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?
 

Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why it Often Sucks in theCity, or Who are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

by Jen Lancaster

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.

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booklady
  • Rated 5 stars

I always wonder if an author's second book is going to be as good and as funny as the first. Seems impossible, but it definitely is!! There are parts of this book that are almost too funny. I don't recommend reading this while your partner is sleeping next to you--he'll wake up because the bed is shaking from you laughing. Particularly histerical is Jen's take on going to the gynecologist for her yearly visit. OMG, just too funny, but something only another woman can appreciate. I can't...

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sweetafton
  • Rated 2 stars

There are a few chuckles in this installment of Miss Lancaster's exercise in serial narcissism, but not as many as in the third installment, Such a Pretty Fat.

Very formulaic writing, and once you read one chapter, you have essentially read them all. If you must? This is one to borrow rather than buy.

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  • Rated 4.326087 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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