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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
I love this book. I have a hard time finding books about girls fresh out of college, looking for jobs and enjoying city life without it being cheesy or predictable. But this book was smartly written, the characters were well-drawn and very relatable.
Okay this book was lowkey racist, also I can’t help but wonder if the author had quit her sole actual ‘real’ job abruptly since it happens if all the books of hers that I have read (all two of them).
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.
I honestly have to say this is one instant where the movie is better than the book.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book may have rated higher stars back when it was published and relevant; however, it is not so outdated to almost be distracting. For instance, a "big deal" in the storyline is when the main character obtains a cell phone. The plot line is nearly nonexistent and doesn't actually pick-up until the last 50 pages; otherwise, the story drags on. If you are really interested in high fashion and the insights and ramblings of a (very) immature young 20-something, then give this book an opportunity. If not, move on to something more relevant.
[As a sidenote, I also just finished "Anybody Out There? (Walsh Family #4)" by Marian Keyes who must have read this book (Keyes was published one year later) because the two books are depressingly similar in pace, plot-line and character choices.]
[As a sidenote, I also just finished "Anybody Out There? (Walsh Family #4)" by Marian Keyes who must have read this book (Keyes was published one year later) because the two books are depressingly similar in pace, plot-line and character choices.]
I think I had to read this for my class on Chick Lit. Le sigh. I kinda hate the moniker "chick lit." Here's the thing, though, anything that women like will eventually be denigrated. Call it what you want, but if it centers a woman character, is about storylines that are important to women, and/or is read by women, someone's going to have a problem with it.
This book is interesting precisely because it looks at women's relationships.
Perhaps my most enduring memory will, however, be from the movie when Emily Blunt says she's only one stomach virus away from her goal weight.
This book is interesting precisely because it looks at women's relationships.
Perhaps my most enduring memory will, however, be from the movie when Emily Blunt says she's only one stomach virus away from her goal weight.
Well that was a very different from the film. In a good way.
What a great book!!!!! Read it in 3 days cause of mommy duties but it was well worth the read. Started reading it cause of my yahoo groups, they kept saying how awesome it was, and boy were they right! Andrea is so like me it isnt funny. I thought some of my bosses were bad, they are nothing like Miranda lol. I dont know how she put up with all that for so long, and went through so much trouble at home because of it. Great book cant wait to see the movie :)