This book was very enjoyable..Would really read it again ( )

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You know, I’d watched this movie in cinemas when it had come out; I was in middle school or very early high school, maybe. I remember enjoying it, but I don’t remember much of it, really. Then I decided to buy the book. I read it recently.
It was…not enjoyable.
The Devil Wears Prada is about Andrea, a newly-graduated college student who is looking for a job. She wants to be a journalist for a big newspaper like The New York Times one day, but she knows that she has a lot of work to do before she can become that good. So she starts to shop around for opportunities, and surely enough a fashion magazine called Runway gives her a chance. A job that a million girls would die for. But not Andrea, apparently. She hates fashion, and she is definitely a fish out of water at this new job. But she also knows that one year of working at Runway will get her a job anywhere she wants, and all she has to do is stick it out.
The biggest problem, though, isn’t her aversion to fashion or the fact that her colleagues don’t seem to like her very much. Oh no, her biggest problem is her boss, who is a Class A Bitch.
I read recently somewhere that apparently Laure Weisberger based this on her own personal experience of when she worked as a personal assistant for Anna Wintour, who is known for being just as bad a boss as Miranda Priestly is portrayed as. Knowing this, I found it kinda funny that Anna Wintour makes a brief cameo in the novel during a fashion week in Paris.
Anyway.
It wasn’t the story that bothered me, because the story would be pretty good. It was Andrea. I hated her.
Why is Andrea so unlikeable the entire novel? I can’t like her at all. She’s just so mean spirited and constantly complaining and oh my god, she is so racist. Reading this novel now, in 2019, is a terrible experience because the way she talks about immigrants living in New York is really demeaning. She’s constantly complaining about the people around her that don’t speak English properly because they’re not American; she has a moment where she says that she can’t tell her two Indian roommates apart and that their apartment always smells like curry. She even writes the speech of immigrants in a way that was pretty obvious that she was making fun of their speech patterns. For God’s sake, there’s even a scene where she makes fun of her boss’s British accent and how she can’t understand it.
Seriously. It just reeks of uneducated American, even though she brags in the beginning of the book that she’s travelled so much and been all over the world and she’s really cultured. But, really, she’s just a stuck up brat.
The only redeeming part of this novel was the very last page because that was at least satisfying to read. Everything else was just unbearable because Andrea is just so unlikeable.
Final rating? 2/5. Honestly, some people may like this book but I just can’t get behind it at all. ( )

maaaaaybe 2,5 stars?
can't decide really
mostly it left me uninterested ( )

Decent book, but seems long sometimes (could be from listening to it on the iPod). ( )