Bridget Jones's Diary - SFBA Book Club

Paperback, 336 pages

English language

Published Jan. 2, 2016 by Picador Classic.

ISBN:: 978-1-5098-1388-9
OCLC Number:: 956523258

(2 reviews)

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be ca//ed Mr Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty ot a party. It's like being ca//ed Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy' and banging your head against a tree.

Bridget Jones's Diary documents Bridget's struggles through the social minefield of her thirties — the merits of being a singleton versus a smug married, the advantages of wearing a see-through top to work, and how to handle her crazed match-making mother. Through it all she is supported by four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay. Is this a dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

Bridget Jones's Diary was first published in 1996 and.applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. …

It struck me as pretty ridiculous to be ca//ed Mr Darcy and to stand on your own looking snooty ot a party. It's like being ca//ed Heathcliff and insisting on spending the entire evening in the garden, shouting 'Cathy' and banging your head against a tree.

Bridget Jones's Diary documents Bridget's struggles through the social minefield of her thirties — the merits of being a singleton versus a smug married, the advantages of wearing a see-through top to work, and how to handle her crazed match-making mother. Through it all she is supported by four indispensable friends: Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of chardonnay. Is this a dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something?

Bridget Jones's Diary was first published in 1996 and.applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. A number-one bestseller, it has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide and has become an indisputable modern classic. --back cover

45 editions

pootriarch reviewed Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones, #1)

Childhood turning point

5 stars

The good parts of this have stayed with us, though often having become clichés; the not-so-great parts, well anything looks a bit musty a generation later, doesn't it. This was a 5-star game changer for me; it created the market for (admittedly not always quality) 'chick lit', but turned the stage a bit for female authors, who were thin on the ground at the time because of how the industry was (is…) run.

With very few exceptions I rate books as I would have when they came out, not as I see them now. Two decades ago I was smashing the *** and !!! keys. And so it stays.

Vanessa

rated it

Sept. 3, 2012

Subjects

English literature