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Bridget Jones's Diary (Film Tie-in)

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Bridget Jones's Diary (Film Tie-in)

Helen Fielding

書籍情報

出版社
Picador
発売日
2001-03-23
ページ数
320ページ
言語
英語
サイズ
11.1 x 2.1 x 17.8 cm
ISBN-13
9780330375252
ISBN-10
9780330375252
価格
497 JPY
カテゴリ
洋書/Literature & Fiction/Genre Fiction/Movie Tie-Ins

The multi-million copy number one bestseller has been turned into an Academy Award-nominated film. A dazzlingly urban satire on modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Bridget Jones is everyone's favourite spinster. In Bridget Jones's Diary she documents her struggles through the social minefield of her thirties and tries to weigh up the eternal question: Daniel Cleaver of Mark Darcy? She is supported through the whole process by four indispensable friends, Shazzer, Jude, Tom and a bottle of Chardonnay. Welcome to Bridget's first diary: mercilessly funny, endlessly touching and utterly addictive. Bridget Jones's Diary was first published in 1996 and applauded by critics from Salman Rushdie to Jilly Cooper. A number one best-seller, Helen Fielding's book has sold over fifteen million copies worldwide and has been turned into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant. Bridget Jones's Diary is followed by Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Helen Fielding was born in Yorkshire. She worked for many years in London as a newspaper and TV journalist, travelling as wildly and as often as possible to Africa, India and Central America. She is the author of Cause Celeb (1994), Bridget Jones's Diary (1996), Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2000), Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination (2003), and Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2013). She co-wrote the screenplays for the movies of Bridget Jones's Diary and The Edge of Reason, starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, and Bridget Jones's Baby also starring Patrick Dempsey. She now works full-time as a novelist and screenwriter and lives in London and Los Angeles.

レビュー

  • 参考に

    英文日記をつけているのですが、とても 参考になりました。 I から始まる日記などほとんどなく、 新鮮で今の口語体英語が耳に飛び込んでくるような 感じでした。 ブリジットの気持ちもうまく現れていて読んでいて 楽しかったですよ。

  • very funny

    I have watched the movie many times since I like it very much and I can tell the book is also very interesting. It shows the most embarrassing situations almost every girl/woman has already experienced in a very funny way.

  • 大好きな本です

    彼の母親にクリスマスプレゼントでこのCDをもらいました。もらう前から、大好きな映画だったので内容はしっていまいした。けれども、やはりReadingも必要と本を購入しました。 映画・CDとは違う、追加されている内容があり、とても楽しく読むことができました。

  • It’s a good book

    I respect the fact that it was written in 1996 so always keep that in mind when reading it. There are some really good and funny moments but there are sections that felt unnecessary and drawn out. I feel like because I’ve watched the movie so many times it has impacted my judgement. If I hadn’t watched the movie first I may have had a different opinion.

  • これはPenguin版ペーパーバックのレビューです

    イギリス英語はどちらかというと苦手なのだが、この本はその点は全くの取り越し苦労だった。平易な英語で書かれていて、しかも抜群におかしくて、何度も声をたてて笑ってしまった。 この小説の中で揶揄されているヒュー・グラントがよく映画版に出演したな、と思ったらさすがに自分がおちょくられているシーンは見事に映画版から割愛されていた。残念。 ただ、読み終わるまでずっと頭を離れなかった言葉がある。物語が始まってすぐのところに、「あの残酷な日本民族」という、なかなか日本人には辛らつな一言があった。 Apparently he had the most terrible time with his wife. Japanese. Very cruel race. (本書11頁から引用) 太平洋戦争時に英国軍捕虜に対して相当むごいことをした日本軍に対して今もってこんなユーモア小説の一節にまで恨みの言葉が綴られてしまうとは。少々暗澹たる思いにかられた。

  • 英語の練習

    英語脳を作るとかいう本で、英語を1日2-3時間同じものを聞くといいとのことで購入。 なかなか映画の音声CDがなくて困りました。 リアルスピードの練習にもってこいだと思います。

  • ちょっと惨めな日常を明るく楽しく生きるシングルトン

    ブリジットは30代、未婚でちょっと太め、恋人はなし。 「どちらかというと悲惨な」日常をユーモアいっぱいに つきぬけて生活しています。 そんなブリジットの周囲には個性豊かなキャラクターが いっぱい。さまざまな日常の「事件」をおこしていきます。 果たしてブリジットの恋の行方は・・・? かなりキワドイ本音もいっぱい、当時のイギリスの流行もの もいっぱいで、笑って楽しめる一冊です。 続編はもちろん、J.オースティンの「高慢と偏見 (Pride and Prejudice)」も合わせて見ると登場人物の モデルや相関関係が分かってより楽しめます。

  • ブリジットファンになりました

    Helen Fieldingが「高慢と偏見」をヒントに書いた現代版小説、ときいたので読んでみたら、違う意味でとてもおもしろく途中でやめられなくなりました。普通の英国の女の子の日常生活が手に取るようにわかるのが楽しいうえあらゆるところで笑わせてもらいました。テンポがよく意外な展開もあり息をつくひまを与えません。「高慢と偏見」「嵐ヶ丘」などの文学作品やTV番組、雑誌や食べ物など、英国のことを知って読むと楽しさ倍増間違えなしです♪

  • Not at all like the movie (in a good way)

    I loved watching the movie version of this book, and I enjoyed how the characters were varied, but recognisable. The book, however, is far more raunchy, and goes into a really dark place towards the end. There are scenes I can recall from the movie showing up in the book (or vice versa really), and by and large the general thrust of the story still follows pretty closely. However, there are details that you can't quite show in the movie that show up in the book that fill in the blanks. The movie presents Bridget and Daniel's initial relationship as a whirlwind romance, whereas in the book, it paints a much sadder picture. Bridget clearly wants /something/ out of it, and Daniel is interested in either a hook up, or watching TV. He can barely hold a conversation with Bridget, and the guy has all the romance of a teenage boy. It makes their relationship all the more depressing, but also fleshes it out way more clearly when we figure out that Daniel's been with that other woman all along. It makes more /sense/ for that Daniel to do what he did. Same goes for Mark. In the movie, it seems like all of a sudden there's this switch that flips, where Mark and Bridget are into each other. In the book, you see that cat and mouse game carry through, which makes their eventual getting together make way more sense. It's a series of they tried to get together, but either circumstances, Natasha, or International embezzlement and fraud would get in the way of that magic happening. It wasn't some snooty prince come down off his high horse to fraternise with the commoners. It was more of a slow burn that had been building throughout the story, with a much more satisfying conclusion. If you like the movie (or even if you didn't like the movie), definitely give the book a read. It's very enjoyable.

  • The book is brilliant

    The book is absolutely brilliant and funny

  • Buy it.

    I really hope you haven’t seen the movie, because it’s awful compared to the book. I read this when I was about 18 and laughed myself half to death. Oh my god, I just realized that I was 18 half my life ago... anyway, awesome read, especially if you have a great sense of humour. If you have a bad sense of humour, then maybe just go watch SNL instead?

  • DIVERTIDO

    Me encanta Bridget, super divertida y alocada apenas tengo tiempo para disfrutar de un buen libro y los audiolibros son la mejor opción los escucho en el coche o en casa, así puedo seguir disfrutando de lo que mas me gusta mientras mejoro el idioma llegó antes de tiempo y en perfectas condiciones lo recomiendo

  • Super Funny book

    This was my second book to improve my English, although it has a lot of vocabulary and phrasal verbs I enjoyed it, it has been one of the funniest book that I have read it

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