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Title: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding ISBN: 0140298479 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't say what...say pardon.
Comment: This book is by far the best I've read in a very long time, and in my opinion is much better than it's prequel "Bridget Jones' diary". After seeing the film starring Rene' Zellwager and the particularly wonderful Colin Firth, I decided that to check out the book would only be fair as it is well known that it is very often better before it is shaped for the big screen. Rather than conforming to everyone else's opinion that this was also true of this novel, I preffered the film. However, after borrowing the "Edge of reason" from a very close friend who demanded that I have it back in her hands within 12 hours I was finally allowed to take it home with me. I found that I couldn't put it down for one moment, and was highly annoyed when my mother called me down for dinner. Other than that one interruption, I read the entire thing from cover to cover and it only took me 8 hours to do so. Of course this took me through to around 3:00am but what the hey? It was worth it. I especially liked the interview between Bridget and Colin Firth...I don't think I have ever laughed so much at a book in my life. Bridget is definately the girl of today, and with some of the things that she came out with in this book I just know that there is a little bit of her in all of us. Absolutely brilliant, and the funniest book I've ever been lucky enough to read. Of course it did help being able to picture Colin Firth in the role of Bridget's boyfriend Mark Darcy...if only!!!
Rating: 3
Summary: Readable
Comment: I'm one of those readers that finish things to the bitter end. It's telling that the first time I read The Edge of Reason, I chucked it. I was so disgusted with Bridget's psychotic ramblings on her thighs. As sweet and hilarious as she can be, it made me wonder just how stupid she could be. The first fifty pages of Edge of Reason answered that question far too well (really, can you fully love a character who doesn't know where Germany is?). While its longer length delighted me at first, once I began the book, I couldn't wait for the end of the year.
It's probably worth 3.5 stars and isn't a complete waste. I re-attempted the book a year later and didn't find Bridget's neuroses nearly so annoying, although some of the events Helen Fielding conjures up are so far from the realm of realism, that it didn't feel quite like I was getting to know Bridget. The diary format worked so well in the original, but the sequel lacks the narrative structure and insights of BJD (probably since Fielding borrowed so heavily (but creatively) from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice for the first Diary). This one is modeled after Persuasion, also by Austen, but it's done in a haphazard, careless way that only begins to dawn on you in the middle of the novel.
What makes this one fun is a familiarity with the ever exasperatingly adorable Bridget, the deliciously befuddled Mark Darcy, and the usual cast of side characters - all tinged with British humor. It's better as a stand-alone because you can't help but be disappointed if you follow up the prequel with The Edge of Reason. Good beach or plane reading, but no need to run out to the store for this one.
Rating: 5
Summary: Laugh out loud funny!
Comment: I hesitated to get this book because a male friend of mine who liked the first book thought that Bridget was a little too whiney in this one...well, to each his own. I read it in two days (with a lot of interuptions from family) and suffered several what-is-wrong-with-you looks from my husband and kids as I snorted and laughed outloud my way through it.
A memorable highlight is the interview Bridget conducts with Colin Firth. I found myself exclaiming aloud, "Oh no she didn't!" several times (yikes)then laughing so hard I had to put the book down in order to regroup. Luckily, my husband would miss me if he had me institutionalized.
My friend Mary and I, both mothers of little ones, especially enjoyed the telephone conversations Bridget has with her married friend who continually talks to her children while talking to Bridget at the same time.I don't have the book right here in front of me but the dialogues run alot like this: "Bridget, you really need to...sit on the potty, Mummy says sit on the potty!"
Should you read the book? I guess the best analogy would be the Austin Powers sequals. In the second and third movies, Austin stays Austin with only the adventure changing--the humor remaining the same. In the second installment of Bridget Jones, Bridget stays Bridget with pretty much the adventure changing and the humor staying the same. Some people liked the first Austin Powers movie but didn't want to see more of the same thing...I could watch a new Austin Powers movie every year as long as the jokes keep flying. The same goes for Bridget Jones. Does she change and grow--becoming a more 'complete' woman? Well, while she probably does learn the danger of taking packages from strangers while on holiday the answer to that question is no, not really. But just as I wouldn't want to see Austin Powers 'change and grow', 'no really baby', I have to say thank goodness for savy writers who know how to not mess up a good thing.
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Title: Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding ISBN: 014028009X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 24 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Bridget Jones's Guide to Life by Helen Fielding ISBN: 0142000213 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 11 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding ISBN: 0142000221 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella ISBN: 0385335482 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title:Bridget Jones's Diary ASIN: B00003CXT7 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $14.99 |
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