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This has the feel of a movie that exists exclusively because its predecessor was a financial success. Sadly, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason isnt anywhere close to being that good. A number-one bestseller by Helen Fielding, it is, alongside Bridget Jones's Diary, a modern classic and one of the funniest books you'll ever read. Bridget Jones Diary was an unexpected delight: a witty, enjoyable trifle that touched the heart while tickling the funny bone. Diary entry: recapping another year in the life of Bridget Jones. īridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is Bridget at her best: funny, wise, and, as ever, a little bit sloshed. Surely it will be the perfect place to set her life on course once and for all.
And so Bridget decides to embark on a spiritual epiphany to the palm- and magic-mushroom-kissed shores of Thailand. But things aren't perfect: there's an eight-foot hole in the wall of her flat, she's increasingly worried about a certain boyfriend-stealing beauty, and her friends' mad advice is getting her nowhere - something has to change. She is no longer a smoker (well, not much), the wilderness years are over, and she is at last united with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. I've watched the movie a dozen times but never read the book so to be able to actually picture the characters as I read - her loopy friends, her crazy Mum and. This book had me both laughing out loud and cringing at the situations Bridget gets herself into. At the end of Bridget Joness Diary, Bridget hiccuped off into the sunset with man-of-her-dreams Mark Darcy. The sequel to 2001s Bridget Joness Diary (from Helen Fieldings sequel to her own novel) picks up about where the original left off, with the slightly. With an introduction by journalist Hadley Freemanĩst 2, cigarettes smoked in front of Mark 0 (v.g.), cigarettes smoked in secret 7, cigarettes not smoked 47 (v.g.).īridget's second diary ushers in a reformed woman. Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is the second book of the Bridget Jones Diary series.