Bridget Jones—one of the most beloved characters in modern literature (v.g.)—is back! In Helen Fielding's wildly funny, hotly anticipated new novel, Bridget faces a few rather pressing questions: What do you do when your girlfriend’s sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend’s thirtieth?Is it better to die of Botox or die of loneliness because you’re so wrinkly?Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating?Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice?Is it normal to be too vain to put on your reading glasses when checking your toy boy for head lice?Does the Dalai Lama actually tweet or is it his assistant?Is it normal to get fewer followers the more you tweet?Is techno...
This Satire give to us some advantages, like this :
1. Tiresome
Maybe it's me. Maybe because Bridget and I are about the same age, I could identify with her in my 30s and got a lot of giggles watching her fumble through life. But fumbling through life in your 50s, still obsessing about weight and men and cigarettes? Not so funny. The diary entries are self-indulgent and paranoid and annoying.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Mark is dead. Brige is a widow with two young kids and a much younger lover. And I honestly wonder if, prior to writing this book, Ms. Fielding's people could not secure Colin Firth to play Mark in any future film adaptation and thus she changed the story line. Because, why on EARTH would you kill off Mark? A really wonderful book would have taken up where the last one left off, telling the story of Brige's wedding and marriage to Mark and the arrival of a Darcy heir.
But jumping - what, 12? 14? - years into the future and finding the exact some woman with no insight, no maturity and no self-respect was really...
2. I Am So Lost
I love Bridget Jones, so much so that I got off work early today just to read this novel I have been waiting for. The novel where I hoped Bridget and Mark finally worked out all the kinks and were having a baby, only to have Daniel come in and mess it all up. I mean come on... third times a charm right? I wanted to be shocked by this whole book so I read none of the clues or hints dropped leading up to the release. But I hated this book and I don't use that word lightly. The book starts off talking about people and things COMPLETELY unfamiliar to me and in a way that looks like a vomiting Twitter feed. Once characters are explained I'm left thinking - why the hell so much later in life? Why am I getting invested in these new characters when the old characters are wilting away with little care? We missed all the good stuff? Where it does pick it it stumbles into things unknown again and then the bomb drops... Fielding killed off one of the most beloved, ESSENTIAL characters of the...
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No preconceived notions here
I think a lot of people have been dissapointed that the author didn't follow their personal hopes for how Bridget would live out her life. To enjoy this book, you need to clear all that out of your head and start with a neutral attitude. Once you get past the initial shock of what her situation is, this book is very enjoyable. Yes it is darker and a little more ridiculous, but I think the ridiculousness helps to offset the darker parts. I like how Bridget has in some ways matured, but she also still can't help but fall back to her old ways and fears as we all do from time to time. I was sad at Mark dying, but the way the story is told, you really do want to cheer on Bridget to make it on her own. I say this book is worth a read, but DO NOT stop after only the beginning part, which is the hardest to swallow for old fans I think. It gets better as it goes, I promise!
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