I hate say this but I hate this book , can be much better if Helen fielding just wrote bridge Jones's diary and stop

Not as fresh and quotable as the first Bridget Jones book, but still a lot of fun. More entertaining if you're familiar with Persuasion, since her references (callbacks?) to it are hilarious. Too sleepy to type more. Read this book if you like funny.

The Colin Firth interview is hilarious! You just want to scream at Bridget to shut up and stop putting her foot in every time she opens her mouth! Just as wonderful as the first book!

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Bridget Jones #2), Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 1999 novel by Helen Fielding, a sequel to her popular Bridget Jones's Diary.

It chronicles Bridget Jones's adventures after she begins to suspect that her boyfriend, Mark Darcy, is falling for a rich young solicitor who works in the same firm as him, a woman called Rebecca.

The comic novel follows the characteristic ups and downs of the self-proclaimed singleton's first real relationship in several years.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز پانزدهم ماه سپتامبر سال 2005 میلادی

عنوان: برژیت جونز: مرز برهان (لبه ی منطق یا همان نکته باریک) - کتاب دوم از سری برژیت جونز؛ نویسنده: هلن فیلدینگ؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان انگلیسی سده - 20م

برژیت می‌کوشد، در جامعه جا بیفتد، و گلیمش را از آب بیرون بکشد، و در این راه از یاری گروهی از دوستان خویش، و یکی دو خانواده ی سنتی، در شهر محل زندگی‌ خویش، بهره می‌گیرد؛ زمان رخدادها، دهه ی 1990میلادی است. پیروزی این داستانها و اشراف بانو «هلن فیلدینگ» نگارنده ی سری داستانها بر مسایل بارکتر از مو، و حس جامعه شناسی تند و تیز ایشان، سبب شد، زنان بسیاری به دنبال کردن داستانهای جونز، اشتیاق نشان بدهند، و با ایشان همذات پنداری کنند، و بویژه وابستگی زنان، به نشریات زنانه، و خط و ایده‌ هایی که نشریات به زندگی زنان در غرب می‌دهند، در این داستانها مورد داوری قرار می‌گرفت، و نگاه نقادانه ی: «فیلدینگ»، به مسایلی از آن دست؛ نوشته ی «جونز» را، به چیزی بیش از یک اثر هنری، و حتی فراتر از یک رُمان پرفروش، تبدیل کرد، و از آن، یک پدیده ی ماندگار اجتماعی ساخت؛ «فیلدینگ» کتاب نخست «بریجیت(بریژیت) جونز» را، که همان گردآوری پاورقی‌های چاپ شده، در روزنامه «ایندپدنت» بود، در سال 1996میلادی منتشر کردند، و پاره ی دوم آن را، با عنوان جنبی و کامل کننده ی: «لبه منطق یا همان نکته باریک»، که همین کتاب باشد را در سال 1999میلادی، روانه بازار نمودند، و در ادامه نیز کتاب سوم «بچه بریجت جونز» را نوشتند

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 07/04/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Love the movie, didn't like the book :(

This shall be short and sweet since it just continues on from the first. One of the issues I mentioned previously (love triangle) evaporated. The other issue (far-fetched plot) is still present so I knocked a star off for it. I have the next one in the series waiting on my nightstand so I am hoping this last little issue disappears.

STILL LOVE ME SOME MARK DARCY!

I enjoyed Edge of Reason a bit more than the original. I think it had a little more depth (and I use that term veeery loosely) than the first Bridget Jones book. She grows a tiny bit as a character, and finally seems to come to terms with what it means to be an adult in love. Again, she grows a tiny bit...we're not talking about any huge spiritual epiphany here. This is, after all, Bridget Jones we're talking about.
As a big fan of the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice, I also found myself smiling quite a bit at the references to the movie...and the whole connection to Colin Firth in general. *sigh* I'm a little Bridget-ish about him, too.

