The Devil Wears Prada
by Lauren Weisberger
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recommends it for: people who are easily amused and don't care about good writing.
Read in May, 2008
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My mom. Big surprise.recommends it for: people who are easily amused and don't care about good writing.
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Read in August, 2006
God have mercy, I finally finished this horrific book! Honestly, it wasn't so bad, just tedious and repetitive. I picked it because (a) the movie was coming out and (b) I recognized the title as a popular book, albeit a couple years ago. The premise to the book is that a young woman takes a Junior Assistant position at a high-fashion magazine and the She-Devil who runs the show. The movie had the same premise, but that's practically where the similarities end.
Andrea Sachs takes ...more
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I finished The Devil Wear Prada last night. I had some trouble getting into the book, those first descriptions of Andrea's adventures before joining the magazine were really not that interesting to me. After she enters the magazine world I became more interested in her relationship with everyone else. Meaning I'm not that into fashion so some people might actually appreciate the fashion angle in this book more than me.
Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "...more
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Read in January, 2008
Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada
2006, Anchor
432 pages
Book bought in: Moab, Utah – USA
In this review, the book has not been compared to the movie; I wanted to review the book in itself.
As a horribly unfashionable person myself (at least, that’s what I believe, as Prada does nothing for me and I can’t for the life of me walk in heels, oh, and I like my hips), picking up The Devil Wears Prada with all of its fashion stereotypes meant indulging in a guilty pleasu...more
The Devil Wears Prada
2006, Anchor
432 pages
Book bought in: Moab, Utah – USA
In this review, the book has not been compared to the movie; I wanted to review the book in itself.
As a horribly unfashionable person myself (at least, that’s what I believe, as Prada does nothing for me and I can’t for the life of me walk in heels, oh, and I like my hips), picking up The Devil Wears Prada with all of its fashion stereotypes meant indulging in a guilty pleasu...more
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Read in October, 2007
A woman came up to me while I was reading this book and said, "Oh, how is that book? I've been meaning to read it." I answered, "Um, well, it's kind of fun." She raised her eyebrows at me. "I see." I added, "I wouldn't pay full price for it. I got it on sale for, like, a dollar." She nodded as she began to walk away, "Okay, I know what you're saying."
I can explain more if you still feel like reading this book. Honestly, I won't stop y...more
I can explain more if you still feel like reading this book. Honestly, I won't stop y...more
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So I finally saw this movie, and I thought I'd share the experience with my goodreads friends, who I'm sure are dying to hear from me!
Basically, I will add my opinion to that of countless other goodreads reviewers -- this story worked much better as a movie than as a book. When I read the book, it felt like "The Nanny Diaries" but with a more superficial premise/setting. The movie, however, conveyed some things that the book either couldn't, or didn't, get across (at least, from ...more
Basically, I will add my opinion to that of countless other goodreads reviewers -- this story worked much better as a movie than as a book. When I read the book, it felt like "The Nanny Diaries" but with a more superficial premise/setting. The movie, however, conveyed some things that the book either couldn't, or didn't, get across (at least, from ...more
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This is one of the only books I have ever read in my entire life where the film actually improved my perception. It took me about three years to read this, and the only reason I ever finished it was because everyone else seemed to think it was so great, I thought I must be missing something.
I am generally bothered by books and films wherein the main character is offered an incredible opportunity, but because they are worried they are sacrificing themselves, they toss it out the window. (I ...more
I am generally bothered by books and films wherein the main character is offered an incredible opportunity, but because they are worried they are sacrificing themselves, they toss it out the window. (I ...more
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This debut novel sat on the New York Times bestseller list for months, and was turned into an Academy Award-nominated film. I did the non-bookworm thing: I saw the movie first. When I finally picked up the book, I was both delighted and irritated. I was delighted that Andrea had a more complicated personal life in the book than in the movie. Her best friend and roommate, Lily, is a promiscuous, alcoholic graduate student and her boyfriend, Alex, is an idealistic elementary school teacher. She lo...more
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Read in January, 2008
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Fans of gossip novels, and maybe some fashionistas.
More and more often I find myself saying that the movie was, in fact, better than the book. This is one such case. I was not so much disappointed as I was bored ... I couldn't help comparing the book and movie (which I saw first) and, maybe just because it was in that order, the book fell flat. It's maybe better suited for on-screen, not paper. I loved Meryl Streep as Miranda ... she was believable and therefore even more supremely evil, whereas in the book that character is mostly just ridiculo...more
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Read in June, 2007
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 t...more
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 t...more
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Read in June, 2004
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people working their way up to fine literature from STAR magazine
I picked this up because it was in the guest room at my aunt's beach house and it seemed like good "summer is here, I just finished finals, don't make me think" reading. I think I read it in about 3 hours, and I couldn't remember a single thing that happened to the main character once I was done.
In fact, if they hadn't come out with the movie (which I'm a big fan of, by the way), the book would have probably disappeared from my radar forever.
Nothing really happened in t...more
In fact, if they hadn't come out with the movie (which I'm a big fan of, by the way), the book would have probably disappeared from my radar forever.
Nothing really happened in t...more
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Read in January, 2008
Where to start with this one! Seldom have I ever read a book that actually made my blood boil with rage, but this did it! I can, unfortunately, relate to the utter misery that Andy faces while at Runway, while my own clearly does not amount to her cataclysmic year of agony.
Having seen the movie well over 20 times, I found the book to be very little like the movie in most regards. The book is far more depressing, but far more real, and thus far more enjoyable. If you've never read this bo...more
Having seen the movie well over 20 times, I found the book to be very little like the movie in most regards. The book is far more depressing, but far more real, and thus far more enjoyable. If you've never read this bo...more
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Read in February, 2007
I thought Andy, the main character in the book, was much more sympathetic than her character in the movie. In the book, Andy is much more about "sticking it to the man" (expensing $10 for $6 taxi rides, picking up Starbucks for all the bums on the block on her way back from the morning run), and her best friend figures much more heavily. (This is something that I've noticed in the Harry Potter movies vs. books, too, that the secondary characters are given much shorter shrift in the mov...more
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Andrea Sachs, a recent college grad yearning to work for The New Yorker, accepts a job as personal assistant to the editor in chief of the ever successful fashion magazine Runway. (For those of you who missed it, the author worked as personal assistant to chief editor at Vogue). She soon discovers, however, that she is completely at the mercy of her boss-from-hell 24/7.
The story was amusing to begin with, parts of it were laugh-out-loud funny, but as the book drags on, it simply begins to r...more
The story was amusing to begin with, parts of it were laugh-out-loud funny, but as the book drags on, it simply begins to r...more
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Read in March, 2008
The Devil Wears Prada is one of those books that were meant to be good but somehow didn’t make it. The style is almost lively; the characters are almost believable; the dialogues are almost funny. The story of the country mouse being wiser than the town mouse is none the worse for being one of the “seven original plots”. What, then, is missing?
A quick summary. Andy is a small-town American girl who dreams of writing for the New Yorker. In the meantime, she lands “the job a millio...more
A quick summary. Andy is a small-town American girl who dreams of writing for the New Yorker. In the meantime, she lands “the job a millio...more
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Read in July, 2008
Andy Sachs just graduated from Brown and her dream job is to write for The New Yorker. What she lands instead is an assistant position for Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway magazine. The job is total hell - Andy is at Miranda's beck and call 14 hours a day for urgent queries such as "Find me that restaurant review I read yesterday" or "Get copies of the newest Harry Potter book for my two daughters the day before they're released". But Andy is assured that if s...more
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