This was so so different from the tv show! Props to the tv producers for taking an extremely average book and turning it into a worldwide phenomenon!

When I started reading this book I didn't really understand who's perspective it was being written from, and even now I don't know who was supposedly telling this newspaper style/dear diary-esque book.. Was the author? I'm really not sure. The four characters that are portrayed in the tv show are completely different in the book. Even stanford & mr. Big are completely different. They're completely the opposite of what they are in the series.

You can notice some of the stories from the first season of the tv show, thank god they changed the angle the tv show was taking in season two..

I think the way this was written was awful. The author has made herself come across as a complete snob and given the impression that she cares only for herself and the petty things of life. It portrayed to me there's more joy, entertainment and living that comes from people's dramas and personal issues that actually portraying the people living in the problems and how they try to solve them.

I'm not sure whether this is just my petty opinion or whether more people see the book to come across like this, but I had much higher expectations for this book. Bit of a letdown..