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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
Oh, I have to tell ya.... I thought this would be a "chick book", but it was a rollicking good read.... I enjoyed this book so much, I was raving about it to all my friends waaaay before the movie came out.
Fun. Quite a few laughs. A tad too predictable with too much emphasis on flat characters and obvious metaphors. Should make a good movie.
Update: 4.05.2020: I've downgraded this review to 2 stars simply because after thinking it over the past two years, I prefer the film to the book. That's not usually the case for me, but I found Andy's character to be spoiled, insufferable, entitled, and downright rude. She acted every bit the mean girl that she supposedly despised.
Not only that but the plot was slow. So slow that I found myself skipping pages ahead just to get to the damn point.
I'll take the movie over the book any day, and I'm genuinely pleased with the changes they made in the movie EXCEPT for her boyfriend. As anyone who has seen the movie will know, Nate in the film is a complete douchebag and should have been dumped immediately. However, Andy in the book seems to encompass all of movie-Nate's horrible qualities (along with almost every other movie-version character's horrible qualities), meaning that the book would have been great if she weren't the main character.
Not only that but the plot was slow. So slow that I found myself skipping pages ahead just to get to the damn point.
I'll take the movie over the book any day, and I'm genuinely pleased with the changes they made in the movie EXCEPT for her boyfriend. As anyone who has seen the movie will know, Nate in the film is a complete douchebag and should have been dumped immediately. However, Andy in the book seems to encompass all of movie-Nate's horrible qualities (along with almost every other movie-version character's horrible qualities), meaning that the book would have been great if she weren't the main character.
What a catty work of "fiction" this is! I can't say that I enjoyed it exactly -- the characters were fairly boring and the plot a snooze -- but I read it in record time because the thinly veiled descriptions of the bitchy, evil antics of Weisberger's former boss, Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, are so unbelievable. I swear, if Wintour is really as bad as "Miranda Priestly," it's a wonder she has anyone on staff at all. The things some people will put up with in the name of ambition!
To me the main flaw with this book, aside from the flat characters and dull plot, is that it's hard to sympathize with the supposed heroine. After all, she puts up with being abused over and over again for a year, when most normal people with a spine would've quit after one day.
To me the main flaw with this book, aside from the flat characters and dull plot, is that it's hard to sympathize with the supposed heroine. After all, she puts up with being abused over and over again for a year, when most normal people with a spine would've quit after one day.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The book is way better then the movie. but yet again, are they always?
Far more whiny and negative compared to the movie. One of the rare instances Hollywood improves upon a book.
I actually liked the movie better, which is rare for me