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Bridget Jones' Diary by: Helen Fielding

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Rating: - To think forests are felled to print this dreary rubbish!!!

Unquestionably one of the worst books ever printed, what an absolute waste of paper – to think forests are felled to print this dreary rubbish. If ever there were a book riddled with clichés, it would have to be this one.

Rating: - Someone we can all identify in some way with

Definately not your usual all round perfect heroine here. Bridget is a thiry something, despairing about her "singleton" status and desperate to change it. She's unorganized, makes plenty of unkept resolutions, seems to have everything going wrong and behaves like a madly in love schoolgirl around her big big crush-Daniel Cleaver.
But all this just serves to make us identify better with her. Surely sometime during our life we must have blurted something stupid out at the wrong moment, or made a grossly horrendous error that makes us just want to dissapear into the ground, or made a fool of ourselves in front of our crush. Thats the charm this book has. Helen Fielding has wrote a literary masterpiece that makes you feel better about your mistakes as you can say "hey, thats me!" when you read and have a good laugh about it, as Bridget relates it in that funny way of hers.
It has an ending that leaves you feeling hopeful that perhaps despite all the things that can go wrong, despite being such a walking disaster( as we're all apt to think ourselves) perhaps we can all end up alright after all.
Who can tell?
We're all a little "Bridgety" after all aren't we?

Rating: - total comic genius

A comic triumph, fielding creates a character completely individual in her iconic status. In this day and age of pressures on women Bridget is unique and refreshing in her realism; the most universally identifiable character i think i have ever come across. The book is witty, intelligent without being overbearing, observant, and quite frankly utterly hilarious. Fielding brings Austen bang up to date and her bridgetisms have been firmly implanted in the british vernacular giving the book lasting appeal. Dont let the film put you off, the book is infinetly better, mainting all the subtleties inevitably lost through 'hollywoodisation'. Read it, then read it again and again!

Rating: - A brilliant and funny novel

REVIEWER:A STUDENT FROM ITALY(PAVIA)
An excellent,brilliant,funny and lively novel that sometimes makes the reader laugh loud.
"Bridget Jones's diary",written by a talented author,with a plain style and a colloquial language,is the diary of a thirty-year-old woman who has to fight"tooth and nails" against cigarettes,alcohol,calories,love and a nuisance mother.
Love is the central topic of the novel.Bridget wants,she extremely wants a boyfriend,but her relationship with men are a true failure.At the beginnig she is attracted by Daniel,her boss,an unriable,selfish man,who doesn't love her;but at the end Mark Darcy,an elegant lawer,turns out to be Bridget's true love.
Troughout the book Helen Fielding exceptionally presents a lot of other themes that make this novel the perfect portrait of a single girl of our society:the Christmas party,Bridget's friends, the new job as a reporter...
After reading it I was able to understand the great success and the reason why everyone has seen the film version.
I think that "Bridget Jones's diary" is a hit book thanks to Bridget herself:she is very similar to real women with all their female problems and so,after two or three pages of the book,she is like an old friend.
Everyone can read it and if you want to have a good time,go and get it!!

Rating: - Book is good, film is fantastic

Most of the reviews I've read either worship this book or think the film is much better. Well, I lie somewhere in the middle. I watched the film first on a girls night out and it is now my favourite film to date. I then read the book and while I found it funny and could relate really well to Bridget, I wasn't laughing out load as I'd hoped. I think the point is the book should be read before watching the film otherwise the subtleties are lost and the everyday worries about weight and fags get a little tedious. Still, it filled a gap in a dull family holiday.

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