In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.

At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"

This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry FriedIn the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.

At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"

This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.

At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"

This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry FriedIn the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx.) (hideous in every way)." In 365 days, she gains 74 pounds. On the other hand, she loses 72! There is also the unspoken New Year's resolution--the quest for the right man. Alas, here Bridget goes severely off course when she has an affair with her charming cad of a boss. But who would be without their e-mail flirtation focused on a short black skirt? The boss even contends that it is so short as to be nonexistent.

At the beginning of Helen Fielding's exceptionally funny second novel, the thirtyish publishing puffette is suffering from postholiday stress syndrome but determined to find Inner Peace and poise. Bridget will, for instance, "get up straight away when wake up in mornings." Now if only she can survive the party her mother has tricked her into--a suburban fest full of "Smug Marrieds" professing concern for her and her fellow "Singletons"--she'll have made a good start. As far as she's concerned, "We wouldn't rush up to them and roar, 'How's your marriage going? Still having sex?'"

This is only the first of many disgraces Bridget will suffer in her year of performance anxiety (at work and at play, though less often in bed) and living through other people's "emotional fuckwittage." Her twin-set-wearing suburban mother, for instance, suddenly becomes a chat-show hostess and unrepentant adulteress, while our heroine herself spends half the time overdosing on Chardonnay and feeling like "a tragic freak." Bridget Jones's Diary began as a column in the London Independent and struck a chord with readers of all sexes and sizes. In strokes simultaneously broad and subtle, Helen Fielding reveals the lighter side of despair, self-doubt, and obsession, and also satirizes everything from self-help books (they don't sound half as sensible to Bridget when she's sober) to feng shui, Cosmopolitan-style. She is the Nancy Mitford of the 1990s, and it's impossible not to root for her endearing heroine. On the other hand, one can only hope that Bridget will continue to screw up and tell us all about it for years and books to come. --Kerry Fried

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

7:15 am Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male thereby proving am not love pariah as previously feared.

So begins The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones' hilarious foray into the not-so-sexy realities of relationships, the laughable legions of self-help theories and a television career that would have her model "tiny shorts next to a blow-up of Fergie in gym wear". Picking up where Bridget Jones' Diary left off, everyone's favourite singleton has finally landed her love, Mark Darcy. However, she's finding--among other things--that her dreamboat is less than ideal. Aside from never doing the washing up or foraging through the isles at Tesco, Mark, it seems, has taken an interest in the viperous "jellyfish" Rebecca, who has "thighs like a baby giraffe" and a penchant for boyfriend snatching.

If that isn't enough, Richard "I'm thinking bunny girl! I'm thinking Gladiator! I'm thinking canvassing MP!" Finch, Bridget's smarmy, cocaine-encrusted boss and Executive Producer of Sit Up, wants her to be the show's clown, in effect making her the arse of television. What's more, a builder who has an obsession for large, slimy fish seems to have forgotten about the hole he knocked out in her flat, putting her entire life on display for the neighbours. Not to mention a mother who wants her to go to see Ms. Saigon with a Kikuya tribesman hijacked from Kenya.

Never fear, Bridge's singleton posse--Shazzer, Jude and Tom--are always a phone call away and armed with bottles of Chardonnay, packs of Silk Cut, pizza and a cornucopia of self-help literature. Whether they're decoding acronyms in singles ads (GSOH and WLTM? "Giant sore on head. Willy, limp, thin mollusc."), developing the ground-breaking "Pashima theory" or dolling out unsolicited advice, the FOBs (friends of Bridget) make up most of the comedy.

Although The Edge of Reason is filled with signature B.J. manoeuvres, such as drunken Christmas card writing and wearing an unruly rubber girdle, it's a departure from the original. Throughout most of its 422 pages the plot clips at a steady rate, then, much like Bridget's train of thought, the ending skitters, careens and breaks off into two incoherent tracks--one more absurd than the other. The outcome is a metamorphosed Bridget, one more reminiscent of a British Alley McBeal than the personification of England's everywoman. --Rebekah Warren

7:15 am Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male thereby proving am not love pariah as previously feared.

So begins The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones' hilarious foray into the not-so-sexy realities of relationships, the laughable legions of self-help theories and a television career that would have her model "tiny shorts next to a blow-up of Fergie in gym wear". Picking up where Bridget Jones' Diary left off, everyone's favourite singleton has finally landed her love, Mark Darcy. However, she's finding--among other things--that her dreamboat is less than ideal. Aside from never doing the washing up or foraging through the isles at Tesco, Mark, it seems, has taken an interest in the viperous "jellyfish" Rebecca, who has "thighs like a baby giraffe" and a penchant for boyfriend snatching.

