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Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
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| Part No: | 0451221257 |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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- ISBN13: 9780451221254
- Condition: New
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NEW. Trade size paperback. "A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in the City, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?"
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| Shame and Disappointment | 2010-08-16 | 1 / 5 |
| This is the worst book I've been conned into reading a very long time! I was so excited when I picked it up, read the description and little quotations supposedly pulled from reviews on its back cover. It seemed like a really funny, relate-able summer read. And I was thrilled even more to find out that the "big city" referred to by the title was my own, Chicago!
Oh my. What a letdown. From all evidence presented, Jen Lancaster has settled in Chicago after the dot-com crash, and managed to do so in a pretty swanky neighborhood of the city, and completely of her own free will. After some much-whined-about hard times of unemployment, during which she and her husband had to sell off all of their "nice things" from her previous shopping sprees to Bloomingdales and Neiman Marcus, she seems to be living a comfortable life as she writes her book and works temp jobs.
The book is just full of what amounts to a spoiled little rich girl, an ex-sorority sister, lamenting that her life isn't better than good. What REALLY put me off the book once and for all was when she began to berate the staff at her favorite Target store (if this is her favorite, I shudder to hear about her LEAST approved-of locale). She claims to have once been a Target cashier, back when Target was a fledgling company operating under a much different marketing ideal than the one most of us know today. And she sounds like a haughty, snobbish, petty old hag, at least TWICE her age when she describes in hyperbolic detail the tattoos she spied on one staff member as well as the stool that one cashier was provided, undoubtedly due to a disability.
I can't imagine what book editor read this manuscript and thought anyone but the top 1% of the wealthy in our country could manage a titter over it. Jen's supposedly hilarious little stories about her "miserable" life in Chicago are classist, immature, self-centered, and ridiculously stuck-up. And given the change in our economy, it has become even more ridiculous to read today. HORRIBLE. |
| Hysterically entertaining | 2010-08-12 | 5 / 5 |
| | I've read all of Jen's books and let me tell you- this one tops the charts. I could NOT stop laughing. Maybe it helps that I live in a city myself, but seriously, hysterical. If you want to laugh your "big ass" off, you've gotta read it! :) |
| So funny I was crying 10 pages in | 2010-07-28 | 5 / 5 |
| | This is one of the funniest books I have ever read...I was laughing so hard I was crying 10 pages in. |
| Wears out its welcome | 2010-07-28 | 2 / 5 |
| | I enjoyed the first twenty to thirty pages of this book, but soon thereafter it began to lose its charm. To the author's credit, she did give us fair warning in the book's subtitle. I would add "profoundly annoying" to "self-indulgent" and "surly." |
| | My favorite Jennifer Lancaster book! In Bright Lights, Big Ass Jennifer Lancaster successfully debunks myths about city living that are generally portrayed on television shows. Aside from her ability to make the reader laugh-out-loud Jennifer Lancaster offers a unique perspective as someone who has had a career in the corporate world. |
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