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Bridget Jones' Diary by: Helen Fielding

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Rating: - My new religion!

I swear by this book! I have never read a book where I have literally laughed out loud and cried. It was hard to put it down. I hated to finish it, luckily there is a sequal to the book... which is just as hilarious! If you love a good laugh, you'll love it! God bless Bridget!

Rating: - 20th Century Neuroses

Bridget Jones is your typical 30-something single woman in any large city around the world. At least that's what Helen Fielding would like us to believe. The truth is Bridget Jones is certainly an atypical 30-something single female from a "comfortable" background with a good job, in publishing as it happens, and all the attendant middle-class hangups about her physical size and what people think about her.

If you are not part of this "clique" and you just know that she went to a public school and not the local comprehensive, then this book may well leave you cold. The only bits that will ring true are the getting righteiusly plastered with girlfriends whilst setting the world to rights and bemoaning all men

Frankly this book fitted a time and a place that just doesn't exist any more for most of the world's population. It passes a rainy afternoon but that is about all that can be said for it.

Rating: - Nice, yet overrated

I had to read this one rapidly as it belonged to one of my fellow travellers and she left soon afterwards, but I managed in 5 hours (two nights). Easy reading material can be concluded. Highly appreciated in the press everywhere. I wouldn't say it's brilliant, but I had to laugh out loud quite a few times while reading. In the style Adrian Mole made famous, Bridget is a thirty something, who hasn't got a boyfriend yet, struggles with her weight, doesn't have a really good job and a family full of problems on top of it. Though sometimes a bit farfetched, other parts seem fairly real life stuff, that everybody could recognize. That's probably the strength of it as well. Buy it if you've got plenty of dosh, borrow it, somebody you know must have it, it has been sold millions, if not the library will have it. It's a light and entertaining read.

Rating: - A truly fantastic read.

This is quite possibly the best book I have ever read.It is one of those addictive books that you really cannot put down.Every chance I could,I would pick it up and read it.It made me laugh out loud while I was reading it on the bus!.
It makes you look at your own life,most women will be able to relate to it but most of all,it will make you laugh and laugh!.Helen Fielding is a genius for creating Brigette Jones and every woman should read this book.I loved it and have read it so many times since I first brought it in 1997.

Rating: - Helen Fielding - how did she know...?

Helen Fielding has captured a real slice of the nineties between the covers of this hilarious and touching novel. Anyone woman who does not understand at least 50% of what wacky Bridget is on about is the real one-off. In addition to being an accurate representation of our times, Bridget Jones is an ingeniously concocted and heart-breakingly real woman, her private scribblings exposed for the nation to read and, consequently, identify with. Far from claims that Bridget is obsessing over nothing (though it is true; her recorded weights would create scant cause for concern), her problems ARE VERY REAL to her and subsequently to many women who are afraid to confess it. I encourage any woman who has ever found herself hiding in the toilets from an embarrasing situation, wondering where all the wine got to, or promising to start a diet tomorrow, to stand tall, tuck your stomach in, and VOTE BRIDGET JONES FOR PRESIDENT!

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