What readers think of The Devil Wears Prada, plus links to write your own review.

300 + pages of someone making unreasonable demands on another person. Not much fun to read and a lot of it was not believable.

The descriptions of fashion were good I don't think the average reader cares much about or even knows the difference between a fendi bag and any other bag.

I don't understand how this book was a bestseller.

does anyone know what Andrea was studying in college? was it to be an editor, a writer...?

Now this was a very nice and light read for me. She makes her point with her writing as the insanity escallates her ability to care and the shock factor,diminishes. I think we all have had a Miranda P in our lives and can relate to the seamingly insane tasks asked of us. Thus, giving us the ability to empathize with Andrea. Now if you are looking for a deep and meaningful novel this isn't it. However, if you are looking for a novel that takes real-life and puts it in a manhattan perspective , like few of us have lived, and maintain a cynical and humorous perspective and means to escape our everyday lives... this is it. I wish she would have done more character development with Andrea, I feel it is more the cliff-notes, and her close characters. I have a feeling though that the author meant it to be this way.. just magnifying the shallowness of the environment she lived and worked in.

I loved Ms. Weisberger's Devil Wears Prada. Having picked it up at a bookstore in Florence, it seemed the perfect light read but little did I know that evil ensues, directly at a heroine who never fails to describe herself as a potential supermodel hottie with a heart of gold and all those around her, particularly Miranda, as hatefulness personfied. The odd part is why having suffered for eleven months and some days toward her goal of surviving a year to cash out and get a dream job did she end it all for no particular point except to prove her ability to utter profanities toward her boss at a Paris runway show? While no one else would do that, and therefore, she stands out, those other weaklings are employed and her only hoppes of employment come from those who seem to hate Miranda as much as she does. While the other characters, such as Alex and Lily, take up space, some like Emily and James are truly to be pitied, and one wonders whether Nigel is in fact, Andre Leon Talley? If he's not, he should sue and why Anna Wintour didn't sue, particularly after her name is gratuitously used at the end is beyond me. If it's all true, and it may be, despite the disclaimer that it's all fiction, Miranda aka Anna is truly unique, which is probably more than you can say for Ms. Weisberger. As she says, damn her for being right.

I like this book because I understand Andrea. I understand why she stays in the hellish job. It's not that difficult to comprehend. And I did care about the characters. Unless you've been in a similar situation (albeit this one was a little over the top -- on purpose, I'm sure) you probably won't get this book. If you try to feel what she's feeling and get into her life, you'll understand why she makes the decisions she does. You'll also feel a lot better about your own job -- whatever it is.

I loved Andrea, Lily, and Alex, and I could feel for Emily. You might say this book is a good vs. evil

This book is a wonderfully light and entertaining read, and shines a new light on the fashion industry. Andrea is a vivid, moving character, and the narration is done so that we're carried through a stage in her life with just enough detail. Halfway through, though, I thought that the 'journalistic' style of the book was a little tiring; Miranda's demanding requests were beginning to get a little too monotonous and predictable. Overall, I love this book, but I wouldn't recommend it as an intellectual read. It's a light, fun book to pass through your spare time.

What a sad but true commentary on the fashion/entertainment industry. What a waste of time, money and people just to feed some overinflated egos. This book was right on the nose as I see this happen everyday. The industry needs a wake up call.

The Devil Wears Prada is Lauren Weisberger’s first book, and details the experiences of Brown graduate, Andrea Sachs in her first job as personal assistant to the high-profile, fabulously successful Miranda Priestly, editor of Runway magazine. The book is said to be based on Weisberger’s time at Vogue, working for Anna Wintour. This book is pretty funny and is probably quite an accurate picture of the fashion industry, especially the ostentation and the obscene waste of money. Literature, it isn’t; it is, basically, a litany of the progressively more outrageous demands made on her staff by the editor of a top fashion magazine and a tedious catalogue of brand names. The editor is painted as a cold-hearted, demanding, unreasonable monster; her staff are portrayed as anorexic image-obsessed minions without personality. This book confirms for me why I care nothing for the superficial world of fashion.