The Devil Wears Prada - Wake Me Up When It's Over

You know, I'd heard of the book The Devil Wears Prada (Laura Weisberger) before I knew the movie was in the works. I just never had the opportunity - or time - to pick it up. It seems everyone was saying what a great the book it was and then when the movie release was announced, I perked up.

I watched the movie trailers and thought, holy smokes, that looks really boring. But I was convinced that like many book-based movies, it was the movie that got it all wrong. So, on the weekend, I bought the book.

I'm on page 72 (I'm slow because, well moms are busy folk, you know) and NOTHING has happened. The girl gets a job in a place where fashion is everything, money is no object and the boss is a nut. I guess the author once worked for the editor of Vogue magazine and we're supposed to wonder what is pure fiction and what is based on fact. Doesn't make it anymore fun for me.

My first job out of college (or university as we call it in Canada) was for a Korean business man who could barely speak English but to bark orders and ran his business according to Korean business practices, which just don't fly in Canada. Things were totally nuts in this workplace, nobody knew what to expect and it was pretty volatile...but it wouldn't make a good movie or book.

I don't know, but maybe I was expecting the boss to REALLY be the devil or something interesting like that. Last year, I happened to pick up The Diva's Guide to Selling Your Soul by Kathleen O'Reilly at an airport. Now that book was FUN and people really did sell their soul to the devil for a fabulous lifestyle. It was hilarious right off the bat and I devoured the whole book on that flight (uh...yeah, the kids were not there at the time).

If you want some good pulp fiction, definitely grab the Diva's Guide...or if you love The Devil Wears Prada, please tell me what I'm missing!