Entertaining the Alien

42. Bridget Jones' Diary, Helen Fielding

I'm how many years late reading this book? I admit, parts of it were quite humorous, but I couldn't get over how amazingly self-destructive the heroine is--I couldn't get over it enough for it to be funny. And there's the whole "she gets her man in the end because he found all of her flaws irresistably quirky" crap that irked me. It reminded me a great deal of Good in Bed, complete with unexpected crisis at the end. (I realize, of course, that Good in Bed came afterwards and was a Bridget Jones clone.) Don't get me wrong, I did actually enjoy reading this book. So much so that I read it all in one day. It just irritates me that I enjoyed it, I guess. More guilty pleasures. I guess part of it was me going, "Wow, at least I'm not THAT screwed up about being 30 and single..."