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  <title><![CDATA[Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination]]></title>
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  <default_description>With the irrepressible Bridget Jones, bestselling author Helen Fielding created an unforgettable one-of-a-kind female character beloved by millions the world over. Now, Fielding gives us a sensational new heroine for a new era. From the white heat of Miami to the implants of L.A., from the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the scorching deserts of Arabia, journalist-turned-master-spy Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of terror armed with her own pocket survival kit, her Rules for Living, her infamous overactive imagination, and a very special underwire bra. Join Olivia in her heart-stopping, hilarious, nerve-frazzling quest from hip hotel to ecolodge to underwater cave, by light aircraft, speedboat, helicopter, and horse, in this witty, contemporary, and utterly unputdownable novel.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[The end of my three-book-long failed experiment in getting into chick lit.  What an utter load of tripe:  the story of a slim, beautiful, plucky and slim upstart English journalist who roams the world trailing along drooling hotel bellboys and sniffing out suspicious activity that eventually leads h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/321246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Try very hard not to compare to Bridget Jones because that one was just in a world by itself (I love laughing until I cry and it's one of VERY FEW that were successfully told on screen - Renee Zellwegger is perfect for that part!).  <br/><br/>Okay, back to OJATOA (that title's too long to write!)....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10921984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually want to give this book three and a half stars.  I picked it up because I  really enjoyed the two Bridget Jones books (there some of the only books I've read that actually made me laugh out loud), and this is by the same author. Similar to the Bridget books, it's funny in an absurd kind of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24625346">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Damn. I never had so much fun without moving an inch. Bloody brilliant.<br/><br/>Helen Fielding is finally back with a brand new heroine - Olivia Joules. Olivia is instantly likeable: down-to-earth, smart, self-made, and armed and ready to go with her own set of insecurities.<br/><br/>As the title s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48794080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71670866">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Olivia AND Fielding both indeed have 'overactive' imaginations--which would be a great thing in and of itself if only both Olivia's and Fielding's voices were funny and compelling enough for the reader to believe in such imaginations which, without a doubt, this reader does not.<br/><br/>Granted, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71670866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45459422">
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Critics uniformly admire Fielding's wit; reviews for <em>Olivia Joules</em> acknowledge that her punch lines uncoil with deft precision and real insight. Some praise her for branching out of the more standard chick-lit genre she helped launch with Bridget Jones to create the kicky, modern spy-girl, Olivia (o...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459422">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Usually reading Brit chick lit results in eye clawing and mental shrieking. What can I say the phrases used and the regurgitated spunky yet clueless inner monologues irk the depths of my soul. I didn’t have those issues with Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination. So pigs must be flying in h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54415614">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="712288">
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    <body><![CDATA[I was drawn to this book since I loved Bridget Jones, adore South Beach, and have been accused of having an overactive imgination, but I was sorely disappointed. I found it over-the-top and silly.  It completely lacked the absurdity-meets-reality of the Bridget Jones books.<br/><br/>It made me won...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/712288">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49370419">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one over Christmas break. It's like a cross between Bridget Jones's Diary and Ian Fleming. I'm serious. Olivia is almost as nervous and self-conscious as Bridget, but she also figures out how to navigate an international spy situation. The mix is odd, but it does make a great backdrop fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49370419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I was desperate for entertainment on the long commute and picked up the audio book of this from my neighborhood library. Sadly, I would rather endure road rage than listen to this drivel. It was that bad. Really.]]></body>
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    <review id="365956">
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Bridget Jones' Diary so I found the author's latest book thoroughly disappointing. I didn't connect with the characters, her adventures were ludicrous and silly and frankly, I wanted to slap her. Bah.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awful. I didn't really enjoy Bridget Jones' Diary, but I could see what it was trying to do to be funny, and that it might thoroughly work for some people. This one... I guess there are attempts at humour there about celebrity culture, but it's hard to tell because so much of the designer-name-dropp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42005262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This month's Book Club choice was &quot;Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination&quot; by Helen Fielding. I went to the library to pick it up this past Monday, and since there was a lineup at the counter I ended up browsing and choosing two other books. I am so incredibly glad I did, because the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67090474">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56090313">
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute. The book says its like Bridget Jones mixed with James Bond but I think that’s off. You need a more far fetched, humorous action hero like Indiana Jones to compare it to. Just like Bridget Jones, Olivia Joules is charming in a plucky, witty way, but Olivia is much more independent and strong ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56090313">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember reading a snarky review of this when it first came out, and I see that the average rating here at Goodreads isn’t all that high. Maybe those who dislike it are comparing it unfavourably with <em>Bridget Jones’s Diary</em>, which I know is very popular. I still haven’t read <em>Bridget</em>, and I tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72331567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34989807">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 20 08:40:22 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I liked about this book is that it was a surprise.  I don't understand why some readers berated this book for not being Bridget Jones' Diary.  It was written by the same author who obviously wanted to write about something else for a change.  I also enjoyed it because I've always had a secret d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34989807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Title: Olivia Joules and the overactive imagination<br/>Author: Helen Fielding<br/>Copyright date: 2003<br/>Publisher: Viking<br/>How many pages: 306 pgs<br/>How long it took me to read: 5 days<br/>Category: Fiction<br/>I learned about this book from: being a big Helen Fielding fan<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24925337">more...</a>]]></body>
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