Ask Again Later: A Novel | 
| Author: Jill A. Davis
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Avg. Customer Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 143359
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0060875976
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060875978
ASIN: 0060875976
Publication Date: February 1, 2008
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Product Description
Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. When her mother dramatically announces, "They've found a lump," Emily gladly leaves behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about who she is and what she's doing with her life to be by her mother's side. But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that she hasn't run fast or far enough—especially when she opens the door, quite literally, to find her past staring her in the face.
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 Couldn't get through it. July 23, 2008
I was very bored with this book, and it was very difficult to follow, she writes like a person thinks and goes off in too many directions.
A Disjointed Beginning with a Better Ending. . . June 30, 2008
I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed. I wanted so badly to like Ask Again Later because I seem to remember liking Girls Poker Night so much when I read it a few years ago. Apparently it was not to be.
I read a lot, and even though I sometimes read on a rush hour bus, I'd like to think I'm not incapable of keeping track of a book's plot and sequence of events. But I found the book to be very disjointed, as I believe another reviewer mentioned. I was not sure in the beginning whether it was taking place in present day or in looking back, especially in terms of her father and where she was working. I figured it out soon enough, but why should that have been so difficult. The transitions just seemed to be lacking, especially from the start, which I guess put me in the wrong mindset to enjoy the rest of the book.
The characters - I didn't love them. Didn't really like them very much in fact. I can understand lack of commitment and wanting to escape, surely -- (I read and love Anne Tyler's books, after all) -- but Emily didn't really do anything to make me like her, in spite of her faults. And honestly, aside from a few, funny oddities and quirks about her "new" place of employment, I wasn't really laughing.
I will admit, though, that my opinion of the book greatly changed during the final third of the book. I think Davis found her voice, as Emily began to find herself. Transitions were clearer. The plot flowed more easily. In fact, if the first two parts of the book were any more like the third, I think I would have enjoyed this book quite a lot. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.
I picked up Ask Again Later without reading reviews on it because I had liked Davis' previous book and that was good enough for me. This book wasn't horrible. There was nothing particularly bad; there just wasn't anything that made me stand up and say "wow" either. Regardless, I probably will pick up her next novel when she writes one in the future and give it a try.
OK for a quick read May 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was chosen as a book club read based on the reviews that it was "hysterical" and "hilarious". It's not funny as expected. It's very disjointed and the characters are not likeable. The good thing about the short chapters is that you can easily read a chapter and then put the book down. I just had a hard time to pick it back up to continue.
 Not so great April 20, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book was an easy read but it was difficult to relate to any of the characters in the book. My book club would not recommend this read.
 Superb! I'll read every word Jill puts to paper! March 18, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I liked this book a lot. I read it over a year ago and it left me wanting more. Same as after reading Girls Poker Night. I am always looking for a great book to escape with that has meaning. I have my favorite authors- Jill, Marian Keyes, and Melissa Bank are the best! I wish that Jill would write more and I want to let her know how much I appreciate her work and am always looking out for her next novel.
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