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? | 
| Author: Jen Lancaster
Publisher: NAL Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 1713
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0451221257
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780451221254
ASIN: 0451221257
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
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Condition: New book, excellent condition
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Product Description
Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky for us, Lancaster knows how to make the life of the lower crust mercilessly funny and infinitely entertaining.
Whether she's reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security, harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, or fighting-and losing-the Battle of the Stairmaster- Lancaster explores how silly, strange, and not-so-fabulous real city living can be. And if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss her big, fat, pink, puffy down parka.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 66 more reviews...
 She's trying way too hard.... July 7, 2008
Lancaster's first book was all about ironies...the loss of her job, the eventual demise of her bank account...the subsequent near-eviction out of a ghetto apartment, etc. This is what made her so endearing. This second book however, just gets on one's nerves. There are Jen's lists, the emails, the "footnotes" and of course, the chapter to contend with. All the while with sentences. that. end. up. written. like. this. Aaggh!! In Lancaster style, she. is. trying. way. too. hard.
she lost me with coulter July 7, 2008
Okay, i know i shouldn't let my political views impede on my book selection. i have close friends who are republicans. i fear my husband is a closeted one. And I enjoyed her last book. But, i felt a frisson of alarm when she mentioned having Fox news on all the time and ripping down an anti-Bush poster. When she wrote about reading an Ann Coulter book, i felt repusled and could not get past it. She would write something funny and i'd think, "but she reads ann coulter!" For whatever reason, that greatly diminished my reading and enjoying the book and will dissuade me from purchasing another.
 Loved it! June 26, 2008
This is another hilarious novel by Lancaster! I loved her first one and this one did not disappoint as well! I laughed out loud so many times, even when I brought the book to Jury Duty! Jennifer Lancaster sure knows how to bring a smile to your face. I most definitely recommend this one and I can't wait to get started on her third, Such a Pretty Fat. She is witty, straight-forward, and tells it like it is, but you love her anyway!
oops, she did it again :) May 30, 2008
As always Jen had me laughing out loud! So much so, the tears from laughing cause me to not be able to continue reading!! I look forward to reading more from her ............ I can totallt relate to her on a million levels!!!
 Fun Read, but Not Her Best Work May 26, 2008
I absolutely loved Bitter is the New Black. It was Laugh Out Loud good. I was anxiouly anticipating the release of this second book only to come away a bit disappointed. The book is still funny and a great poolside read, but it does not pack the punch of Bitter. This book was a bit on the whiney side. I smiled, but did not laugh out loud. I did not find myself wanting to read excerpts to everyone around me as I had with Bitter.
I did love the Target, IKEA, and Trader Joe's stories. The paper gown incident is also a big favorite. Overall there just are not the stories as in Bitter. This second book is mostly just a collection of incidences which do not seemed to be as well connected as the previous.
I am still a huge Jen fan and will certainly read the next book due out soon.
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