There are many things I love about Sex and the City DVD. I love the fact she is not too beautiful and that (most) men don't fancy her. Like Jane Austen's Lizzie Bennet in Pride And Prejudiceand Sex and the City DVD set, she is prickly, she is blunt.
She changes her hair, Sex and the City DVD BOXSET. She is terrible with money and hedonistic in a world where, these days, everyone is worrying about their pensions. She is honest with her friends and about her own shortcomings.
She is wildly optimistic. We could all take a leaf out of Sex and the City Seasons 1-6 DVD boxset'S Carrie's book, and I don't mean the one I am about to review.
I really hope the Sex and the City DVD sequel does not see Carrie with a square of terry cloth on her breast where a corsage should rightly be.
I have seen the trailer of Sex and the City DVD Set that is more anticipated by most women than the General Election and can reveal that Carrie bumps into former love Aidan. Whether she gets a different kind of bump I do not know.
She also regresses back to the 1980s, an excuse for costume designer Patricia Field to let loose with Lycra, Lurex, batwings, inside-out sweatshirts, leggings and bubble perms.
The 1980s segments are great - Sex and the City Seasons 1-6 DVD boxset, the Working Girl shoulder pads - but don't tell us what made Carrie the woman she is in the Noughties. Instead, we have The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell, the woman who created Carrie.
In the book, Carrie is 17 and longing to get to Manhattan to make it as a writer. InSex and the City DVD,She has two sisters, a coterie of female friends, one gay friend, a smoking habit, is a whizz at maths, has a predilection for cocktails, but as yet no laptop or Mr Big.
She is a virgin, Sex and the City DVD Seta status she has held on to long after her friends, even the nerdy ones, have fallen by the wayside. She is a romantic, an optimist.
She is also a dyed-in-cashmere feminist. She doesn't want to get married or have babies, but she does want love.
So, even though I love Carrie, did I love this book? Afraid not.
I've got to know Carrie intimately over the past decade, owning the SATC box set and the first film, and watching them whenever I feel lonely, afraid or merely need my spirits lifting.
But reading this book,but Sex and the City DVD boxset I realised Bushnell no longer knows, nor cares, who Carrie is: she has taken her royalty cheque and got her happy ending, which in her world means a man.
Carrie aged 17 is not funny, nor is she happy. Bushnell tries to make her clever, but the only thing that fills her Sex and the City Seasons 1-6 DVD boxset's brain is thoughts of boys.
While the Sex and the City DVD was never, really, about men - mere backdrops to Carrie's real love affair, with herself and her girlfriends - in the book, they are in every sentence.
There is a Sex and the City DVD Set in the teenage Carrie that she doesn't have in later life, the sort of optimism that makes her purchase a pair of beautiful, impractical shoes when she has no money.
There are clues as to how fashion became as vital as oxygen for her - Sex and the City DVD boxset she cherishes the handbag left to her by her mother - and you begin to glimpse how clothes became not an expression of a rebel personality but an armour.
Clothes for Carrie are never a way of attracting men - Sex and the City Seasons 1-6 DVD boxset after all, a man only needs sight of a minidress to turn him on, and most men find Carrie's quirky, not-always-flattering sartorial choices baffling.
Sex and the City DVD fans know it was Carrie's father who left her mother, which makes her mistrustful of men. But in this book, it's her patient dad who brings her up, which makes no sense at all.
There is one prescient sentence, where Sex and the City DVD set'SCarrie realises that perhaps those who peak in school, the ones on the cheerleading team, go on to have horrible lives. That those of us who weren't popular, the late bloomers, find solace late in life.
This book doesn't have a happy ending. We know Carrie struggles when she gets to the Sex and the City DVD boxset. We will have to wait for the film to see whether, for her, happiness does mean a husband and baby, or whether (as I am hoping) there's something different in store.
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