Nobody puts Bridget in the corner!

„{...} meilė žmogaus neištinka, meilę žmogus turi pats užsitarnauti“.

Iš tikro, labai sunku vertinti serijos dalis. Jeigu vertinčiau dalį kaip atskirą knygą, nepriklausomą nuo kitų istorijų, tai tikriausiai vertinimas nelabai skirtųsi nuo pirmosios dalies žvaigždučių skaičiaus (tyliai nuėjau į savo įvertinimų istoriją ir pažiūrėjau, kad tų žvaigždučių buvo viso labo dvi...). Vis dėlto, jeigu lyginčiau dalis tarpusavyje, kaip tai padariau šiuo atveju, tai su tokia ironijos šypsenėle pridėjau vieną papildomą žvaigždutę (gal kitos dalys užsitarnaus dar po vieną žvaigždutę).

Bet nuo pradžių. Istorijos pradžia yra identiška visai pirmajai daliai, išskyrus tai, kad veiksmas vyksta Bridžitai jau turint porą, rimtą porą, rimtus santykius. Manyčiau, kad istorijos mintis - labai sunku patikėti, kad kitas žmogus tau gali jausti tikrus jausmus, kai esi tiek kartų nusivylęs. Tikriausiai iš to nepasitikėjimo ir kyla daugiausiai problemų, istorijos vingių vingelių, o iš šių - ir visi linksmi nuotykiai.

Nepameluosiu pasakydama, kad kai kada (per daug dažnai) Bridžita buvo panaši į visiškai kvailą, erzinančią personą. Nežinau, kiek kartų skaitydama net negalėjau iš pykčio jos kvailumui ramiai kvėpuot. Lygiai taip pat kažkas tikriausiai iš jos kvailumo juokėsi. Gaila, kad man toks ironizavimas buvo dažniau graudus nei kėlė šypseną. Vieną kartą netgi kilo mintis, kad knyga turėjo vadintis ne "Ties riba", bet "Gerokai už ribos".

Vis dėlto, ši dalis vis tiek nusipelnė tos vienos žvaigždutės didesnio įvertinimo. Ir viskas tik dėl tos kelionės į Tailandą. Va nuo šios dalies netgi aš suskydau ir keliolika kartų nusišypsojau, o kelis kartus ir garsiai nusijuokiau. Bridita Džouns pralaužė mano ledus.

Bet labai labai trumpai, apie ką ši knyga. Bridžita Džouns - moteris, kuri lyg ir turi savyje optimizmo gyslelę, bet visada tyliai kamputyje sau pripažįsta, kad lyg ir yra per sena, lyg ir per stora, gal ir su draugais per daug išgeria, o gal ir rūkyt nebereiktų. Bet žinot, moralas toks - pastebėkim aplinką ir pastebėkim mus supančius žmones. Bridžitą žmonės ir myli tik dėl to, kad ji yra reali, kad kartais vėluoja, kad kartais nusišneka, kad meta visus darbus ir bėga padėti draugams, kad kartais elgiasi kvailai ir ne visada telpa į S dydžio drabužius. Jeigu ji būtų kitokia, ji nebūtų Bridžita.

Taigi, mylėkim save tokius, kokie esam. Nes būtent tokius mus myli kiti.

Although Bridget Jones is still a fun and delightfully unpredictable character in this second instalment of Helen Fielding's series, there is simply too much presented, featured exaggeration and resulting disbelief for me to be able to totally and utterly (without reservations) enjoy The Edge of Reason. For while with the first book, with Bridget Jones's Diary, although Bridget often was indeed outrageous and even at times (and perhaps even rather regularly) inappropriate, she was still and usually engaged in antics that could easily and even normally happen (events, personal behaviours to which I could at least mildly and personally relate), whereas, at least for me, the majority of the scenarios presented, featured in The Edge of Reason, but especially the entire Thailand episode, simply feel a bit too strange, too over-the-top, interesting enough perhaps, but also somewhat alienating.

