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...dear, oh dear. By the time Bridget has landed in a Thai prison (don't ask) more than halfway through Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Viking; 338 pages; $24.95), the reader is beyond caring. Hapless is one thing--as the tremendous popularity of Bridget Jones's Diary showed, hapless can be endearing. But hapless with no sign of a learning curve, in a sequel that has none of the novelty of the original yet is much longer--now that will try the patience of even a Bridget...
...Bridget Jones's Diary, originally a column by Helen Fielding in Britain's Independent newspaper (and soon to be a movie), was one of the publishing phenomenons of the 1990s. It has sold 4 million copies worldwide to date and been published in 30 countries. A very funny account of the minor woes and epiphanies of a 30-ish single woman living in London, it spawned a host of pale imitations and a humorless debate about Bridget's supposedly debilitating effect on the progress of women. (My two cents: Fielding is a wonderful comic novelist who obviously struck some vein...
...Bridget A. Sinnott...
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...Bridget Jones...