If that isn't enough, Richard "I'm thinking bunny girl! I'm thinking Gladiator! I'm thinking canvassing MP!" Finch, Bridget's smarmy, cocaine-encrusted boss and Executive Producer of Sit Up, wants her to be the show's clown, in effect making her the arse of television. What's more, a builder who has an obsession for large, slimy fish seems to have forgotten about the hole he knocked out in her flat, putting her entire life on display for the neighbours. Not to mention a mother who wants her to go to see Ms. Saigon with a Kikuya tribesman hijacked from Kenya.

Never fear, Bridge's singleton posse--Shazzer, Jude and Tom--are always a phone call away and armed with bottles of Chardonnay, packs of Silk Cut, pizza and a cornucopia of self-help literature. Whether they're decoding acronyms in singles ads (GSOH and WLTM? "Giant sore on head. Willy, limp, thin mollusc."), developing the ground-breaking "Pashima theory" or dolling out unsolicited advice, the FOBs (friends of Bridget) make up most of the comedy.

Although The Edge of Reason is filled with signature B.J. manoeuvres, such as drunken Christmas card writing and wearing an unruly rubber girdle, it's a departure from the original. Throughout most of its 422 pages the plot clips at a steady rate, then, much like Bridget's train of thought, the ending skitters, careens and breaks off into two incoherent tracks--one more absurd than the other. The outcome is a metamorphosed Bridget, one more reminiscent of a British Alley McBeal than the personification of England's everywoman. --Rebekah Warren

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Bridgette's Back! Gaaaah!, 12 Oct 2008
Take a couple of seconds to take this a tiny bit seriously, and it could tell you a lot about modern society. With the constant obsessing about relationships, inability to trust or communicate, dump before you're dumped mentality ... get my drift?

Anyway, having put myself through the trauma of the first book, I thought I'd better have a go at the sequel just to see how far things could sink. Surprisingly enough, although you could never say the book was deep, I did like it. In particular the way relationships were handled and the importance of friendships. The characters were developed further, making them slightly more interesting, but the plot, even wackier than the previous book, was too far fetched although written well enough for you to engage in the action. It didn't quite live up to all the hype for me, but I did laugh, once or twice.


Dire, moronic drivel, 14 Apr 2006
Here we go again - yet another moronic summing up of the modern British woman, as if we are all neurotic, ditzy, self-obsessed relationship fiends.

This book stereotypes to the point of the ridiculous, and is quite damaging to woman who actually have a brain. It is about, (as if you didn't know) Bridget, a self-obsessed airhead moron who, laughably, we are supposed to believe is a journalist. If this is based on a real person, that makes me even angrier. I did not waste my time studying journalism for three years to share breathing space with morons like this; bimbos whose main preoccupations in life are whether to use large pants or the cheap, sleazy, g-string. COMPLEX STUFF! Any man reading this book could be forgiven for thinking that all women are brainless, good-for-nothing morons, but thankfully I, and others like me aren't.

The characters portrayed here are very much 'of the masses', and that's what makes the book one giant, pathetic flaw. Bridget feels guilty and empty because she is in her thirties and childless - big deal! Get a life.

The woman who wrote this unutterable pile of rot should be ashamed - she has just set women's liberation back by about fifty years.

Wow!! What a great read!!, 18 Nov 2005
I found this on my wife's dressing table and I have not been able to put it down since! I thought it was going to general chick flick stuff! But no! It has given me a genuine insight into the dilemas faced by the modern woman about town! Will recommend to my friend Don.

Bridget Jones, 14 Jun 2005
If youve seen the movie, then you definalty have to read the book. The book goes more into detail about the plot that the movie. Once you begin to read it, you cannot put the book down. Bridget has her peculiar ways that are extremly funny, which you will find. This book is excently written. At some moments it makes you feel as if you are actually Bridget.

A Great buy...and must read.

Hilarious, 13 Apr 2005
This is a book which I have put off reading so many times that it was embarrassing, but Helen Fielding has managed to produce a book which many of the female population could identify with.

This hilarious, laugh aloud book deals with many of the problems that a girl could come across, men, weight and builders to name but a few.

The only problem with the book is the need to exercise some discretion on where you read it, otherwise you could end up in an embarassing situation in true Bridget style.

7:15 am Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male thereby proving am not love pariah as previously feared.

So begins The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones' hilarious foray into the not-so-sexy realities of relationships, the laughable legions of self-help theories and a television career that would have her model "tiny shorts next to a blow-up of Fergie in gym wear". Picking up where Bridget Jones' Diary left off, everyone's favourite singleton has finally landed her love, Mark Darcy. However, she's finding--among other things--that her dreamboat is less than ideal. Aside from never doing the washing up or foraging through the isles at Tesco, Mark, it seems, has taken an interest in the viperous "jellyfish" Rebecca, who has "thighs like a baby giraffe" and a penchant for boyfriend snatching.

