The Devil Wears Prada by lauren weisberger

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 25,2025

Funny, engaging, crazy, sarcastic and a light read. Not a quick one though.

Bernadette Dunne did a fantastic job narrating this one. By far the best voice overs for Mexican, French, American, drunk and all sorts of snob bit**es. She was just wow!

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saurovaki

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 25,2025

This starts out pretty slow and it is very heavy on the details but it failed to impress me. The pacing doesn't really get better throughout the book.

I didn't really care about any of the characters honestly. Parts of it, I really enjoyed and others parts just annoyed me. Writing was okay. I liked the movie better than the book in this case.

3 stars

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Nirax

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 25,2025

Not bad, I suppose—especially interesting when compared to the film adaptation, which I'd seen first.

The movie was no great shakes, really, although the cast did a solid job with what they'd been given. Still, I sought out the book because I felt that, as with most film adaptations, a lot of depth had probably been jettisoned, and rightly so, in the translation to the screen. After all, a novel can tackle a lot more than two hours of screen time can.

Imagine my surprise to find that the movie had more depth than the novel did. One of the most charming and fully-realized characters (relatively speaking, here) in the movie was nothing more than a throwaway gay joke in the book. And whereas there's growth and change among most of the major players in the movie, the novel pays only lip service to "your characters must change by the end of the book," and then only to the protagonist, whose "change" is telegraphed from page 1. The boss, the "devil" of the title, remains exactly the same from beginning to end—possibly intentionally, but I thought the Hollywood treatment of her, though formulaic, was more satisfying.

These things would have cheesed me off more if I hadn't discovered that the whole thing was written by a 22-year-old, because lord knows I never could have written something as impressive as this at that age, so I'm willing to cut a great deal of slack. And the truth is, it is an enjoyable read on a page-to-page basis, even if the whole book isn't altogether satisfying. Empty calories.

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keragamming

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 25,2025

Even though the book's plot events are quite different from the movie's, i enjoyed it very much. The plot is more realistic, in my opinion, and the world of fashion more cruel and difficult compared to the one in the movie. Andy works in an environment that focuses on the image and beauty of a person. Miranda, her boss a such a hateful person, i couldn't stand her while reading the novel. I sympathised with Andrea and her courage showed what a strong person she is after all. An excellent book, i really loved it and simultaneously learnt many things regarding the world of fashion magazines!

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Wanderer6

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 25,2025

The only reason I waste words on this piece of trash is that it holds the distinction of being THE WORST BOOK I EVER READ. The title was held previously (for a good 15 years previously) by "The Bridges of Madison County," and it took some DOING to surpass that awfulness.

I could write for three days about how much I hated this book. I still can't believe I finished it, and the only explanation I have is that it was kind of like not being able to look away from a trainwreck. Actually, "trainwreck" is a compliment to this thing. It assumes that it was, at some point, on track.

Not so. Bleah.

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Dr_Nefaryous

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 25,2025

I think this is the first time I can say I liked the movie better than the book. This is supposed to be skewering the fashion industry but the least likeable character in the whole book was the protagonist. Not only did she come off as whiny, entitled and more of a snob than the snobs she was complaining about, she was quite humorless. One would think the fashion industry would be a gold mine of comical materials but if this book was supposed to entertain the reader, it quite failed. Helen Fielding managed to make me laugh out loud at the absurdities of the celebrity world and the entertainment industry in books like Bridget Jones and Cause Celeb. But Devil Wears Prada had no witty insights. It relied on cliches like the flamboyant or promiscuous gay fashion editor and other cringe inducing moments. The rest of the time, it left me utterly bored. It was a chore to finish it. I really don't understand how this became a record breaking best-seller.

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Jaylikeshamsters

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

April 25,2025

I finally finished this horrific
book!

I picked it because the
movie was awesome and the actors did exceptionally well!! But the book is very much girly and found it as an amateur work!! The narration was very dull and moreover it is very repetitive!! The author was very firm to amass the book with more no. of pages rather than trying to present in a readable way!!

If u watch the movie first, u will definitely find the book very much DISAPPOINTING!!

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