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Does My Bum Look Big in This?

Arabella Weir

Paperback | Pages: 212 pages

Rating: 3.03 | 808 Users | 78 Reviews

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Original Title:	Does My Bum Look Big in This?
ISBN:	034068948X (ISBN13: 9780340689486)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Andy Warner, Jacqueline M. Pane, Carlo Pozzi, Bossy Bowyer

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For once, I'll provide a synopsis, since whoever was supposed to do so obviously did not. So, this book is written diary style, the diary writer being one Jacqueline M. Pane, a woman in her mid-30s with cripplingly low self-esteem. Sounds a lot like Bridget Jones's Diary, I know. And, if I remember correctly, the two have a lot in common, but I haven't read Bridget Jones's Diary in many years so I can't make a better comparison than that. Anyway, I see that a LOT of people who bothered to review Does My Bum Look Big In This? didn't like it very much, or even hated it, and the fact of the matter is ... I get it. But I personally find the complete and utter lack of self-esteem, the paranoia, the cluelessness, all of it, to be very funny! I mean, no one really thinks like this. (Well, I'm sure there are some, but no one I know so I guess I can chuckle at it!) But if people thinks it's so over-the-top it loses its funny, I get it. That's how I feel about John Oliver about 10 minutes in. I won't judge. I also feel the need to admit that there might be a touch of nostalgia somewhere in my four stars. My brother went to London for his 26th birthday and brought back a copy of this book for me. 16-year-old me was so tickled, I read a diary entry every day to my then-best friend over the phone, and we'd crack up over it. (I ultimately wound up loaning that copy to some bum I was friends with in college and never got it back. I bought a replacement copy when I went to London myself, which upset her but she still didn't return it so I don't know why she was mad about it.) I was tickled rereading it because there is some (not much) sexy-type stuff that happens, that may or may not have been over the heads of two high schoolers who hadn't even been kissed yet. :) So, in short, funny haha, definitely keeping.

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Title	:	Does My Bum Look Big in This?
Author	:	Arabella Weir
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 212 pages
Published	:	March 5th 1998 by Distribooks (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Fiction. Romance. Humor. Novels

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Ratings: 3.03 From 808 Users | 78 Reviews

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Although I have read some negative reviews of this book I enjoyed it. Main character Jacqueline Pane is more than a bit neurotic about the size of her bum. She feels that she is too big of a woman to succeed in life and love. The book is told in diary style of her life and all the desperate (and sometimes funny) things she does to try hide the fact that she is a size 12 (or 14 or 16 depending on the store she buys her clothes) living in a size 8 world.

For once, I'll provide a synopsis, since whoever was supposed to do so obviously did not. So, this book is written diary style, the diary writer being one Jacqueline M. Pane, a woman in her mid-30s with cripplingly low self-esteem. Sounds a lot like Bridget Jones's Diary, I know. And, if I remember correctly, the two have a lot in common, but I haven't read Bridget Jones's Diary in many years so I can't make a better comparison than that.Anyway, I see that a LOT of people who bothered to review

I really did not like this book and found it a struggle to finish, not because it was badly written or hard to read but because the main character was so unbelievable, so negative and so paranoid. Written as a diary of a 30-something woman working in an industry where looks are apparantly important (not convinced myself but who knows) the level of negativity, self-critism, delusion and outright paranoia was that high it just felt like one book length stereotype taken to extremes. It was only in

This book was amazing. I was told that throughout the book I would refer to myself and it is true. There were many times where I could not help myself and ended up laughng out loud. Fantastic read.

I picked this book up years ago, because I'm a big fan of 'The Fast Show', even if the 'Does My Bum Look Big in This?' sketches aren't among my favourites. Arabella Weir is a very capable comedian and this shows through in her writing, with several scenes in the book provoking audible snorts. The question, however, is whether a fairly limited premise a protagonist with cripplingly low self esteem can comfortably support an entire novel. For the first hundred or so pages of Does My Bum Look Big

I found that this book was not for me. Jacqueline thought that she was unlovable and everything came down to her weight. I felt it was over done. We all would like to be a bit slimmer, a bit clever or a bit prettier but we learn to get on with life and hope the people except us for what we are and not what we are not.

Review available on my own blog: http://bookbag79.blogspot.nl.In all fairness I will add that the review is based on what I've managed to read of this book, which is about half. And that was quite a feat. Not saying it's a bad book, just saying it wasn't my cup of tea. Curious? Go ahead and read the review over on my blog!