If that isn't enough, Richard "I'm thinking bunny girl! I'm thinking Gladiator! I'm thinking canvassing MP!" Finch, Bridget's smarmy, cocaine-encrusted boss and Executive Producer of Sit Up, wants her to be the show's clown, in effect making her the arse of television. What's more, a builder who has an obsession for large, slimy fish seems to have forgotten about the hole he knocked out in her flat, putting her entire life on display for the neighbours. Not to mention a mother who wants her to go to see Ms. Saigon with a Kikuya tribesman hijacked from Kenya.

Never fear, Bridge's singleton posse--Shazzer, Jude and Tom--are always a phone call away and armed with bottles of Chardonnay, packs of Silk Cut, pizza and a cornucopia of self-help literature. Whether they're decoding acronyms in singles ads (GSOH and WLTM? "Giant sore on head. Willy, limp, thin mollusc."), developing the ground-breaking "Pashima theory" or dolling out unsolicited advice, the FOBs (friends of Bridget) make up most of the comedy.

Although The Edge of Reason is filled with signature B.J. manoeuvres, such as drunken Christmas card writing and wearing an unruly rubber girdle, it's a departure from the original. Throughout most of its 422 pages the plot clips at a steady rate, then, much like Bridget's train of thought, the ending skitters, careens and breaks off into two incoherent tracks--one more absurd than the other. The outcome is a metamorphosed Bridget, one more reminiscent of a British Alley McBeal than the personification of England's everywoman. --Rebekah Warren

7:15 am Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male thereby proving am not love pariah as previously feared.

So begins The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones' hilarious foray into the not-so-sexy realities of relationships, the laughable legions of self-help theories and a television career that would have her model "tiny shorts next to a blow-up of Fergie in gym wear". Picking up where Bridget Jones' Diary left off, everyone's favourite singleton has finally landed her love, Mark Darcy. However, she's finding--among other things--that her dreamboat is less than ideal. Aside from never doing the washing up or foraging through the isles at Tesco, Mark, it seems, has taken an interest in the viperous "jellyfish" Rebecca, who has "thighs like a baby giraffe" and a penchant for boyfriend snatching.

If that isn't enough, Richard "I'm thinking bunny girl! I'm thinking Gladiator! I'm thinking canvassing MP!" Finch, Bridget's smarmy, cocaine-encrusted boss and Executive Producer of Sit Up, wants her to be the show's clown, in effect making her the arse of television. What's more, a builder who has an obsession for large, slimy fish seems to have forgotten about the hole he knocked out in her flat, putting her entire life on display for the neighbours. Not to mention a mother who wants her to go to see Ms. Saigon with a Kikuya tribesman hijacked from Kenya.

Never fear, Bridge's singleton posse--Shazzer, Jude and Tom--are always a phone call away and armed with bottles of Chardonnay, packs of Silk Cut, pizza and a cornucopia of self-help literature. Whether they're decoding acronyms in singles ads (GSOH and WLTM? "Giant sore on head. Willy, limp, thin mollusc."), developing the ground-breaking "Pashima theory" or dolling out unsolicited advice, the FOBs (friends of Bridget) make up most of the comedy.

Although The Edge of Reason is filled with signature B.J. manoeuvres, such as drunken Christmas card writing and wearing an unruly rubber girdle, it's a departure from the original. Throughout most of its 422 pages the plot clips at a steady rate, then, much like Bridget's train of thought, the ending skitters, careens and breaks off into two incoherent tracks--one more absurd than the other. The outcome is a metamorphosed Bridget, one more reminiscent of a British Alley McBeal than the personification of England's everywoman. --Rebekah Warren

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Bridgette's Back! Gaaaah!, 12 Oct 2008
Take a couple of seconds to take this a tiny bit seriously, and it could tell you a lot about modern society. With the constant obsessing about relationships, inability to trust or communicate, dump before you're dumped mentality ... get my drift?

Anyway, having put myself through the trauma of the first book, I thought I'd better have a go at the sequel just to see how far things could sink. Surprisingly enough, although you could never say the book was deep, I did like it. In particular the way relationships were handled and the importance of friendships. The characters were developed further, making them slightly more interesting, but the plot, even wackier than the previous book, was too far fetched although written well enough for you to engage in the action. It didn't quite live up to all the hype for me, but I did laugh, once or twice.


Dire, moronic drivel, 14 Apr 2006
Here we go again - yet another moronic summing up of the modern British woman, as if we are all neurotic, ditzy, self-obsessed relationship fiends.

