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Book Review of 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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I have never read a Jen Lancaster book, and I did enjoy this one. I didn't know to expect that it was basically a "diary" of her life as an unemployed/writer. I am not quite done with the book, so that means its not quite as good as other books I've read, as, to me, its not a "can't put it down" kind of book. It is funny, but she makes herself out to be fairly unintelligent, which doesn't go along with the fact that she used to be a top executive, and she recently wrote a book. It is worth reading, just probably not my style. It was more a diary than a story, in my opinion.