Bridget Jones's Guide to Life
by Helen Fielding
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Author: Helen FieldingEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-11
ISBN: 0142000213
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of Bridget Jones's Guide to Life
Book Review: Ummm.....kinda disappointed
Summary: 2 Stars
I love Bridget Jones, and I do feel a sense of loyalty to her. However, this "Guide" was dumb- it was basically a re-hash of the highlights in the 2 "Bridget" novels. If you've never read the books, this "guide" might give you just the taste of Bridget you need to get motivated to read the books. If, however, you are a devoted Bridget fan, this book will be useless to you. Bridget gives us the finer points on ordering a pizza, along with photos, just in case the written instructions were confusing. She gives us advice on cooking a lavish dinner for guests (Hello??? Didn't we already chew this in the first novel- ala Bridget's birthday bash?!?). And, Bridget gets to play pseudo-psychiatrist with Jude, Shazzer, her Mum and her Dad- each "session" spans merely 2 paragraphs a piece and ends with Bridget and her "client" getting sloshed on Chardonnay. Yeah, okay- isn't that what she and her mates do about 5 out of 7 nights of the week? In all fairness, I wasn't exactly sure what I expected when I got this "guide", but I know I expected more than a rehash of the 2 best-selling novels. It seems to me that Fielding wants to cash in while the "Bridget Jones" movie is out, thereby striking while the iron is hot. That's fine- just please, Helen, don't recycle old Bridget material. We're hoping for something new! I did, however, give this 2 stars because I chuckled in exactly 3 places, and because I love Bridget and the joy she's brought me and my friends. But, this book isn't worth going ga-ga over.
Summary of Bridget Jones's Guide to Life
Exclusively for Comic Relief, Bridget Jones offers readers lots of handy hints in household management in this special edition "Bridget Jones's Guide to Life". Especially for Red Nose Day, the limited edition will be available from the 12th of March.No one will be fooled by this little piece of ephemera. This is not anything like a new Bridget Jones book. It's a revisiting of old jokes, old characters, old stories. That said, there's something curiously addictive about Helen Fielding's creation, and this bonbon should satisfy a Jones jones until the (inevitable) next full-length novel comes along. The Guide to Life is a brief (64 pages) how-to manual from the notoriously inept singleton. To wit: In her chapter on homemaking (titled "The Fragrant Home"), Bridget gives her reader advice on the atmospheric charm of a cozy fire. "The key words here are 'in the grate.'" As to food, she largely confines herself to finding a piece of old cheese in the fridge and cutting off the moldy bits. She does, however, get in one really useful suggestion when she explains how to play the parlor game Shag, Marry or Push off a Cliff. The rules? "Each of the players suggests three names.... The person on the player's right must then decide, if they absolutely had to shag one of them, marry another, and push another off a cliff, which it would be. It is usually best to pick three which are similar in some way." Examples: Russell Crowe, Mr. Darcy, Hugh Grant. Or, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Idi Amin. The author then adds a caveat of typically Jonesian sensitivity: "It doesn't matter if any of them are dead as it is only a game." For those who cry foul at Helen Fielding's cashing in on her phenomenal franchise, it should be noted that some of the proceeds from the book will go to Comic Relief. That's the very organization, incidentally, that the author sends up in her non-Jones novel Cause Celeb--a smart, highly entertaining book that also makes a decent stopgap for Bridgetphiliacs. --Claire Dederer
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