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    Bridget Jones's Diary

    Written by Helen Fielding

    Narrated by Tracie Bennett

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    About this audiobook

    Newly released movie tie-in edition!

    Meet Bridget Jones -- a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers is she could:

    a) lose 7 pounds
    b) stop smoking
    c) develop Inner Poise

    Here is the laugh-out-loud daily chronicle of a hilarious year in the life of the devastatingly self-aware Bridget Jones; a year in which she resolves to: reduce the circumference of each thigh by 1 1/2 inches, visit the gym three times a week not merely to buy a sandwich, and form a functional relationship with a responsible adult.

    Bridget struggles to keep her life on an even keel -- or at least afloat. Whenever her plans meet with disaster, she manages to pick herself up, go out on the town, and tell herself it will be all right in the morning, when life will definitely be different this time and totally alcohol, calorie, and perverted-misogynist free.

    Bridget Jones's Diary will make you like yourself for precisely those things you're most ashamed of. And through it all, Bridget Jones will have you helpless with laughter, and shouting,
    "Bridget Jones is me!"
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateApr 10, 2001
    ISBN9780375419638
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    Bridget Jones's Diary
    Author

    Helen Fielding

    Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She is the author of Cause Celeb, Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination, and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy. She co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason, starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.

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    Reviews for Bridget Jones's Diary

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    • 1/5
      (My more detailed thoughts are posted on my blog. An excerpt follows.)

      . . . it is [Fielding's] responsibility to convince us to suspend our disbelief, to cause us to come to like her heroine, to cause us to feel worried for Bridget’s sake; in my opinion, Fielding fails at these tasks quite prodigiously.

      . . .

      If Bridget was not intended to be likeable, then certainly Fielding may be forgiven for not making her so, but that would still leave me in the situation of having read 320 pages about the trials and tribulations of a woman I don’t much like, whose problems do not much interest me. As an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones’s Diary was worth reading, but I think I would not have read it otherwise, and I do not foresee myself reading it again for pleasure.
    • 5/5
      I saw this movie ages ago--not when it came out, but after it had been out on video for about five years. It was pretty funny, but I wasn't thrilled with the cast, I think. I don't know. I felt the movie was "just okay."
      For some reason, though, I saw the audiobook for this story recently, and I thought, "Hmm.... I wonder how different the book is? Would I like it? Would it be fun to listen to?"
      The answers--yes! yes! YES!!!
      I love the format of the story--Bridget keeping an almost daily diary, starting each entry with her weight, the alcohol "units" consumed that day, and the number of cigarettes smoked that day. Sometimes, she'll add little notes, like "v.g." for "very good," or "v. poor" for "very poor," etc. Then she'll go on and describe the events of the day. It's deliciously funny, the way she goes through the exact events... sometimes, if she's struggling (like putting off cooking something, or trying to set up her video machine to record a TV show for her mother), she'll break down the event in five minute increments... it really illustrates how much of a procrastinator she is, how deeply she struggles with absolutely mundane things, etc. I found it embarrassingly funny, because I know I've done the same things!!!
      The story takes place largely in London, and Bridget and the other characters are all British... so there's a bit of slang that one has to weed through now and then. For example, Bridget would note, for several days in a row, how many "instants" she went through that day. She finally explains, down the road, that they are instant lottery tickets, similar to our pickle cards or maybe scratch-off tickets. I enjoy this about the book, though. I like they way the story flows and you either figure the language out on your own, or she eventually clears it up for you.

      The narration is done by Imogen Church. I've listened to a couple of other books narrated by her (The Woman in Cabin Ten; Into the Water; etc.), and I will be picking other audiobooks to listen to largely because she's the narrator. She does a fabulous job!!!
    • 5/5
      From my Cannonball Read V review...

      This book is so good.

      I saw the movie. I laughed at the idea that Renée Zellwegger was fat. I drooled a bit over Colin Firth’s Mark Darcy. I loved the screw-up at work where Bridget claimed she was on the phone with an author who had, unbeknownst to her, died three decades earlier, when the word fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck scrolled across the bottom of the screen. I recognized the friendship archetypes.

      The book isn’t better, or worse. It’s different, and frankly, I thought it was fantastic. I was expecting a sad, ridiculous stereotype of a woman – instead the Bridget Jones in print is a complex woman who isn’t overly intellectual but isn’t flighty or ridiculous. She’s living in a world where she’s been told what her value is in terms of looks and in terms of her marriagability. She is rational, then irrational, then rational again.

