The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada

Lauren Weisberger once worked for Anna Wintour (aka Nuclear Wintour), the editor of Vogue. I suspect a lot of readers were trying to get the inside scoop on what's it's like to work for fashion's premiere bitch. Recently graduated Andrea, who couldn't care less about fashion, lands the job "a million girls would kill for", assistant to Miranda, the editor of Runway. This she-wolf of the SS makes incessant and unreasonable demands of her staff and Andrea drones on about it ad infinitum.
Anna or Miranda ? :"Throughout her tenure, she has governed with an unspoken set of rules. Food on the premises is discouraged. Junior staffers are not to speak unless spoken to. One young editor who made the mistake of greeting her in an elevator was upbraided by one of her two personal assistants. Another, agonized over how to react when she saw the boss trip in a hallway, decided to walk past. When she told a senior editor what had happened, she was told 'You did absolutely the right thing.'"
This little paragraph was written about Anna Wintour - sure resembles the Miranda character, doesn't she? And that's why this book has been so successful.

Oh well, my expectations were low so I wasn't disappointed. However I was struck by similarities between Miranda and my last boss - he also reduced most who worked for him to quivering blobs of jelly, drove several of them quite mad. Give someone a taste of power and they become dizzy and obnoxious with it. I think I'll write a whiney book titled Satan is a Socialist.