And thus, while definitely still for the most part an enjoyable and entertainingly light romp, with The Edge of Reason, I sometimes and perhaps even more than sometimes do tend to feel more like a dispassionate and even analysing (coldly critical) observer and monitor of Bridget, while with the first book, with Bridget Jones's Diary, I very much and often felt like I was Bridget (or at least that I could be Bridget), actually experiencing her frustrations, her dietary faux pax, her searches for the perfect man (and I just cannot seem dispense with my personal sense of disbelief with much of the action featured and presented in The Edge of Reason, simply because much of it is so far beyond my own personal experiences that it feels strange, even at times rather majorly disconcerting and disconnecting).

But all that being said and my issues with reality and exaggeration notwithstanding, The Edge of Reason does remain for me a generally enjoyable read and as such one which I do still heartily recommend for fans of Bridget Jones' Diary (but with the caveat that it is certainly nowhere near as good and as entertaining as the first book, and the additional personal warning to absolutely NOT bother with the second movie instalment, as it veers so far beyond the plot of the novel to be simply massively annoying and majorly frustrating).

After finishing Bridget Jones's Diary for the second time, I turned my attention to Bridge Jones: The Edge of Reason, by Helen Fielding, which I'd never read before. I have to say that with both books, there were definitely laugh-out-loud moments, although there were more with Edge of Reason than Diary.

I'm embarrassed to admit it took me at least to the middle of the book to realize that this book was a take-off of Persuasion. And once again, I admire Ms. Fielding's facility in translating a classic to the modern age. Before I picked up this book, I wondered, idly, "Pride and Prejudice ended with a marriage. What on earth is Helen Fielding going to do in her sequal?" I assumed it would be one more of those books written by Jane Austen devotees who cannot stand not knowing what happens next, where Elizabeth and Darcy, happily married, turn detective, or where Elizabeth, happily married, works on getting Georgiana married off. Turning to Persuasion for inspiration was felicitous.

In Persuasion, Anne Elliott and Captain Wentworth loved each other in their youth (fully ten years ago), but were driven apart by the machinations and bad advice of Anne's family. At the end of the book, happily, they have reconciled and their love is as strong as ever. In Edge of Reason, Bridget and Mark have been together for a full four weeks before they are driven apart by a series of misunderstandings, the machinations of vicious Rebecca (an exceedingly well-drawn character), and the bad advice (at least, in Mark's opinion) that Bridget has gleaned from the self-help books that comprise her library. Well done, Ms. Fielding -- I think that's a wonderful way to begin a sequal and also an inspired retelling of a classic.

This book was great fun and brought me great joy reading it. I think Ms. Fielding's satirical pen has sharpened somewhat.

As I've mentioned, I'm relistening to the Bridget Jones books because the new one is out and I'll be reading/listening to it soon; I feel I need to brush up on what happened ten billion years ago.

So.
Bridget.
I never liked this story as well as the first one, though time has mellowed my viewpoint a bit. I remember thinking that there is no way that much could happen to one person in the course of one year and not have more of an effect. I mean, hello! She got her boyfriend, she met Colin Firth, she hung out with her mother's African...um...what was he? Guest. We'll call him a guest. Because "pet" is demeaning. She got arrested coming home from Thailand, she got to experience The Fantasy that all people go through when someone breaks up with them (the whole crawling back/turns out he was pathetic thing) and she's still a flake after ALL THAT?
But looking back, I have had lots of adventures, some scary moments, plus big events and small and if I were really honest with myself? I can't say I've grown much, either. I might be a little wiser but I think that comes more from winding down toward a sedentary lifestyle and less from learning things, meaning I'm too lazy to fight or care anymore and don't do as many crazy things as a result. So maybe her year wouldn't have changed me, either, despite what I'd self-righteously believed the first time I read this story.

Still. I liked the first book better.