This book stereotypes to the point of the ridiculous, and is quite damaging to woman who actually have a brain. It is about, (as if you didn't know) Bridget, a self-obsessed airhead moron who, laughably, we are supposed to believe is a journalist. If this is based on a real person, that makes me even angrier. I did not waste my time studying journalism for three years to share breathing space with morons like this; bimbos whose main preoccupations in life are whether to use large pants or the cheap, sleazy, g-string. COMPLEX STUFF! Any man reading this book could be forgiven for thinking that all women are brainless, good-for-nothing morons, but thankfully I, and others like me aren't.

The characters portrayed here are very much 'of the masses', and that's what makes the book one giant, pathetic flaw. Bridget feels guilty and empty because she is in her thirties and childless - big deal! Get a life.

The woman who wrote this unutterable pile of rot should be ashamed - she has just set women's liberation back by about fifty years.

Wow!! What a great read!!, 18 Nov 2005
I found this on my wife's dressing table and I have not been able to put it down since! I thought it was going to general chick flick stuff! But no! It has given me a genuine insight into the dilemas faced by the modern woman about town! Will recommend to my friend Don.

Bridget Jones, 14 Jun 2005
If youve seen the movie, then you definalty have to read the book. The book goes more into detail about the plot that the movie. Once you begin to read it, you cannot put the book down. Bridget has her peculiar ways that are extremly funny, which you will find. This book is excently written. At some moments it makes you feel as if you are actually Bridget.

A Great buy...and must read.

Hilarious, 13 Apr 2005
This is a book which I have put off reading so many times that it was embarrassing, but Helen Fielding has managed to produce a book which many of the female population could identify with.

This hilarious, laugh aloud book deals with many of the problems that a girl could come across, men, weight and builders to name but a few.

The only problem with the book is the need to exercise some discretion on where you read it, otherwise you could end up in an embarassing situation in true Bridget style.

Bridgette's Back! Gaaaah!, 12 Oct 2008
Take a couple of seconds to take this a tiny bit seriously, and it could tell you a lot about modern society. With the constant obsessing about relationships, inability to trust or communicate, dump before you're dumped mentality ... get my drift?

Anyway, having put myself through the trauma of the first book, I thought I'd better have a go at the sequel just to see how far things could sink. Surprisingly enough, although you could never say the book was deep, I did like it. In particular the way relationships were handled and the importance of friendships. The characters were developed further, making them slightly more interesting, but the plot, even wackier than the previous book, was too far fetched although written well enough for you to engage in the action. It didn't quite live up to all the hype for me, but I did laugh, once or twice.


Dire, moronic drivel, 14 Apr 2006
Here we go again - yet another moronic summing up of the modern British woman, as if we are all neurotic, ditzy, self-obsessed relationship fiends.

This book stereotypes to the point of the ridiculous, and is quite damaging to woman who actually have a brain. It is about, (as if you didn't know) Bridget, a self-obsessed airhead moron who, laughably, we are supposed to believe is a journalist. If this is based on a real person, that makes me even angrier. I did not waste my time studying journalism for three years to share breathing space with morons like this; bimbos whose main preoccupations in life are whether to use large pants or the cheap, sleazy, g-string. COMPLEX STUFF! Any man reading this book could be forgiven for thinking that all women are brainless, good-for-nothing morons, but thankfully I, and others like me aren't.

The characters portrayed here are very much 'of the masses', and that's what makes the book one giant, pathetic flaw. Bridget feels guilty and empty because she is in her thirties and childless - big deal! Get a life.

The woman who wrote this unutterable pile of rot should be ashamed - she has just set women's liberation back by about fifty years.

Wow!! What a great read!!, 18 Nov 2005
I found this on my wife's dressing table and I have not been able to put it down since! I thought it was going to general chick flick stuff! But no! It has given me a genuine insight into the dilemas faced by the modern woman about town! Will recommend to my friend Don.

Bridget Jones, 14 Jun 2005
If youve seen the movie, then you definalty have to read the book. The book goes more into detail about the plot that the movie. Once you begin to read it, you cannot put the book down. Bridget has her peculiar ways that are extremly funny, which you will find. This book is excently written. At some moments it makes you feel as if you are actually Bridget.

A Great buy...and must read.

Hilarious, 13 Apr 2005
This is a book which I have put off reading so many times that it was embarrassing, but Helen Fielding has managed to produce a book which many of the female population could identify with.

This hilarious, laugh aloud book deals with many of the problems that a girl could come across, men, weight and builders to name but a few.

The only problem with the book is the need to exercise some discretion on where you read it, otherwise you could end up in an embarassing situation in true Bridget style.

