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movie was too good,

Aka, there was a huuuuuuuge gulf between the book and the film,

I kept thinking: maybe the beginning was just slow Maybe the middle needed a bit more time

Despite all my deep breaths and meditation, I could not stand this book.


The main character Andrea is so wholly irredeemable that she ruins the book,

Sure, she sacrifices her a few years for Miranda ha! name buddies Priestly but Andrea whines her way through every little task and I lost all sympathy within the first chapter.


Her derision towards anyone who takes their fashion job seriously and her dismissal of everyone who isn't Miranda Priestley really struck a nerve.
You can tell a lot about a person by how they treat their peers,

The way she berated the other girls and acted so above them often showing this by eating the calorieladen soup in front of them just struck my last nerve.


And yes, Miranda is supposed to be the bad character but I liked her so much more than Andrea.


Miranda's only real fault is her high exceptions, Which she clearly spells out for every assistant who applies for her job, Yes, those expectations include enough work for two people, . . BUT all the girls who apply continuously assure her that they can take on the workload,

The absolute worst part The rapey love triangle that almost was:

There's the saintly boyfriend who put up with Andrea's neglect and obsession with this job.
They're practically set to get married after she finishes with Miranda Priestly,

Yet, Andrea constantly pulls away from him and ignores him for no other reason than 'her career is stressful.
' I was so mad that she was deliberately screwing up a good thing,

Enter the Hot Rich Writer Guy who just may be interested in her writing but more likely just wants to screw her.
It had an overall scummy vibe,

Example: Andrea was called in to "babysit" the couple's child at their party, . . which really was HotGuy calling in a favor and forcing her on a date as his "babysitter" for the night,

So this Sleezeball traps her into a conversation on her way out blocking her way out,

He's drunk, beligerant and keeps insisting she wants him:

He was leaning up against the frame with a smugly satisfied expression.
"So little Andi, did I show you a good time tonight "

He slurred just a little bit and it seemed nothing short of adorable at that moment.


"It was alright, I suppose, . . "

"Just alright Sounds to me like you wish I would've taken you upstairs little Andi, All in good time my friend, all in good time "

The way the scene was playing, I wassure we were headed to a rape scene.


The whole chapter gave off an ominous vibe and I honestly thought that was going to be her getting at least assaulted by drunk HotGuy.
He's inebriated, he manipulated the entire evening to force her hand, . . despite her telling him repeatedly that she has boyfriend, She repeatedly says that he's used to getting exactly what he wants, . . was it really that far of a leap

What killed me was despite all that, she finds him charming Are.
You. Kidding. Me. Andrea this is not flirting, Girl. This is a honking huge red flag,

Run,

sitelinkYouTube sitelinkBlog sitelinkInstagram sitelinkTwitter sitelinkFacebook Snapchat mirandareads It's been a long time since I've had a chance to add a new book to my "the movie is better" shelf, so at the very least, I owe The Devil Wears Prada credit for that.


seriously, I could talk to the screenwriter of the movie for literally hours about the process of adapting the book and how she arrived at some of the brilliant choices she made

I can't get over how night and day the two versions are.
To show just one example: the character of Christian, in the book, functions purely as a temptation for Andy, teasing the reader with the threat that she'll cheat

on her boyfriend who, in the book, is so toothachingly perfect that I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop and find out that he's been having an affair the whole time or something.
And she never even sleeps with Christian in the book, so his character is ultimately pointless and should have been cut from the novel entirely.
But in the movie he actually has a function outside of just being the guy Andy might cheat on her boyfriend with the book still has the challenge where Andy has to get a copy of an unpublished Harry Potter book for Miranda, but she just finds some rando at a publishing company to get it for her.
Having Christian be the connection that gets her the book in the movie version was, frankly, a stroke of brilliance and I bet Lauren Weisberger is really mad that she didn't think of that.


The sad truth about The Devil Wears Prada is that it could have functioned perfectly well as an indepth magazine article.
Because ultimately, this novel is attempting to shine a light on the toxic work culture at Vogue, and specifically to show the world that Anna Wintour is straightup abusive to her underlings.
But when the book came out, all of that got lost as people just scrambled to read all the dirt about what it was like working inside the hallowed halls of one of the most influential fashion magazines running today.
There were probably and probably still are plenty of garbage people who considered "Andy" ungrateful, and thought that she should be forced to pay her dues by working a shitty job for a shitty boss.
What people lost sight of including Weisberger herself, because she's mostly concerned about how her job affected her and isn't interested in seeing the bigger picture is that no one should ever have to go through what Andy goes through in this book.


