Bridget Jones. The Edge of Reason [Import] [Hardcover]

Helen. Fielding (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1999

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Fielding, Helen

Product Details

• Hardcover: 422 pages
• Publisher: PIcador.; First Edition edition (1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 033036734X
• ISBN-13: 978-0330367349
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (474 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,528,518 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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95 of 103 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Saturday, April 22, April 22, 2000

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Jennifer Elizabeth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason (Hardcover)

130 lbs. (gaah!), alcohol units 7 (entranced by book, and therefore not accountable for actions), cigarettes 0 (hurrah!), calories 1500 (v.g.), no. of times found self mooning over Colin Firth 42 (tragic)

11 a.m. Traveling with Mum from New York to Virginia and in desperate need of entertainment. Must busy self. Idleness only leaves time to contemplate terrifying slide into obesity (Why? Why?). Search plastic bag quickly tearing itself into shreds for relief (blurry wimpy plastic), found Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and began to read. Refreshing change from self-help books, as actually might help.

Noon Stopped for gas. Laughing hysterically now (v.g. as laughing burns calories) and wondering at the comic genius of Helen Fie--Gaaaaah! Was Mum getting back into car. Would recommend to everyone (Reading book, not getting back into car).

3 p.m. Feel very comfortable with self after reading about Bridget Jones. Life can't possibly be as bad (v.g.). Not better or worse than the first, simply a well written continuation. Hurrah for Helen Fielding! Bridge's travel misadventures might be pushing it a little, but the further connection to Austen is bloody marvelous, this one paralelling Persuasion. The old Bridge is back!

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More Words of Hope from the British Ally McBeal, February 28, 2000

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Janice Davis "travelin' mom" (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason (Hardcover)

When handed the original Bridget Jones Diary by a friend a year or so ago, I found myself enjoying it but certainly not classifying it as Great Literature. It took a year or so of thinking back on it (when repeatedly finding myself in situations similar to those in the book), and the release of the sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, to make me realize just how cleverly drawn the characters are. A NYTimes book review last weekend noted that we can enjoy Bridget even though this book reveals that she is "not very bright", but I believe it's not dullness but fallibility that makes me, and apparently millions of other women, relate to her; Helen Fielding apparently striking the same chord as David Kelley did when he came up with Ally McBeal and friends. With Bridget, we get the added benefit of happy endings, which is always what one wants for a character one is relating to! This book is marvellous fun (and of course a terrific lift for all "Singletons" who have been recent victims of "emotional f--kwittage"), and felt like a fun-filled reunion with the characters who two years ago (I now realize)became life-long friends!

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Sequel That Delivers, February 29, 2000

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U2 Tassoula (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bridget Jones : The Edge of Reason (Hardcover)

Helen Fielding has done it again! With all of the brilliance and comic genius she displayed in Bridget Jones's Diary, this second book Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, is just as much of a wild ride as the first. It is true the character of Bridget speaks primarily to single women, but there is no doubt any reader could enjoy the silly escapades that result from this thirtysomething simply living her life and taking advice from her 'singleton' friends. Frequent references to current events and trends in England and America make this diary easy to believe as non-fiction, although of course it is not. Getting lost in it's spider-web of events is only half the fun - when nearing the end, you will want it to slow down, as to preserve your need for more. Another highlight in this volume is the character of her mother taking a back-burner role, and letting the real star shine along with her friends and boyfriends alike. Read this book, laugh out loud, and be challenged to find at least one way Bridget doesn't remind you of someone you know. Perhaps even yourself!