<![CDATA[The Devil Wears Prada]]>

false <![CDATA[The Devil Wears Prada]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1244130027m/5139.jpg 5139 55 It's a killer title: The Devil Wears Prada. And it's killer material: author Lauren Weisberger did a stint as assistant to Anna Wintour, the all-powerful editor of Vogue magazine. Now she's written a book, and this is its theme: narrator Andrea Sachs goes to work for Miranda Priestly, the all-powerful editor of Runway magazine. Turns out Miranda is quite the bossyboots. That's pretty much the extent of the novel, but it's plenty. Miranda's behavior is so insanely over-the-top that it's a gas to see what she'll do next, and to try to guess which incidents were culled from the real-life antics of the woman who's been called Anna "Nuclear" Wintour. For instance, when Miranda goes to Paris for the collections, Andrea receives a call back at the New York office (where, incidentally, she's not allowed to leave her desk to eat or go to the bathroom, lest her boss should call). Miranda bellows over the line: "I am standing in the pouring rain on the rue de Rivoli and my driver has vanished. Vanished! Find him immediately!" This kind of thing is delicious fun to read about, though not as well written as its obvious antecedent, The Nanny Diaries. And therein lies the essential problem of the book. Andrea's goal in life is to work for The New Yorker--she's only sticking it out with Miranda for a job recommendation. But author Weisberger is such an inept, ungrammatical writer, you're positively rooting for her fictional alter ego not to get anywhere near The New Yorker. Still, Weisberger has certainly one-upped Me Times Three author Alex Witchel, whose magazine-world novel never gave us the inside dope that was the book's whole raison d' etre. For the most part, The Devil Wears Prada focuses on the outrageous Miranda Priestly, and she's an irresistible spectacle. --Claire Dederer 38765 2002 The Devil Wears Prada total:64718|5:1371|4:1649|3:1850|2:767|1:387| 64718 220116 78619 3425 1 7 false false Sat Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Mon Jan 28 22:14:27 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 22:14:46 -0800 2008 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 A...

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I actually listened to the audiobook version of The Devil Wears Prada on a recent road trip. I hope that counts as "reading" it.

Maybe "gossip fiction" (as the back of the CD case repeatedly called this book) just isn't my thing. I know that chick l...more...]]> 2 8 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 18:02:21 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 18:23:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 3 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 08:30:38 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 08:43:04 -0700 2007
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...more...]]> 1 2 false false Wed Jul 25 20:39:22 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 22:30:12 -0700 2007
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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.

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I was considering giving up and putting the book down a few times during this read- but I figured "it's gotta get bback on track sometime"...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Aug 12 07:35:40 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 07:44:49 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 17:17:13 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 17:22:09 -0800 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5139