Rosie Richardson, short-skirted, under-appreciated Publicity Gel, dumps her egotistical, bullying, TV presenter boyfriend and heads to Africa to save the natives. But after four years in the plains, a plague of locusts and civil war take their toll, the frustrated and disillusioned Rosie is pushed back to her media-dahling roots in London.

Armed with a bucket full of will power, she fends off the determined amorous advances of her ex whilst trying to enlist his celebrity-pulling power to further her personal Cause Celeb: a Live Aid inspired celebrity television appeal to raise cash for food in the country she left behind.

Cause Celeb isn't exactly ground breaking but it does manage to bring a little gravitas to what is basically a novel about love, sex and a world where insincere celebs are fawned over by all and sundry. The descriptions of the African camp where Rosie spends four years of her life (concentrating on her career until a doctor--hunky, naturally--woos her over a few bloodied bodies) are vivid enough to force the dramatic irony forward as Rosie's past and present collide, and her jaded experiences of London life will certainly ring true for many readers.

All in all, Cause Celeb is the kind of book you might read in the bath or on the beach--not too taxing but involving and spirited enough to make you want to find out what happens in the end. --Susan Harrison

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Bridgette's Back! Gaaaah!, 12 Oct 2008
Take a couple of seconds to take this a tiny bit seriously, and it could tell you a lot about modern society. With the constant obsessing about relationships, inability to trust or communicate, dump before you're dumped mentality ... get my drift?

Anyway, having put myself through the trauma of the first book, I thought I'd better have a go at the sequel just to see how far things could sink. Surprisingly enough, although you could never say the book was deep, I did like it. In particular the way relationships were handled and the importance of friendships. The characters were developed further, making them slightly more interesting, but the plot, even wackier than the previous book, was too far fetched although written well enough for you to engage in the action. It didn't quite live up to all the hype for me, but I did laugh, once or twice.


Dire, moronic drivel, 14 Apr 2006
Here we go again - yet another moronic summing up of the modern British woman, as if we are all neurotic, ditzy, self-obsessed relationship fiends.

This book stereotypes to the point of the ridiculous, and is quite damaging to woman who actually have a brain. It is about, (as if you didn't know) Bridget, a self-obsessed airhead moron who, laughably, we are supposed to believe is a journalist. If this is based on a real person, that makes me even angrier. I did not waste my time studying journalism for three years to share breathing space with morons like this; bimbos whose main preoccupations in life are whether to use large pants or the cheap, sleazy, g-string. COMPLEX STUFF! Any man reading this book could be forgiven for thinking that all women are brainless, good-for-nothing morons, but thankfully I, and others like me aren't.

The characters portrayed here are very much 'of the masses', and that's what makes the book one giant, pathetic flaw. Bridget feels guilty and empty because she is in her thirties and childless - big deal! Get a life.

The woman who wrote this unutterable pile of rot should be ashamed - she has just set women's liberation back by about fifty years.

Wow!! What a great read!!, 18 Nov 2005
I found this on my wife's dressing table and I have not been able to put it down since! I thought it was going to general chick flick stuff! But no! It has given me a genuine insight into the dilemas faced by the modern woman about town! Will recommend to my friend Don.

Bridget Jones, 14 Jun 2005
If youve seen the movie, then you definalty have to read the book. The book goes more into detail about the plot that the movie. Once you begin to read it, you cannot put the book down. Bridget has her peculiar ways that are extremly funny, which you will find. This book is excently written. At some moments it makes you feel as if you are actually Bridget.

A Great buy...and must read.

Hilarious, 13 Apr 2005
This is a book which I have put off reading so many times that it was embarrassing, but Helen Fielding has managed to produce a book which many of the female population could identify with.

This hilarious, laugh aloud book deals with many of the problems that a girl could come across, men, weight and builders to name but a few.

The only problem with the book is the need to exercise some discretion on where you read it, otherwise you could end up in an embarassing situation in true Bridget style.

Bridgette's Back! Gaaaah!, 12 Oct 2008
Take a couple of seconds to take this a tiny bit seriously, and it could tell you a lot about modern society. With the constant obsessing about relationships, inability to trust or communicate, dump before you're dumped mentality ... get my drift?

Anyway, having put myself through the trauma of the first book, I thought I'd better have a go at the sequel just to see how far things could sink. Surprisingly enough, although you could never say the book was deep, I did like it. In particular the way relationships were handled and the importance of friendships. The characters were developed further, making them slightly more interesting, but the plot, even wackier than the previous book, was too far fetched although written well enough for you to engage in the action. It didn't quite live up to all the hype for me, but I did laugh, once or twice.


Dire, moronic drivel, 14 Apr 2006
Here we go again - yet another moronic summing up of the modern British woman, as if we are all neurotic, ditzy, self-obsessed relationship fiends.