      The book has a somewhat similar storyline to the film – there is a relationship with her boss Daniel, there is a disdain, then attraction, then disdain, then attraction with Mark Darcy, all her friends are accounted for – but there are also some diversions. For example, she has a brother in the book. And her mother’s journey takes something of a dark turn. But the core of the book – and of Bridget herself – remains.

      I’m newly married, and I only spent one year as properly single in my 30s. However, I could relate to so much of Bridget’s internal monologue. Some of it was so ridiculous – like when she leaves a potential sex partner because she doesn’t want to just fuck around, and has this triumphant feminist moment … then muses “I may have been right, but my reward, I know, will be to end up all along, half-eaten by an Alsatian” – but still relatable. She’s so hard on herself – tracking her daily food consumption, her weight, her cigarette intake – and beating herself up with each weight fluctuation.

      One favorite part is when she somehow manages to get her weight down to her goal, and everyone comments that she looks a bit tired, and looked ‘better before.’ “Now I feel empty and bewildered…Eighteen years – wasted. Eighteen years of calorie- and fat-unit-base arithmetic…I feel like a scientist who discovers that his life’s work has been a total mistake.” Observations like that – as well as the one that she has lost 72 pounds and gained 74 pounds over the course of the year – are real, at least, to me, and they represent the constant struggle many women face, and how they feel they can’t win. I’ve been there. Shoot, I live there.

      She’s also hard on herself when it comes to work, and men. Whenever she has a flash of self-confidence or makes an attempt to start fresh, something inevitable pops up to derail her. Sometimes it’s silly, but most of the time it seems fairly realistic. It’s not like everything is bad, always, but there is this sort of constant underlying stress. It’s not the same stress as someone who is facing poverty, or racism, or anything so serious, but it’s that steady undercurrent saying you aren’t thin enough, or smart enough, or attractive enough, or enough like society wants you to be (i.e. married and having children). It’s the stress of wanting to fit convention, then buck it, then fit it again.

      The book feels light and deep at the same time. I’m sure if I spent more time analyzing it I could find some problems to dissect (is she an active agent, or does she fixate her life around finding a mate?) but I kind of don’t want to spend more time focusing on it because I don’t want to ruin a really fun reading experience.
    • 5/5
      Reread this pretty regularly in audiobook format. V influential work that has inspired my writing and lots of other books I've enjoyed. Viva Bridget Jones!
    • 4/5
      Very funny, chick lit.
    • 5/5
      The first and best of the 'Bridget Jones' books, Fieldling keeps the humor going through Bridget Jones' optimistic attitude that gets her through life as a singleton.
    • 2/5
      mindless entertainment
    • 5/5
      Hilarious!
    • 4/5
      Much funnier than the movie. Read it.
    • 4/5
      Charming and funny.
    • 3/5
      Good chick-lit novel
    • 3/5
      3.5
      It was pretty funny at times but also kind of painful during the really awkward moments. kind of reminds me of New Girl.
    • 4/5
      This book was hilarious. I'm not generally one for chick lit, but for some reason, I can make an exception for Bridget Jones. The journal entries read almost like someone has peered into *my* head and dressed up my thoughts in a funny suit. Loved it! Read it a long time ago when I was 13 or 14, but now reading it at 21, it was even better!
    • 2/5
      A friend recommend this book, I wish she hadn't. The character was unbelievable. The plots were contrived. If you are looking for realistic fiction, maybe you should go elsewhere.
    • 5/5
      Hilarious!
    • 5/5
      Delightful!
    • 4/5
      Very funny!
    • 4/5
      The first-half of the book I'd give three stars...since I've seen the movie, I couldn't really get into her obsession with Daniel because I knew that he turns out to be a jerk. So, the whole time I'm thinking, "Hurry up and get to the Mark Darcy parts!" Once it did, I enjoyed the book at last.
    • 5/5
      This is fluff on the outside, but a marvel of construction on the inside. Plus I enjoyed the movie so it was fun picturing Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth between these pages once again. Others have attempted to imitated, but there is only one Bridget Jones's Diary.

      Petrea Burchard
      Camelot & Vine
    • 2/5
      READ IN DUTCH

      I watched the movie and the sequel because these are the favourite movies of some of my friends. I got interested enough to read the book.



