Saw the movie, now have read the book

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	• The Devil Wears Prada Lauren Weisberger Anchor, 2006 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 1017 reviews view larger image
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Top Read!

This was a great book and far better than the movie - had details and storyline that were not replicated in the film, and I loved this book. Read it all in one sitting and it had me hooked from the first page. I have since read this authors other books, and enjoyed them all very much.

Fun Chick Lit

I'm also talking about the audio version of the Devil Wears Prada which makes the story come alive. It's entertaining and welcomes the reader into the inside world of fashion.

Light and funny. And if you like the movie, I suggest reading the novel and get to know more about the characters.

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Good book, maybe slightly over-blown

This is a good book, but what fascinates me most is that it has the most even distribution of reviews on any book I've seen on Amazon. 1, star, 2 star, etc. all get about the same votes. Take a look. You don't see it so even like that very often.

This is a book that is really not for everyone. Being into fashion helps, and the author walks a wobbly line between glorifying the fashion industry and critiquing it.

At any rate, it's a few notches above the movie, so if you enjoyed that, you would most likely find this book a fun and easy read.

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I did not like the ending

Like most other reviewers here, I feel the cartoon-like characters lack depth. The editor/ boss character is a wicked queen to the protagonist's Snow White. The parts about Andrea's love life were uninteresting and flat. By making Andrea completely anti fashion and a junk food junkie, the author seeks to make her likable to what she perceives as the average run of the mill person. But, the book is filled with so many fashion label names; I know the author is not ignorant of fashion. It would be impossible for Andrea to illustrate all these fashion details in her first person narrative. I am sure many fashion fans liked the book for this reason.
Miranda Priestly is a very vain and shallow person, but I almost felt sorry for her, when she was stuck in the rain. I did not Andrea's big emotional outburst at the end was cathartic. If Andrea had gone this far, she should have stuck it out to the end. The of the lame soap opera plot twist "someone's in a coma", destroyed what would have been a four star review and brought the book down to three stars. I expected Miranda Priestly to give Andrea the time off, after praising her is the limo, so the ending came out of left field. Miranda is portrayed as a shockingly wasteful person, throwing out many untouched meals each day, and ordering complete wardrobes of clothes and discarding them. Because Miranda never slept and ate all a lot without gaining weight, I also wondered if it would revealed that she had sold her soul to the devil. The character Miranda is based on the editor of Vogue. I looked her up on Wikipedia, and I noted that she was in bed by 10:15 each night and ate a strict Atkins Diet. She did look like a size zero in the photos. When she took over Vogue in the mid 80's she made the magazine much less accessible.
The Devil Wears Prada was kind of enjoyable to pass the time, but the ending was a big disappointment. There is much room out there in the world for untalented writers who would never make it into the New Yorker, considering the success of this book. I have heard a TV show is also in the works based on The Devil Wears Prada.

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Saw the movie, now have read the book

After having seen the movie about 100 times, (don't know why I liked it so much!!)I decided to read the book. I think the movie left me wanting MORE. I have to agree with one of the reviewers previously, when they stated that the ficticious book was mostly about the author. The nastiness regarding her boss, Miranda, was too far and few between for me, esp. since in a world such as hers I'm sure there was plenty to write about. I really would have enjoyed reading more about how Miranda was such a witch of a boss, and all the dirt and gossip, of which there probably was plenty. All in all, it took me 2 days to read, and left me wanting more nastiness from her boss. The Devil Wears Prada

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A delightfully dishy novel about the all-time most impossible boss in the history of impossible bosses.

Andrea Sachs, a small-town girl fresh out of college, lands the job ?a million 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 turtlenecks 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.

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA gives a rich and hilarious new meaning to complaints about ?The Boss from Hell.? Narrated in Andrea?s smart, refreshingly disarming voice, it traces a deep, dark, devilish view of life at the top only hinted at in gossip columns and over Cosmopolitans at the trendiest cocktail parties. From sending the latest, not-yet-in-stores Harry Potter to Miranda?s children in Paris by private jet, to locating an unnamed antique store where Miranda had at some point admired a vintage dresser, to serving lattes to Miranda at precisely the piping hot temperature she prefers, Andrea is sorely tested each and every day?and often late into the night with orders barked over the phone. She puts up with it all by keeping her eyes on the prize: a recommendation from Miranda that will get Andrea a top job at any magazine of her choosing. As things escalate from the merely unacceptable to the downright outrageous, however, Andrea begins to realize that the job a million girls would die for may just kill her. And even if she survives, she has to decide whether or not the job is worth the price of her soul.

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