This book stereotypes to the point of the ridiculous, and is quite damaging to woman who actually have a brain. It is about, (as if you didn't know) Bridget, a self-obsessed airhead moron who, laughably, we are supposed to believe is a journalist. If this is based on a real person, that makes me even angrier. I did not waste my time studying journalism for three years to share breathing space with morons like this; bimbos whose main preoccupations in life are whether to use large pants or the cheap, sleazy, g-string. COMPLEX STUFF! Any man reading this book could be forgiven for thinking that all women are brainless, good-for-nothing morons, but thankfully I, and others like me aren't.

The characters portrayed here are very much 'of the masses', and that's what makes the book one giant, pathetic flaw. Bridget feels guilty and empty because she is in her thirties and childless - big deal! Get a life.

The woman who wrote this unutterable pile of rot should be ashamed - she has just set women's liberation back by about fifty years.

Wow!! What a great read!!, 18 Nov 2005
I found this on my wife's dressing table and I have not been able to put it down since! I thought it was going to general chick flick stuff! But no! It has given me a genuine insight into the dilemas faced by the modern woman about town! Will recommend to my friend Don.

Bridget Jones, 14 Jun 2005
If youve seen the movie, then you definalty have to read the book. The book goes more into detail about the plot that the movie. Once you begin to read it, you cannot put the book down. Bridget has her peculiar ways that are extremly funny, which you will find. This book is excently written. At some moments it makes you feel as if you are actually Bridget.

A Great buy...and must read.

Hilarious, 13 Apr 2005
This is a book which I have put off reading so many times that it was embarrassing, but Helen Fielding has managed to produce a book which many of the female population could identify with.

This hilarious, laugh aloud book deals with many of the problems that a girl could come across, men, weight and builders to name but a few.

The only problem with the book is the need to exercise some discretion on where you read it, otherwise you could end up in an embarassing situation in true Bridget style.

Not the lightweight novel it at first seems!, 22 Oct 2008
This is the first novel by Helen Fielding of Bridget Jones fame which she wrote in 1994. Surprisingly I never read until now. It is a satirical story full of both ridiculous and tragic events about what happens when celebrity aid comes to the help of famine relief in Africa. It is this angle that makes this novel more than just another chick lit type novel. It is I read a subject Helen Fielding is interested in and she has worked in producing documentaries for relief for such famines.
The heroine Rosie Richardson is living in London, working in publishing when we first meet her. After a disastrous relationship with Oliver Marchant a minor television celebrity who turns out to be cruel and manipulative she becomes disillusioned with her lifestyle. As a complete life change she heads for Africa to work as a Director of a refugee camp, for a charity. Four years later famine strikes and desperate for funds Rosie decides to use her celebrity acquaintances to raise emergency funds by organising a television appeal from the camp itself.
Towards the end of the novel the descriptions of the human suffering are powerful and disturbing. It is fourteen years since this novel was written and sadly many parts of the world are still suffering in such a way, despite worldwide campaigns to try and reduce such incidents.
I quote from the novel direct as I think it is an excellent reaction of the horrors as viewed by the aid workers and celebrities. `It was such a monumental horror that it felt as though nothing should be the same any more, nothing should continue: none of us should speak or do anything, the sun should not be moving across the sky and the wind should not blow. It did not seem possible that such a thing as this could be taking place without the world having to shudder to a halt and think again.'
This might start out seeming like a lightweight novel but it certainly does not leave you feeling that way at the end!


Something a bit different., 21 Mar 2005
Fielding writes well when she writes about girls in publishing, when our heroine Rosie, goes to Africa on a promotional trip her priorities change and she realises how shallow her life was in London, thus giving her the strength to walk away from her relationship to go and help in a refugee camp. Four years on and there is a potential crisis. The camps need food urgently and bureaucracy is getting in the way so Rosie takes matters in her own hands and uses her contacts to get a media appeal up and running.

I don't want to go into anymore details but the book is lovely, though it is emotional. Rosie's original London character is a bit pathetic, but she comes out the other side. The book is griping and entertaining but not particularly challenging, although the subject matter is a bit different from most books in the chick lit genre.

Better than Bridget Jones, 09 Jul 2001
Those who found the succès fou of Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones books too fou for their taste may yet appreciate Cause Celeb.

