Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (hardcover)
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Hardcover with dustjacket bought for $2.99 plus tax at the Salvation Army at 176 Bedford Ave. (on the corner of N. 7th Street, near the L) in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, USA. (I released a hardcover and three mass-market paperbacks in Brooklyn, then I bought a hardcover and three mass-market paperbacks at "Salvation Armani.") Now I can release the copy I received from thewhich. ("M. Ward, April '00" is written on the first page of this one.)
I read another copy a week before seeing the 2004 movie and liked it almost as much as the first book. I "awwwwed" at the end. Should've read it months earlier, though -- as I watched, I kept comparing the movie to the book, instead of enjoying it on its own merits. I'd done the same thing a few years before with the first Spider-Man movie--I grew up reading all my brother's Marvel comics, so for the first ten minutes of that movie I was horribly distracted by all the things they'd changed.
From Library Journal
This sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary actually has more of a plot than the original, though Bridget is still the dumb, ditzy journalist wannabe in search of a real relationship. If she seems dumber and ditzier here, it's not necessarily a drawback: she has some of the same charm as Anita Loo's Lorelei in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The novel is not just diary format, though the breakdown here is not just daily but, annoyingly, often minute by minute; inexplicably, Fielding has decided to drop subjects and begin sentences with verbs (e.g., "Is relief..."). Nevertheless, the sidesplitting humor is still present, particularly in a hysterical interview with actor Colin Firth, who plays Mr. Darcy in the BBC-TV version of Pride and Prejudice. The interview is printed unedited in the Independent (and in the novel), when Bridget fails to turn in her article in time. It begins with the incisive "What is your favorite color?" (blue) and "What is your favorite pudding?" (creme brulee). Fans will adore this. For popular fiction collections.
I read another copy a week before seeing the 2004 movie and liked it almost as much as the first book. I "awwwwed" at the end. Should've read it months earlier, though -- as I watched, I kept comparing the movie to the book, instead of enjoying it on its own merits. I'd done the same thing a few years before with the first Spider-Man movie--I grew up reading all my brother's Marvel comics, so for the first ten minutes of that movie I was horribly distracted by all the things they'd changed.
From Library Journal
This sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary actually has more of a plot than the original, though Bridget is still the dumb, ditzy journalist wannabe in search of a real relationship. If she seems dumber and ditzier here, it's not necessarily a drawback: she has some of the same charm as Anita Loo's Lorelei in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The novel is not just diary format, though the breakdown here is not just daily but, annoyingly, often minute by minute; inexplicably, Fielding has decided to drop subjects and begin sentences with verbs (e.g., "Is relief..."). Nevertheless, the sidesplitting humor is still present, particularly in a hysterical interview with actor Colin Firth, who plays Mr. Darcy in the BBC-TV version of Pride and Prejudice. The interview is printed unedited in the Independent (and in the novel), when Bridget fails to turn in her article in time. It begins with the incisive "What is your favorite color?" (blue) and "What is your favorite pudding?" (creme brulee). Fans will adore this. For popular fiction collections.
