Bridget Jones is back! In The Edge of Reason Bridget discovers what it’s like when you have the man of your dreams actually living in your flat . . .
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7:15 am Hurrah! The wilderness years are over. For four weeks and five days now have been in functional relationship with adult male thereby proving am not love pariah as previously feared.So begins The Edge of Reason, Bridget Jones' hilarious foray into the not-so-sexy realities of relationships, the laughable legions of self-help theories and a television career that would have her model "tiny shorts next to a blow-up of Fergie in gym wear". Picking up where Bridget Jones' Diary left off, everyone's favourite singleton has finally landed her love, Mark Darcy. However, she's finding--among other things--that her dreamboat is less than ideal. Aside from never doing the washing up or foraging through the isles at Tesco, Mark, it seems, has taken an interest in the viperous "jellyfish" Rebecca, who has "thighs like a baby giraffe" and a penchant for boyfriend snatching.
If that isn't enough, Richard "I'm thinking bunny girl! I'm thinking Gladiator! I'm thinking canvassing MP!" Finch, Bridget's smarmy, cocaine-encrusted boss and Executive Producer of Sit Up, wants her to be the show's clown, in effect making her the arse of television. What's more, a builder who has an obsession for large, slimy fish seems to have forgotten about the hole he knocked out in her flat, putting her entire life on display for the neighbours. Not to mention a mother who wants her to go to see Ms. Saigon with a Kikuya tribesman hijacked from Kenya.
Never fear, Bridge's singleton posse--Shazzer, Jude and Tom--are always a phone call away and armed with bottles of Chardonnay, packs of Silk Cut, pizza and a cornucopia of self-help literature. Whether they're decoding acronyms in singles ads (GSOH and WLTM? "Giant sore on head. Willy, limp, thin mollusc."), developing the ground-breaking "Pashima theory" or dolling out unsolicited advice, the FOBs (friends of Bridget) make up most of the comedy.
Although The Edge of Reason is filled with signature B.J. manoeuvres, such as drunken Christmas card writing and wearing an unruly rubber girdle, it's a departure from the original. Throughout most of its 422 pages the plot clips at a steady rate, then, much like Bridget's train of thought, the ending skitters, careens and breaks off into two incoherent tracks--one more absurd than the other. The outcome is a metamorphosed Bridget, one more reminiscent of a British Alley McBeal than the personification of England's everywoman. --Rebekah Warren
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The Wilderness Years are over. But not for long. At the end of Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. Now, in The Edge of Reason, she discovers what it is like when you have the man of your dreams actually in your flat and he hasn’t done the washing-up, not just the whole of this week, but ever. Lurching through a morass of self-help-book theories and mad advice from Jude and Shazzer, struggling with a boyfriend-stealing ex-friend with thighs like a baby giraffe, an 8ft hole in the living-room wall, a mother obsessed with boiled-egg peelers, and a builder obsessed with large reservoir fish, Bridget embarks on a spiritual epiphany, which takes her from the cappuccino queries of Notting Hill to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of . . . Bridget is back. V.g. ‘If you loved Bridget Jones’s Diary, you’ll love this; there is no diminution of the freshness or fun, or of Fielding’s underlying intelligence. Success has not spoiled her – she has simply gained in confidence and aplomb . . . Fielding has a seam here she can mine endlessly until she herself gets bored, which I dare say will be long before her readers do’ Mail on Sunday ‘Funnier and more accomplished than the original diary, and in fact takes recognition humour into a new dimension . . . A glorious read, and there is a laugh on every page’ Sunday Times ‘Helen Fielding has created the most enchanting heroine for the millennium’ Jilly Cooper
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
I normally don't read sequels as when there's a happy ending in the first book I prefer to just leave it there than picking up the second part but I'd heard so much about this book that in the end I had to read it out of curiosity.
Though many of the people I had spoken to about this book thought that it wasn't as good as the original I totally disagree. I love this book even more than the diary!!
I just had to find out what happened between Bridget and Mark Darcy. The only disappointment was that Bridget's best friend Tom doesn't seem to appear as much as I'd liked.
I loved the way that Mark Darcy is based not only on Colin Firth but characters he has played in the past, not only Mr Darcy but Paul Ashworth in Fever Pitch. This was great as it gave Mark Darcy more character and wasn't just a copy of Jane Austen's Darcy.
