To be pissed off with Bridget Jones?

[MrsDeadfield]

Rereading books 1 & 2 before mad about the boy, haven't read them for years, she is insinuated as fat in he films and books but she veers between 9st 3 and 8st 7! Know they were written a few years ago but still!

Read about three pages of the first one. It's so terrible. Like she suddenly remembers Bridget does the note to self stuff and drops it in. All of it is so last decade: nits, rice cakes, names, yawn.

I agree with Justbecause. It didn't work for me - the voice just doesn't ring true. Shame.

I remember reading it first time round, a mildly amusing column in the Independent. I'd probably find it annoying now though .

I did see the Bridget Jones film, but didn't like it. Zenee Whateverhernameis just went around like a hair-brained idiot looking constantly surprised.

I read the first one, cover to cover, on the 6th January 1998 at Milan airport waiting for a connection. It was so right at the time. I was getting drunk, and being irresponsible, and "tumbling over" and crying over unsuitable men.

Book 2 was OK, but too much of the same, with too much unbelievable stuff going on....the Thailand thing for example.

Then I fell out with Bridget because of all the really really awful chicklit that was spawned as a result.

I didn't even know this one was in the pipeline till my friend told me about it, so I d/l it last week.

The films were just Hollywooded shite really, weren't they? I still can't understand why RZ was ever chosen. (though the BJ films aren't as utterly dreadful as the TV versions of Marian Keyes I suppose.)

I agree that MD wouldn't have been interested.

She didn't seem to have an ounce of sense or self respect!

The new book is ok, nothing out of the ordinary though, sadly.

Don't like the new book.
Other people's twitter convos - dull.
Other people's childcare issues - not my idea of entertainment.
Really, if I'm that embarrassing and clueless at 51, feel free to shoot me.

If she is only 5 foot then a weight of 9 stone gives her a BMI of 24.6. At 9 stone 3 she Is technically overweight.

I'd've interested to know how tall Helen Fielding is.

I read another 75 pages last night.

It's just all mixed up. One minute it's the usual "yummy-slummy-mummy isn't poo hilarious" chicklit (funny perhaps the first time you read it, but 238,048 versions of it later, oh per-lease), the next it's wearing thigh boots and picking men up in clubs. (at 50 odd? Wouldn't she just have been laughed out of the place? Her and her saddo mates?)

I'm 17% in on the kindle and it is appalling. She slips into thirty something Bridget all the time. None of it adds up, at 51 she would not be like this over twitter, it would be Facebook and mumsnet if at all and the Mark thing - really? Love of her life dies and she gets forced to shag around by her mates?

Do you notice how when she is 8st 7 her friends all ask her if she is ill?

That is the POINT. We are inside her head. SHE thinks she is fat, but she is not.

The weight that Renee Zellweger reached for the film has been reported as anything between 9st7 and 11st0. Nobody will say. I expect it is closer to the former.

Exactly! Yes, the dead Mark thing is just weird. (and I was no Mark Darcy/Lardarse Colin Firth fan)

Agree with all about 3rd book. It's dull. Ending is okayyyy though. Don't like the fact she's now rich (celebrity nit nurse??!) and sees her screenplay writing as a bit of a joke and not something her livelihood depends on!

The first 2 books were dull and gave me nothing to identify with.
The 3rd one is an obvious attempt to cash in on the previous two success.

Yes - meh and double-meh.

And it's really lame. I'm back at the dinner party scene. Conveniently mark is dead and Bridget is surrounded by smug marrieds.

Again.

And now mum and una are planning christmas! That never happened in the previous books. Wonder how hilarious that will be.

The rehashing of the old jokes.....the lumpy gravy. Pffft.

And now Daniel cleaver asking the colour of her pants. Mummy pants. Like we are being reminded of how funny this once was. Remember this joke? Please?

I can't keep reading this. It's like a terrible thing I can't stay away from. Daniele cleaver has just turned up to babysit for her and dead marks children and said '...I supposes fucks out of the question.' How hilarious.

And she is 51? With a child in infants? But mark has been dead five years? So how old is Mabel?
Am guessing mabel is six and was one when mark died. So 45 at last child? Ok that makes sense. Phew.

Nerf, I am at exactly the same place as you!

I am at that point too in the book just because and Nerf but gosh it is hard work, I loved the first book, liked the second, quite enjoyed the films at the time although have seen them since and not quite as good as I remembered, the second was a bit unrealistic but this book? a bit meh, mildly amusing at times but I find it hard to imagine her as 51 a lot of her shenanigans seem unlikely at this age (no offence to 51 year olds living the high life) it would have sat better if she had been younger I think but realise fitting all this in would have been impossible given her age in book one. for the record I loved Renee zellwegger in the role, she was a very believable Bridgit to me.

Bily was 2yo and Mabel was 3mo so I put them at 7yo and 5yo.

Agree wholeheartedly with the 'meh'. I ploughed through it over the space of two nights and must have muttered "what the fuck?!" at least 7647 times.

Book two ended happily enough, why couldn't HF just leave it there?