed me, but he's grown on me the more I read it and I think he is the perfect man for Bridget.
All in all, it is an hilarious book that I would (and do) recommend to anyone. ( )

This was my Bible as a twenty-something. I found Bridget so funny, so touching, I read and re-read it almost once a month. I never found the like in the chick-lit tsunami that followed Helen Fielding's success.
I haven't read it for a while, though, I expect that it didn't age that well...

I LOVED this book. Bridget Jones is a very likeable heroine, full of imperfections. She is relateable to anyone struggling to find their own way in the dating world wile being surrounded by Smug Marrieds. This book is laugh-out loud funny and impossible to put down. I have read and re-read this book many times. ( )

Thoroughly entertaining. Even though I am many years older than Bridget, I could identify with many things she said or did. This is a good, quick read. ( )

sounds like my life, sans kids ( )

I haven't seen the movie. But, it was so popular that I thought the book would be good. Wrong. I hated it. I think I'm just too old and too happily married to enjoy a whiny, albeit somewhat funny, vulgar, lonely heroine. If she can even be called that. ( )

Delightful ( )

Bridget is a "Singleton" living in London and employed in the publishing industry. It's her diary, complete with daily entries of calories consumed, cigarettes smoked, "alcohol units" imbibed and other unsuitable obsessions, of a year in the life of a bright London 30-something who deplores male "fuckwittage" while pining for a steady boyfriend that ultimately gives life to this novel.

"Fuckwittage" seems to sum up Bridget's roller coaster life, encapsulated in the emotional turmoil intentionally wreaked by men who fall anywhere along the spectrum of womanizers to commitment-phobics. Fuckwittage is no stranger to Bridget, Shazzer (a strident feminist), Jude (a highly successful business woman who throughout the novel is on-again-off-again with Vile Richard), and the gay Tom (who must deal with the fuckwittage present in his relationship with Pretentious Jerome).

There are a lot of laugh out loud moments, from Bridget's list of "I Will Not" as part of her New Year's Resolution, to her determination of cultivating "inner poise", endorsing the idea that resultions should sensibly start on January 2, comparing a woman's date-preparation and being a woman in general to be akin to being a farmer ("there is so much harvesting and crop spraying to be done" e.g. legs to be waxed, skin exfoliated and moisturized), to rallying on Singletons.
"I'm not married because I'm a Singleton, you smug, prematurely aging, narrow-minded morons. We'd be as happy as larks if people like you didn't conspire to make us feel stupid just because you're jealous."

What irks me about this book is the flawed character of her mother. Bridget's parents consists of an overbearing, overconfident mother who seems always to be finding new adventures and projects and who thinks she could just gloss over life's setbacks; and a much more down-to-earth father (though he is sometimes driven into uncharacteristically unstable states of mind by his wife). Nobody can blame him, especially when his wife turned into a criminal just because she can't exert self-control on her extramarital affairs. Overall, I had high hopes for this book, which made chick lit so popular but it proved unable to meet my expectations.

Book Details:

Title Bridget Jones's Diary
Author Helen Fielding
Reviewed By Purplycookie ( )

Hysterical! A quick and fun read that many girls and women can relate to on some level. ( )

Somehow I missed that this was actually a book, written as a diary; I formerly was only aware of it as a movie. I saw the movie years ago, probably not long after it was released. I watched the movie again fall of 2008, even saw the sequel.

First time through the film I know I understood very little of what was said. Last year when I watched it I understood almost all of it, having lived here for a year.

I only decided to read the book because I saw it on a list of 'Have you read' books recently. Really, I am still not sure how it became a part of the list. There was nothing especially special about the book. It appears to follow along much as the movie did. Of course I am going to have to rewatch the movie at some point, I guess, to determine if I am recalling that correctly. While it wasn't a life-changing book for me to read I will probalby also read the sequel so that I can say that I read both books and saw both films. ( )

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This is one of my favorite Chic-Lit books. It was such a fun, quick read and I really liked the character of Bridget a lot. She just cracked me up. ( )

Yes, it is chick lit. And yes, it's silly but it is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Many aspects of relationships between men and women are explored whether male/female, brother/sister, husband/wife, father/daughter. The situations Bridget manages to talk and get herself into are impressive. Her obsessiveness, her compulsions, drinking and smoking, her friends -- all come together to make her diary a daily reminder of how crazy life can be. It's great fun. ( )

I've read this book 4 or 5 times. Seen the movies about the same. I love this book dearly! It is so funny and captivating that once you start reading it - you don't want to put it down! I suggest this as a great read to all fellow singletons out there. ( )

Think I gave an extra star because of the movie... ( )

I enjoyed this book. I started noticing things in my life that reflect Bridget Jones's observations. Of course, Bridget Jones drove me crazy with her pathological disorganization and lateness, but the Pride and Prejudice plotlines were endearing. ( )

Laugh out loud funny. If I'm depressed, this book always helps. ( )

On vacation with friends--should be sightseeing, shopping, etc. What am I doing? Cracking myself up with this book! I couldn't put it down! Bonus--I lent it to my girlfriends when we got home. ( )

This book made me smile more than once. I enjoyed it! ( )

I saw the movie first. I enjoyed both, but particularly the Mr Darcy business. Hilarious! ( )