Blogger Charlee Iddon posted on Friday about the similarities between Claudia Carroll’s novel, Personally, I Blame My Fairy Godmother and dialogue used in Bridget Jones, Friends and, especially, Sex and the City.
Carroll: I’ve always thought the witch in Hansel and Gretel is a deeply misunderstood woman. She builds her dream home and two brats come along and eat it?
SATC: But the witch in Hansel and Gretel — she’s very misunderstood. I mean, the woman builds her dream house and these brats come along and start eating it
Carroll: I panic dated… then I panic married now I’ve met the one
SATC: I panic dated, now I’ve panic married just before I met the one
Carroll: It’s a huge mistake to think you can change a man, apart from clothes and hair that’s it because mark my words once you pull at that thread the whole fabric falls apart
SATC: The only things you can work on are their hair and wardrobe. -But even then, it’s a constant battle… Be careful with alterations. If you pull the wrong thread, everything falls apart.
‘Homage’ surely?
I’d say she’s one of those man changers alright. She has a real múinteoir head on her.
That sinking feeling, when the kid shouts “The king is in the buff”
….. expose?
“shocked and upset” the blog had exposed her I’d say.
Love the philosophical “who knows what is original anymore?”
Well Claudia it certainly looks like we all know that your books aren’t original anyway.
A massive blow to the credibility of chick-lit.
Ah, the credibility of chick-lit. Brilliant.
Well she certainly didn’t steal any lines from Fair City.Clever Girl!
Panic-married???
We’ve all been there.
Haha! Interesting. What a crazy-ass thing to do. Need to find out more on this.
From my own dating experiences, these type of expressions come up all the time… Me ARSE!
expressions come up Me ARSE! all the time…
“From my own dating experiences, these type of expressions come up all the time… ”
Me ARSE!
Claudia Carroll has done it again!!
I lolled
Who the fúck reads this gibberish, and a more worrying thought is the state of mind of the person who actually hands over money for it. Good Christ, no wonder we’re fúcked
Claudia Carroll …C.C ….Carbon Copy. Nuff said!
Easy now girls! First Taoiseach Kenny, now writer Carroll.
Did you not realise that this year’s trend is homage to a previous significant piece of writing?
Frankly me dears, you shouldn’t give a damn!
Looks by botox, books by xerox.
*Loud applause*
Careful Niamh, she may rob that line!
I already have.
Same here
The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“… to be honest each evening as I’d write up my notes, I end up crying. It just made me think as I passed through town the other day and saw people standing in long queues – do we really need this?”
http://www.irishcatholic.ie/site/content/gift-keeps-giving-aoife-hegarty
Claudia hasn’t seen SATC since the series finished.
Neither has anyone else.
Coz it finished.
Exactly. And what television station would be foolish enough to re-broadcast, or “repeat”, a programme that had already aired?
All of this affords CC’s book enough additional publicity to double sales. The boys and girls in marketing are gonna love it. Champagne all round.