This novel is not just for the Melissa Bank set but will also satisfy those who have graduated to Diane Johnson and Francine Prose. How ironic, then, that Fielding wrote Cause Celeb before Bridget Jones's Diary, and published it, in 1994, in Britain. Bridget Jones's many fans will recognize a prototype of their heroine in Cause Celeb's narrator and protagonist, Rosie Richardson. Rosie quickly tires of self-absorption and neurotic romance with a glamourous Londoner, and throws herself into famine relief in Africa. She is not so naive, however, as to try to escape her past, and ultimately the two strands of the tale become one. Rosie displays a keen sense of humor whether she is rubbing shoulders with show-biz personalities or muddling along in the refugee camp-and isn't humor exactly the quality that would enable a person to get through either situation more or less sane?

Don't worry: Cause Celeb doesn't play famine relief for laughs-or fawn over fashionable people who do their bit to help. This is a deft, subtle, admirable, pleasurable book.

Actually preferred the cassettes!, 21 May 2001
The cassettes, narrarated by Bernadette Quigley, are really fun. They carried me through a dull patch of a long car trip, Florida to Chicago! Her accents and spirit were really amazing, and gets better and better. This is def. a case of the cassette being better than reading it...I tried reading it about a month before the tapes, and had a hard time getting into it (usually it's the other way around for me).

The book isn't great over all, but it really has it moments, the narrator really has fun with it (at times she's just a hair away from a Monty Python skit, at other times, she's pretty intense).

I highly recommend this cassette OVER the book, for a fun, light and spirited car ride.

Brilliant, 17 Aug 2000
Couldn't put this one down. Easy to read and gripping, fast paced tale. Well done to Helen Fielding. More like this please.

Where do you go after Bridget Jones? Creator Helen Fielding's response has been to go somewhere completely different. Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, Fielding's fourth novel, is a spy-thriller whose sassy heroine, the eponymous Joules, doesn't fret about weight gain, laddering her tights or Chardonnay and fags in the manner of her predecessor. Oh no--Olivia, once plain old Rachel Pixley from Worksop, is a self-made, go-getting journalist for the Sunday Times and Elan magazine with, or so her colleagues at the ST maintain, "an overactive imagination" and an impeccable gift for languages. Both of these come in handy when Olivia is despatched to Miami to cover a face-cream launch, meets the enigmatic Pierre Ferramo, an international playboy, and finds herself on the scene of an al-Qaeda bomb attack. (Question: where, exactly, do Elsie and Edward rustle up that tray of tea from?)

Cue meetings with suitably disreputable people (wannabe film stars, Arab carpet vendors, spies, terrorists) in an array of exotic locales (LA, Honduras, Egypt) as Olivia goes on the trail of the terrorists and, utterly implausibly, is recruited to MI6 (they can't get the staff nowadays). A ridiculous plot is not exactly a hanging offence in a spy-thriller, which is probably just as well here. Sadly, for Fielding, however, we do inhabit a post-Austin-Powers universe and Olivia, a walking digest of Susan Jeffers platitudes, is hard to take: seriously or otherwise. None of it is very funny, nor thrilling. Olivia is more Nancy Drew than Modesty Blaise or, crucially, Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum.

Still, you can have great fun playing Bond-bingo with the clichés. Family wiped out in freak accident. Tick. Greasy henchmen. Tick. Gadgets. Tick. Charismatic al-Qaeda villain, who to Olivia's amusement, admittedly, really does use the sentences: "It is a great delicacy in our land" and "Evidently, you are connoisseur of great beauty. As am I." (Alas, "I expect you to die, Ms Joules" and "He's inside the belly of that steel beast", do not materialise.) Maybe there's a clue in the title; perhaps the whole shebang is intended to be taken with a huge bag of Saxo. As Scott Rich, the CIA hunk, says to Olivia as the tale closes: "Oh don't be silly, lovey. It's just a figment of your overactive imagination." If only. --Travis Elborough

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Absolute masterpiece, 21 Jun 2008
I am on my fourth read of Bridget Jones's Diary and I have watched the film at least fifty times. I'm addicted. The book is fantastic, I can guarantee you will not be able to put it down and will read it probably within less than a week.

*brilliant* ;), 06 Nov 2007
Actually I don't like diary novels, I thought, when I considered reading this book. Now I'm glad that I did read it anyway, because now I know that I love at least one diary-book, in fact Bridget Jones's Diary!

This funny and lovely Book was written by Helen Fielding who was born in Yorkshire. Today she lives in London, where the story of Bridget Jones, the main character, takes place as well. Published in 1997, the book was very successful in England. Later it became a global best-seller.

With her first diary-entry, Bridget characterizes in a few sentences the whole generation of women which she belongs to: She's not only too thick, moreover she tries to stop smoking desperately. In addition, pursed by bad conscience, she counts how much alcohol she drinks each day. As if she, as a single woman in London at the age of 30, didn't have enough other problems, she makes the New Year's resolution to find a boyfriend within the next year. A nice one, to spend her life with. For example her boss Daniel Cleaver who is very attractive. He seems to be open for a relationship but only as long as it is uncomplicated and non-binding. This causes many problems.
Till next New Year's Eve it's not only her weight that goes up and down. It's the same with many other chapters in her life because she is very talented in walking into traps, what is always very funny and entertaining.

