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Bridget Jones's Diary

By Helen Fielding

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| Paperback | 9780140280098

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Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half eaContinue

Bridget Jones's Diary is the devastatingly self-aware, laugh-out-loud account of a year in the life of a thirty-something Singleton on a permanent doomed quest for self-improvement. Caught between the joys of Singleton fun, and the fear of dying alone and being found three weeks later half eaten by an Alsatian; tortured by Smug Married friends asking, "How's your love life" with lascivious, yet patronizing leers, Bridget resolves to reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1.5 inches, visit the gym three times a week not just to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult and learn to program the VCR. With a blend of flighty charm, existential gloom, and endearing self-deprecation, the diary has touched a raw nerve with millions of readers the world round. Read it, laugh and crash your head onto the table before you cry, "Bridget Jones is me!"

"Screamingly funny." --USA Today

"Bridget Jones is channeling something so universal and (horrifyingly) familiar that readers will giggle and sigh with collective delight." --Elle

"Hilarious but poignant." --The Washington Post

"This juicy diary tells the truth with a verve as appealing to men on Mars as it is to Venusian women. A." --Entertainment Weekly

"An unforgettably droll character." --Newsweek

"Bridget's voice is dead-on . . . will cause readers to drop the book, grope frantically for the phone and read it out loud to their best girlfriends." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Fielding. . .has rummaged all too knowingly through the bedrooms, closets, hearts and minds of women everywhere." --Glamour

"Good-bye Rules Girls, hello Singletons...Endearingly engaging." --The New York Times Book Review

Critics

  • Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

    As you may have noticed, the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Picador, £12.99), was published last week. Or perhaps you have been on safari in the Congo, where sales of the first book were, apparently, limited. Brid ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Bridget Jones's Diary By Helen Fielding

    Back when at least a few entertainers owned both intelligence and a sense of the fitness of things, Fred Allen, the great wit and radio comedian -- in his case, not mutually contradictory terms -- wrote his autobiography and titled it Treadmill to Ob ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

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  • 2 people find this helpful

    oh come on, let's not be snobs:

    this first novel was HILARIOUS, spot-on, and had good surprise value (we still didn't know we'd be inundated by worthless chick-lit for years to come). V.v. excellent, as she'd write.

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    Paola said on Feb 7, 2008 | 1 feedback

  • Read this. Then picked it up again every couple of years or so, when the situation demanded it. You just cannot call yourself a woman if you don't read this.

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    Annalisa said on Oct 22, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • Bridget isn't an interesting character. She looks forward to having a boyfriend but it seems that she hasn't done anything to help herself. She intended to loss weight, quit smoking and drink less but eventually gives up. I find her boring and unattractive.

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    Purple Rain said on Feb 9, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • I love reading Bridget Jones!

    I have seen the movie a million times and re-read the book several times. Both are very good. The movie has a better story line (the book ending is a direct copy of Pride and Prejudice) but the book has a lot more funny details.

    Hurrah to Bridget and Singlet ... (continue)

    I love reading Bridget Jones!

    I have seen the movie a million times and re-read the book several times. Both are very good. The movie has a better story line (the book ending is a direct copy of Pride and Prejudice) but the book has a lot more funny details.

    Hurrah to Bridget and Singleton!

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    material girl said on Dec 4, 2008 | Add your feedback

  • One of the books I read excerpts of every now and then. Absolutely enjoy it every time I read it.

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    fran_ces said on Nov 6, 2008 | Add your feedback

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