I laughed more and I cried during the Persuasion chapter and cared more for Bridget than I did in the first book.
But I must thank Helen Fielding because she has introduced me to Jane Austen who I'd never considered reading before. I'm very grateful thank you!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
I had just arrived in London to visit my parents and was browsing through a WHSmith when I discovered a huge display of "The Edge of Reason". Because I live in America 99.9% of the year, I wasn't up on my Bridget Jones news to know that there was a sequel. Helen Fielding proved a good sequel does exist. I loved Bridget all over again and this time, I especially loved her girlfriends. Especially the male-bashing but secretely male-needy Shaz. (Doesn't everyone have a friend like her?!) I loved all the great references to possitive self-talk borrowed from a cheaper form of therapy known as "self-help books". I must admit that I was standing in the middle of the great dining hall of Harrod's reading Bridget's brilliant journalistic debut interview and laughing outloud. "The Edge of Reason" will take you from plot to plot laughing and amazed. Bridget has one wild year ahead and this is one wildly funny book. If you loved the first book, you will love the sequel. Thank you BJ for giving women a new voice of insanity!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Hardcover
This is a classic case of the Emperor's New Clothes - whisper who dare that this book is just NOT funny. In fact, as so many reviews have pointed out, it is dismally UNfunny. Yes - I do'get it' - not that there is much to get. But the humour is so unsubtle, the quality of the writing and the jokes SO poor, that I am left genuinely wondering how on earth such trivial stuff can be so popular. I am 33 and do not know anyone of my age who still counts calories - we're all too busy, and have grown out of it. This is something I did in my teens and twenties - and I think this is the crux of the problem - this book just does NOT speak for our generation - how could it when Fielding herself is well into her forties and has clearly forgotten what it is like to be a thirty-something? The 'humour' is very conceited because BJ is constantly telling us that she did really 'funny' things like putting Mac eyeshadow on her cheeks instead of blusher (really sidesplitting - I think not) and then her friends all, obligingly, tell her how 'sweet' and 'funny' she is when she just ISN'T - surely laughter has to be earned. As for Bridget herself, I didn't find her, as I was clearly 'meant' to, 'sweet' and 'adorable' and 'whacky' - I found her sleazy, hard, dreary and above all, just NOT funny - I kept wishing that the painfully stereotyped Darcy would go off with Rebecca who is MUCH more his type - and probably a lot more fun to be with than the sad, non-U and, worst of all, utterly non-funny Bridget.
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Hilarious
This is one of my favourite "light-hearted" books to read. Lots of laughs and easy to get through. A good holiday book.
Published 20 days ago by Amy
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Love these books
Love the books and love the films. Lighthearted and funny. Don't you just wish you were Bridget. You can disappear into her world.
Published 28 days ago by Mrs B Shaw
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A nice light read
A good read if you just want something light and entertaining but a bit probably funnier if you haven't seen the film.
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More banality about Bridge Jones. I really wouldn't bother.
Purchased this for a bit of 'easy reading' and hadn't expected anything too challenging.
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Good job. Read more
Published 1 month ago by mimday
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Contrived and shallow
Not for me at all. The characters may be "modern" but they did not seem believable to me at all. I found the writing jerky and trite. Just the wrong book for me. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Helen Mullineaux
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Better than the film
This was very enjoyable and a great read. Much better than the film and would recommend to all. It is a great pick me up if you are feeling a little low
Published 2 months ago by Sally-Anne Marie Nicholls
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Excellent buy
Dispatched and arrived quickly. Packaged well. Item matched description perfectly. Very good and amusing read - brilliant and hilarious wit from author.
Published 2 months ago by Chloe Stewart
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a diary
I couldnt read this book as it was written in the form of a diary and was very hard to follow, maybe it is aimed at a younger reader but I gave up after a few pages
Published 2 months ago by Brenda Roberts
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Great stuff - very funny!
Very funny with down to earth humour which any member of the fairer sex would enjoy whether a singleton or a smug married. Easy enjoyable read.
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. D. A. Bremner
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Reading it for the second time
This book made me laugh just as much on the second read - can't put it down! Very funny and readable
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