Well, all things considered the book tells a story about a chaotic, lovely and not-married woman who tries to change her life.
It is very entertaining with typical Brtitish-humour and much irony. I often had to laugh out loud when I was reading it and that is the reason why I'm giving this book five stars. Above all the characterization is brilliant and the writing excellent. The plot isn't really profund but nevertheless it's fascinating and
never boring. I think many women in the whole world can identify themselves with Bridget, so I think that the moral message of the book is the following: You're not alone with your problems. There are other people who share them with you. Just take it easy! ;)

I really enjoyed reading it and if you're looking for a funny book to get you in a good mood, you wouldn't find a better one, I think.

In Bridget's crazy live she nearly misses to find the right man but don't you miss to read more about it yourself. ;)



Totally hilarious., 06 Aug 2007
Now this book is absolutely hilarious, easy to read and easy to understand. I could read this book repeatedly but I would reccommend this for the ages of 19 to infinity and beyond. While reading this book I was doubled up laughing and if i wasn't doubled up I was choking with laughter. Thank you and I hope this helps. Enjoy the book.

Hilarious easy reading, 14 Feb 2007
If you are wanting a novel that challenges you and makes you think.... Then maybe Pride and Prejudice or Jane Eyre are more for you. But, if you want a page turner that has you doubled over crying with laughter... this is your perfect book.
Its easy to read and one of the only books i have EVER read that has made me laugh out loud.
Some books make you think "oh thats funny" some books make you smile. This book will make you unable to read because the tears of laughter are blurring your vision!

Read it!

Whats the hype all about?, 03 Apr 2006
I saw the movie first and found it entertaining. A bit of harmless fun. The book was a complete dissapointment. I have nothing against the concept of a 30 something woman trying to improve her love life and trying to lose weight . But the quality of writing is so poor! Helen Fielding shows no talent whatsoever in bringing out the turmoils , the joys and vexations of such a woman's life. Its a trite commonplace piece of writing and I saw nothing worthy of literary merit in it.I cannot belive it was considered to be one of the top 100 novels of the 20th centuary. Its is a dissapointing and dismaying indicator of what taste is coming to in this centuary.

Bridgette's Back! Gaaaah!, 12 Oct 2008
Take a couple of seconds to take this a tiny bit seriously, and it could tell you a lot about modern society. With the constant obsessing about relationships, inability to trust or communicate, dump before you're dumped mentality ... get my drift?

Anyway, having put myself through the trauma of the first book, I thought I'd better have a go at the sequel just to see how far things could sink. Surprisingly enough, although you could never say the book was deep, I did like it. In particular the way relationships were handled and the importance of friendships. The characters were developed further, making them slightly more interesting, but the plot, even wackier than the previous book, was too far fetched although written well enough for you to engage in the action. It didn't quite live up to all the hype for me, but I did laugh, once or twice.


Dire, moronic drivel, 14 Apr 2006
Here we go again - yet another moronic summing up of the modern British woman, as if we are all neurotic, ditzy, self-obsessed relationship fiends.

This book stereotypes to the point of the ridiculous, and is quite damaging to woman who actually have a brain. It is about, (as if you didn't know) Bridget, a self-obsessed airhead moron who, laughably, we are supposed to believe is a journalist. If this is based on a real person, that makes me even angrier. I did not waste my time studying journalism for three years to share breathing space with morons like this; bimbos whose main preoccupations in life are whether to use large pants or the cheap, sleazy, g-string. COMPLEX STUFF! Any man reading this book could be forgiven for thinking that all women are brainless, good-for-nothing morons, but thankfully I, and others like me aren't.

The characters portrayed here are very much 'of the masses', and that's what makes the book one giant, pathetic flaw. Bridget feels guilty and empty because she is in her thirties and childless - big deal! Get a life.

The woman who wrote this unutterable pile of rot should be ashamed - she has just set women's liberation back by about fifty years.

Wow!! What a great read!!, 18 Nov 2005
I found this on my wife's dressing table and I have not been able to put it down since! I thought it was going to general chick flick stuff! But no! It has given me a genuine insight into the dilemas faced by the modern woman about town! Will recommend to my friend Don.

Bridget Jones, 14 Jun 2005
If youve seen the movie, then you definalty have to read the book. The book goes more into detail about the plot that the movie. Once you begin to read it, you cannot put the book down. Bridget has her peculiar ways that are extremly funny, which you will find. Thi