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Bridget Jones' Diary by: Helen Fielding

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Rating: - Laugh out loud funny

In one of those coincidence thingies, both this book and the movie landed on my desk at the same time. Recognizing a sign when I saw one, I started with the book, seeing that it was written before the movie, and things should, after all, go in their natural order.

The first thing I had to do was go back in time a bit and try to remember my tables, when I realized that the little notations like 8st 11 were references to weight. After spending a few moments contemplating the complexity of 14 times tables, I took out my calculator to work out that Bridget weighed 129 lbs at the first chapter. This I thought was perfectly normal for a healthy young woman, and tried to remember if I had weighed that little at birth.

Fast forwarding to the summary of this outrageously funny book, I can tell you that it is about the hilarious episodes that led to Bridget Jones drinking 3,836 units of alcohol, smoking 5,277 cigarettes, eating 11,090,265 calories, gaining 72 lbs and losing 73 within a calendar year.

Laid out in the format of entries in a diary (hence the title - duh), we get the privilege of following every calamity and crisis of her romantic life (mostly pitiful), her weight swings (ongoing), her mother's midlife crisis (v.g.), her neurotic friends and their problems (numerous), her job exploits (unimpressive), her weakness for gambling on scratch cards (improvement required) and her cooking skills (non existent)

Once you pick it up you'll want to finish it in one sitting, and I was laughing out loud without even caring that people were beginning to edge away from me. (not so good). Just when you think you have the measure of the book, it picks up the pace in the last chapters, and turns into a madcap romp of pure reading pleasure.

Highly recommended for everyone except males with commitment problems, those dreadful people who can eat all they want without gaining weight, and European con men.

Amanda Richards

Rating: - Bridget Jones's Diary

This book was wonderfully hilarious! A must read! Bridget Jones is a comical charachter with many things on her mind such as to quit drinking, smoking, lose weight and get a boyfriend. This is something you don't want to miss!

Rating: - A Must-Read

This book was fantastic! Really easy-reading and skilfully written to have me laughing out loud throughout. I could not put it down and cannot wait to read the sequel. A perfect read for teenagers and adults alike.

Rating: - If you haven't read it yet THEN DO!!!!!!

I bought this book when it was first released. Naturally, I lent it to a friend, and, naturally, I never got it back. So I bought the book again, after having seen the film. A must have in every girls bookshelf. Everyone of us have a felt like a Bridget at some point in our lives. Some of us feel like that everyday. It is amazing how someone can describe our feelings exactly. Touching, funny and very, very real. If you are a lady you must read it. If you are a guy READ IT. You will understand us a bit better.

Rating: - My favourite book!

Bridget Jones's Diary is my absolute favourite book ever. I bought it very early on, told everyone I knew about it and always loved it. I read it again a few years later and loved it even more than I had remembered.

I love it for many reasons: it is very funny, and frustrating, and ultimately satisfying. It makes me think "Oh Bridget, what are you doing?!", as though she is one of my friends. The character is very lovable because she is portaryed as a real woman with faults and bad habits, but she is a very good person.

I would recommend it to any woman, but to the more serious-minded would say don't expect a literary masterpiece, just a very good easy-to-read novel.

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