1. I recommend you read this book for these two reasons:
After reading, and enjoying Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, I would strongly recommend it. Not only do you learn fun English words and phrases, you get a laugh at the same time. Fielding did an excellent job of incorporating the real life situations and attitudes towards thirty-year-old single women, with an optimistic witty outlook on the future ahead. The protagonist, Bridget Jones, though desperate for a boyfriend is still able to easily mock and make the most out of her single situation. This I found to be inspiring in that though everyone around her had what she wanted, yet she was, however, the merriest character in the book. Also, in complete honesty, her situations made me feel much more content in my life, and thus made me strive to be a more joyful person. This book, not only achieves the reader to be smiling the whole way through, it also presents an alternative, more delightful approach to our everyday roadblocks. The language in this book, though harder to comprehend, offered a challenge, and differentiated the book from others, together creating a novel difficult to lay aside. The combination of Fielding’s writing style with the protagonist’s wonderful personality and sense of humor was a perfect match. Bridget Jone’s Diary was not only inspiring and funny, but motivated me into putting a greater, more positive look on things.
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2. I recommend you don't read this book for these two reasons:
Though enjoying the novel myself, Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding is overall confusing and only appealing to a specific group of people. Previously having seen the movie was purely the reason I could properly understand the plot and thoughts of protagonist, Bridget Jones. The constant use of awkwardly arranged phrases prevented the reader from a continuous read, and instead enforced the reader to pause and re-read until the mere sentence was understood. If it hadn’t been for the movie, I would have a complete misunderstanding for the characters and the plot as well. A glossary or possibly simpler language would have made the novel much less alien, and much more enjoyable as well. Alongside the language in the novel, not a wide variety of people would have enjoyed it, for example, most males. I assume most men would feel extremely uncomfortable reading this novel, or extremely frustrated at the occasional cheesy chick flick moment. Even being a girl I found the ending to be too expected and unoriginal. This book, though great for girls in their teenage years presents language that the average girl would not understand, therefore leaving a very precise range of people who would enjoy this book without having the movie as a guide.
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1. I recommend you read this book for these two reasons:
After reading, and enjoying Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, I would strongly recommend it. Not only do you learn fun English words and phrases, you get a laugh at the same time. Fielding did an excellent job of incorporating the real life situations and attitudes towards thirty-year-old single women, with an optimistic witty outlook on the future ahead. The protagonist, Bridget Jones, though desperate for a boyfriend is still able to easily mock and make the most out of her single situation. This I found to be inspiring in that though everyone around her had what she wanted, yet she was, however, the merriest character in the book. Also, in complete honesty, her situations made me feel much more content in my life, and thus made me strive to be a more joyful person. This book, not only achieves the reader to be smiling the whole way through, it also presents an alternative, more delightful approach to our everyday roadblocks. The language in this book, though harder to comprehend, offered a challenge, and differentiated the book from others, together creating a novel difficult to lay aside. The combination of Fielding’s writing style with the protagonist’s wonderful personality and sense of humor was a perfect match. Bridget Jone’s Diary was not only inspiring and funny, but motivated me into putting a greater, more positive look on things.
and just to make it more interesting...
2. I recommend you don't read this book for these two reasons:
Though enjoying the novel myself, Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding is overall confusing and only appealing to a specific group of people. Previously having seen the movie was purely the reason I could properly understand the plot and thoughts of protagonist, Bridget Jones. The constant use of awkwardly arranged phrases prevented the reader from a continuous read, and instead enforced the reader to pause and re-read until the mere sentence was understood. If it hadn’t been for the movie, I would have a complete misunderstanding for the characters and the plot as well. A glossary or possibly simpler language would have made the novel much less alien, and much more enjoyable as well. Alongside the language in the novel, not a wide variety of people would have enjoyed it, for example, most males. I assume most men would feel extremely uncomfortable reading this novel, or extremely frustrated at the occasional cheesy chick flick moment. Even being a girl I found the ending to be too expected and unoriginal. This book, though great for girls in their teenage years presents language that the average girl would not understand, therefore leaving a very precise range of people who would enjoy this book without having the movie as a guide.
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