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?

Jen Lancaster

NAL, May 2007, $14.00

ISBN: 0451221257

The third line of this kick butt urbanized reflections sums up the tome and author Jen Lancaster’s philosophy as she writes a letter to “Dear Carrie Bradshaw” (of Sex and the City claim): “You are a fucking lair”.  From there no sacred politically correct cows survive though anti politically correct has become the in mantra; soon we will learn from the anonymous pundits that it is time for an anti anti politically correct movement.  Nobody escapes Ms. Lancaster’s amusing wrath whether she discusses Fletch, “retarded” people like herself and her readers like this reviewer, Chicago, the New York Stock Exchange, shopping at Target, or President Bush’s Christian family values that produced the “Twins” as his role models for the rest of the country of his achievements.  Readers from the purple states will appreciate this often humorous bulls-eyes but always rants on life in the American jungle in which the Stairmaster always conquers the climber and the neighbors suck (read the book if you want to know what).

Harriet Klausner