The sad thing is that I don't think Anna Wintour ever faced any significant backlash for how she's portrayed in this book.
If anything, The Devil Wears Prada actually benefited Wintour, because it made her a household name, We would not have The September Issue without The Devil Wears Prada Which, when you think about it, is really fucked up: that Wintour became more famous thanks to a book that portrayed her, in no uncertain terms, as a horrible human being, and there were never any real consequences for all of that ugliness coming to light.
There is almost certainly some girl at Vogue working today who performs all of Andy's former duties, but that person is probably an unpaid intern now.


And how did this all shake out for "Andy", aka Lauren Weisberger, who wanted to write for the New Yorker and scoffed at the idea of Vogue having "literary articles" a skepticism that goes unchallenged in the book, because the screenwriters had to scrape five book characters together in order to create the movie's version of Nigel At the end of the book, Andy publishes a magazine article about a recent college grad who gets hired at a super demanding job, and almost loses herself in the process.
Weisberger tries to lampshade this by having Andy's family joke about how closely this skews to her real life, but it seems to be a pretty accurate estimation of Weisberger's postPrada career.
A quick look at her author page shows that she managed to wring two sequels out of her starmaking novel, and most of her other books seem to follow the same formula of a simple, goodhearted girl who gets swept up in a world of glitz and glamour that she's fully unprepared for.


For better or for worse, Weisberger has built her career off of that one terrible year she spent at Vogue.
Anna Wintour made Weisberger's writing career, and Weisberger gave Wintour widespread fame, They deserve each other. This was ok, I guess, just not really my type of thing, Its definitely an anecdotal, character driven novel, rather than a plot driven one, and there was a lot of detail about things I dont really care about.


I also think I took the opposite message of what the author was trying to convey as I totally disagree with a particular decision that Andy, the MC made, I think she was incredibly stupid at the end because her friends and family were unbelievably unsupportive and ununderstanding thats not a word, is it.
And the author tried to make out like certain things she did were really bad, and I just dont think they were.


But it was amusing in parts and anyone interested in the fashion or magazine industries would really enjoy this.
Personally for me this is one of the extremely rare cases where I thought the movie was better though I havent actually seen it since not long after it came out aboutyears ago, and I wasat the time so maybe its not that great either lol, who knows.
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In Defense of Miranda Priestly
The premise of this novel as most know it is OMG, my boss is a total dragon lady!!!, but I think that is both an unfair assumption and oversimplification.
Little background is given of the title character other than she grew up in a lower class family, changed her name, and worked her way up the corporate ladder to her current position as editorinchief.
The audience isnt given much more than that to round out her character, though Meryl Streep gives her depth in the movie adaptationwhich isnt saying much since Streep could star in the biography of a paper bag and still win an Oscar.
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Instead, we see Anna Wintour Miranda Priestly through the doe eyes of Andrea “Andy” Sachs, who doesnt realize that perhaps she is the real antagonist of the novel.
Through her own confession she has no clue about the company nor her potential boss when she takes on the role of Mirandasnd assistant, nor does she seem to really care.
While her coworkers at Runway are said to be vapid and stuck up, they have a much better work ethic than the lazy Andy who complains about every part of her job except all the perks, of which there are plenty.
She is ungrateful for the experience and the contacts she gains while doing Mirandas errands, instead she focuses on moaning about having to actually earn her dues.
I see her as an unreliable narrator since nearly all of her commentary comes from the place of entitlement,


Priestly is cast as the villain because she is difficult and demands efficiency, though one could argue that this book wouldnt be given nearly the mileage or popularity if the accusations hurled against her were by a male main character instead of speshul snowflake Andy.
There is a trope in modern culture that women in leadership positions have to fight double standards for acting the same way as their male counterparts, and this is never touched upon in the novel.
Can Miranda be cold and condescending at times Yes, however it is important to understand how much she has accomplished, her worth to the magazine and the fashion world, and the respect she has garnered in the industry.
She wouldnt have gotten where she was if she didnt have talent and gumption,


If theres an unlikeable character here, its unappreciative Andy who doesnt like that she has to live outside the bubble she grew up in.
While she keeps being reminded that hers is a job that “a million girls would die for” and that working for Miranda for a year would save heryears of experience elsewhere, she decides to blow up at her boss in theth hour.
While the author was probably looking for the audience to cheer at the childish outburst of “Fuck you, Miranda, Fuck you. ” p.and the resulting flouncing from Paris, I found this tantrum to be déclassé and further proof of Andys wanton unprofessionalism.


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