I read – rather, tried to read – The Devil Wears Prada, and it was terrible. I was having doubts after page ten and finally tossed it aside around page twenty. The movie was great and the cast was great, but the book read like a whiny diary, like something I would have written in middle school after being dumped. Sure, short sentences and fragments can be used stylistically, but not when your genre is chick lit or commercial fiction. Then it just comes off as sloppy.