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Summary: Think twice before you buy it !!!
Review: The flamboyant title, The Devil Wears Prada, is the first novel by Lauren Weisberger. This book draws resemblance to her previous job as an assistant to Vogue magazine's editor. Set in a high fashion environment in New York City, the story revolves around Andrea Sachs who is a recent college graduate and dreams to write for The New Yorker. She contracts dysentery while on her trip to Delhi with her boyfriend, Alex where she loses twenty pounds and makes her already lean frame an ideal candidate for a job in the fashion magazine world. Andrea lands a job as a junior assistant to Miranda Priestly at the Runway magazine, "a job that millions of girls would die for". This starts Andrea's struggles with her life and career. Before she realizes it, Andrea is thrown into a world, which she hardly knew existed. Andrea finds herself in a workplace that shouts "Prada! Armani! Versace!"at every turn. Though Andrea has no inclination to the fashion world, she takes up this job believing that Miranda's recommendation will fetch her a job at the New Yorker after a year of service. She finds herself surrounded by people wearing the trendiest and the most expensive clothes. Her boss Miranda expects her employees to work fourteen hours a day and most weekends. As her assistant, she lived under the terror of her boss and was expected to do miniscule jobs such as wrapping Christmas gifts or serving her coffee at the piping hot temperature that she prefers. Her infamous boss, Miranda is impolite, mean, insensitive, and has no room for human errors whatsoever. Andrea's job gets so demanding that it strains her relationship with her boyfriend, friends and family. She is faced with a tough decision to choose between serving the devil or her people. The Devil Wears Prada is a humorous, entertaining and lighthearted book to read. For someone who is interested in fashion, the book is a good treat to the eyes. It is not a classic novel with character maturization, but a simple story without much substance. It is not for an intellectual reader since the readers learn the lesson way before Andrea does. Andrea's character is very interesting and easy to relate. Though the author did a good job of portraying the characters of Andrea and Miranda, after a while the monotony in the daily activities makes the book seem like a torture. My final thoughts on this book - it is not worth the hefty price.
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Summary: Lots of Fun
Review: This book might fall under the "chick Lit" category, but I really liked it because of the story itself. Anyone whose ever had a difficult boss to deal with will enjoy her trials and tribulations with her job. It will probably make your own job seem not as bad. This was one of those books where you are excited to reach the end, but then sad at the same time that it's over. I really hope the author continues to write novels - I will be there to buy them right away (even in hardcover!)
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Summary: Bridget Jones 10 years on
Review: This is a great book--I found it hard to put down, and it's the perfect companion for all those recent college grads slogging through their morning commutes (or perhaps their jobs). But ultimately Weisberger offers little original here; she just plays a series of riffs that she knows will sell plenty of copies. If you like Madonna better than Britney Spears, you'll like Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' Diary better than The Devil Wears Prada. Fielding employs many of the same rhetorical techniques as Weisberger--using lots of brand names and silly hyperbole to conjure vivid images--but her writing also doubles as social criticism, something that Weisberger's agent presumably advised against.
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