The Devil Wears Prada

Reader Response to The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger

Back cover reads:

"Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job "a milion girls would die for." Hired as the assistant to Miranda Priestly, the high-profile, fabulously successful editor of Runway magazine, Andrea finds herself in an office that shouts Prada! Armani! Versace! at every turn, a world populated by impossibly thin, heart-wrenchingly stylish women and beautiful men clad in fine-ribbed turtlenexks and tight leather pants that show off their lifelong dedication to the gym. With breathtaking ease, Miranda can turn each and every one of these hip sophisticates into a scared, whimpering child."

My Rxn:

Crap. The main character is flat. There's nothing but bitching throughout the entire book. True, it is effective bitching, and you really feel for the character, but I was sorely disappointed. After about 342 pages of non-stop 19-year-old-whining, you'd expect a spectacular climax in which our heroine really blows her boss out of the water.

Alas. There is none to be found. What does our heroine do after approximately 11 months of being daily serenaded by her hell-siren-of-a-boss' demanding song? she throws her an F-BOMB. Her actions subsequently lead to her termination, and she moves back to her previous surroundings, only to find a job at runway's competitor. Coincidentally, the editor happens to loathe our protagonist's former boss.

see all those big words that i just used? you won't find them in this book.

COME ON. a freaking F-BOMB?

in the words of Adam Sandler: "WHOOPIDEEDOO!"

I don't think i'm wrong in assuming that most people, if they had only one month to go, would have just put up and shutup. If i was in that kind of situation, i wouldn't have put up with it for more than a week. I didn't feel sorry for our protagonist at all after that point. From then on, it was a chore to keep reading.

enough said. my fingers are tired of typing.

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