      Romance books isn't a genre in my comfort zone. I've very few experience with it, and don't seem to find books I truly find engaging in this genre. Doesn't mean I don't try it every once in a while.



      I know that a lot of people like Bridget Jones and some went crazy over Mad About The Boy (Pun intended :P ).

      For me, Bridget Jones's Diary wasn't really working for me. I guess the translation I read didn't help because it felt forced like it was trying to bring over the jokes from the English edition and utterly failing to do so.

      Perhaps I didn't really like it because I'd already seen the movies, I'm not sure, but I didn't feel like reading the other books.
    • 4/5
      Similar to the movie plotwise. Easy read, and enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      Bridget Jones's Diary is a guilty pleasure for me. I know it is not high brow literature but it is witty and I can relate as a former spinster. Bridget thinks she is heavy, not pretty enough (for what I'm not sure), smokes and drinks too much, and of course she always says the wrong thing at the wrong time but it just adds to the charm of her character. It is the classic choice of the bad boy who is available when you need a man, Daniel and the good man where the timing never seems to work out, Darcy. Daniel cheats and lies, but while Darcy is far from perfect he does get engaged to a complete bore for about 30 pages he is honest. It's a quick read. I wonder back to it about once a year because nothing can cure a book funk like a quirky romance.
    • 2/5
      The film is better than the book, purely because the actors take a relative turd and make it charming. This book is pretty much "say obvious things that women (and people in general) worry about". Nope.
    • 1/5
      Cannot empathize. Pretty sure I couldn't even when I was closer to her age, but now as someone who could be her mother I wanted to scold her into getting a grip, pulling herself together.
    • 3/5
      An entertaining book about Bridget's search for love in all the wrong places. I laughed and laughed and laughed ... especially the blue soup episode. Clearly this plot is lifted from Pride and Prejudice (we even have Mr Darcy), but it's a fun, quick read. UPDATE: 03Feb14I re-read this for a challenge. Not so entertaining on re-read, but I'm not changing my rating. I guess my older self is less inclined to find Bridget's ineptitude endearing. Still find the blue soup scene hilarious, however.
    • 5/5
      I don't know if I've ever identified more with a fictional character. Bridget Jones is a slightly older, much skinnier, equally eccentric single girl and we're practically the same person. Why did I wait so long to read this gem?! It was love from page one. The diary starts on January 1 and takes readers all the way through the year and all through her exploits, beauty and dieting struggles, dating catastrophes and more. It's zany and hilarious and I can relate on so many levels. Her parents are a little nuts (specifically her mom), her friends are all married or dating, and her coworkers are insufferable (save her super hot boss!), no wonder she drinks so much! A fantastic read, I can't wait to read the rest in the series and to watch all the movies. Why did I wait soo long in my life! Wonderful screwball English comedy!
    • 4/5
      funny and fun. The book was way better than the movie. It was easy however to become frustrated with the main character and yell at the book. You can just see disaster coming and you truly feel for her. I have not read the follow up. I have it on my shelf but no plans to dive back into the mixed up world of Bridget.
    • 2/5
      Well, I didn't enjoy this book as much as I had hoped. This humor didn't do much for me. Perhaps I just can't relate. And I know the format of the book was in dairy format but the incomplete sentences and abbreviations got on my nerves after a while. And basically it was a life story with some romance thrown in. Not really my cup of tea. Checking it off the list and moving on.
    • 5/5
      laugh out loud funny
    • 4/5
      I'm concerned I might actually BE Bridget Jones. Not that there's anything wrong per se with being like Bridget Jones but you can't say that she really has her life together can you? If you've seen the film adaptation of Helen Fielding's The Bridget Jones's Diary then I have no clue why you wouldn't give the book a shot. They really stayed true to form with the film and it's even funnier on page. Bridget is a Singleton who really just wants to find a guy who is less of a f***wit and more of a Mr. Darcy a la Pride and Prejudice. (Sidenote: It amuses me more than I can say that the characters actually talked about the BBC adaptation with Colin Firth and it was this same man playing Mark Darcy in the film adaptation of Bridget Jones's Diary. Yes, I AM easily amused.) The book is written in true diary format and at the header of each day's entry Bridget obsessively calculates weight, alcohol units, cigarettes, calories, lottery tickets, etc. I enjoyed the bawdy humor and the writing style of Fielding very much. If you're looking for a quick read that's sure to make you laugh then I highly recommend this one.