The Devil Wears Prada book-review.

[many_miles_away]

So! I just finished reading The Devil Wears Prada.

I'm still a little fuzzy as to why I got so addicted to a book that I never actually enjoyed.

Comments

[clappamungus]

I've neither read the book nor watched the movie. Eva saw the movie with her mum and thought it was crap, but that doesn't surprise me as Eva likes weird movies.

I'm going to play Devil's Advocate here. If you'd read the book first, would you have thought the same

[many_miles_away]

True enough, maybe the satire would have appeared more obvious to me had I read the book first. I'm still not sure whether it is satirical or not, though. I like satire, and I would have very much enjoyed feeling that she was encouraging us to mock her, but I never felt like she was, you know? Maybe it's because it was her first book and one can't expect to hit all the right notes on their first try, or maybe it's because she wrote it without much thought to the absurdity of her character. Any which way, it read like a tedious complaint, which it obviously shouldn't have if it had been well crafted satire.

About the movie, it's also obvious that Hollywood dumped all the negativism because they can't stand (and don't believe in) movies that aren't optimistic and peppy, which it definitely would have never have been had they stuck to the book.