Bridget Jones's Diary: A Novel Paperback – 20 June 1997

Absurdly honest. Absurdly funny. Absurdly real. g h y y h y u i h y g w t h

I purchased a second hand version, so it's worth it. This book is hilarious through and through. If you enjoy the 90s era of flip phones and British comedy, you should go for it.

Amazing book.Amazing quality.Worth fir prize.:)

A book that's a good book to read. Not that you learn anything from it except for the fact that boys are mean and you could woo one by saying 'Pardon' instead of saying 'Sorry'. The book is hilarious,undoubtedly. You could relate to some of it.Read it not as an intellectual quest but to pass your time with a read that will tickle your funny bone. :)

A fun reading.

Too small print

Good Job

Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding is a dark humored, chick-lit novel followed by two other sequels. The novel/diary is in first person narrative by the protagonist of the series, Bridget Jones, giving a peek into an year of her life in the form of her diary entries, with her friends and family bringing in the required spice.Bridget is a 30-something singleton, overweight, living in a one bedroom flat and working in a publishing company, with no idea whatsoever as to where her life is headed. While she desperately tries to manage her life, reduce weight, quit smoking, drink less and eat healthy, somehow, she always ends up doing the opposite! She maintains a diary, wherein she jots down the score of her attempts of the previous day and the miseries of her life.Bridget’s life is on a downhill, despite repeated attempts to get into a healthy adult relationship, she is still single, at an age where her former peers are already “Smug Married”, perilously ready to mingle, even with her own womanizing boss, Daniel Cleaver. Flirting over the office chat, she and Daniel have an affair, while trying to maintain normalcy in their professional conduct. While Daniel seems to be enjoying his piece of meat as usual, Bridget starts to get emotionally attached to him, already dreaming and planning about all the mini breaks they would be taking together. So when Bridget’s mother invites the couple over to her place, Bridget is more than happy to oblige this time (she hates going to such occasion for people plague her with the perennial “How’s your love life” kinda questions). Only, Bridget finds herself driving alone to her parents’ since Dan had some important official work, to which everybody thinks the poor Bridget is bluffing about having a boyfriend at last. Furious, Bridget returns and storms into Dan’s apartment, finds a naked woman on his roof, ends her affair with him and turns to her wretched life once more.Her mother tries to set her up with the divorced yet handsome and smug bachelor Mark Darcy. On her behest, Bridget tries to chat him up but is infuriated when she overhears him talking ill of her. Meanwhile, Dan tries to win her back, just to get laid again, to which our girl refuses blatantly, very much against her heart but in sync with her mind. Later, an encounter in London gives Mark the perfect chance to apologize for his ungentlemanly behavior, to which Bridget takes a liking and forgives him. Hence begins Bridget’s first good relationship in many years.This book is a modernized take on the classic, Pride and Prejudice. The girl falls for the baddie, while Mr. Right is sidelined, only to take over at the right moment and blow her away. Despite being repetitive at times (count of cigarettes and drinks and weight and calories in each and every entry), it manages to make it a part of the plot and the reader goes LOL. The plot, though transcribed, is unmistakably funny. On one hand, while Bridget is caught up in a fantasy world of her own during her affair with Daniel, the other hand shows us a real, not-so-bright side of the protagonist, after her break-up, getting all envious of the Smug Marrieds. The contrast between both her characteristics is relatable, adding credibility to the story. Also, Bridget’s mother is one hell of a character! That woman can never leave her daughter alone, she thinks her little girl is still little and unable to make the right choices, which is true to some extent. The story gives us some major friendship goals, stick together in despair and drink and curse (or keep yourself together because what’s worse than becoming a Smug Married yourself is your friends becoming Smug Married!). To all those who think that a novel, however hilarious, about an unmarried 30-something, her romantic trysts and her trials and tribulations to find herself her Mr. Right can’t be interesting enough, this book is the answer.

Not only was my copy in great shape, but it was actually signed by the author 🤣 It was a nice little bonus.

Buena compra.

I very much enjoyed this classic read, having watched the film but never read the book.A flash back to that period in time and evocative of those early career days. You realise that she was never fat, just hugely insecure. Whilst I enjoyed the film, the book at great depth and I’m glad to have read it

This was my second book to improve my English, although it has a lot of vocabulary and phrasal verbs I enjoyed it, it has been one of the funniest book that I have read it

Un libro molto leggibile, soprattutto per chi vuole imparare lo slang.