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Bridget Jones's Diary

By Fielding, Helen Fielding

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| Hardcover | 9780670880720

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"130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but neverthContinue

"130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorrow); number of correct lottery numbers 2 (better, but nevertheless useless)" This laugh-out-loud chronicle charts a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single girl on a permanent, doomed quest for self-improvement--in which she resolves to: visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, form a functional relationship with a responsible adult, and not fall for any of the following: misogynists, megalomaniacs, adulterers, workaholics, chauvinists or perverts. And learn to program the VCR. Caught between her Singleton friends, who are all convinced they will end up dying alone and found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian, and the Smug Marrieds, whose dinner parties offer ever-new opportunities for humiliation, Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel (or at least afloat). Through it all, she will have her readers helpless with laughter and shouting, "BRIDGET JONES IS ME!"

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  • 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 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

  • Best Read, As good as film

    Quite different to the films, but equally as entertaining! Absolutely LOVED the book, read in 5 days, could not put it down! Definitely worth reading if you love the films. Fielding will have you hooked! Has to be favourite book! One I will pick up again and again!!

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    Daisy Lilley said on Apr 11, 2012 about the Paperback edition | Add your 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 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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