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Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner [Hardcover]

Jen Lancaster (Author)
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Release Date: May 1 2012
In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her greatest challenge to date: acting her age.

Jen is finally ready to put away childish things (except her Barbie Styling Head, of course) and embrace the investment-making, mortgage-carrying, life-insurance-having adult she’s become. From getting a mammogram to volunteering at a halfway house, she tackles the grown-up activities she’s resisted for years, and with each rite of passage she completes, she’ll uncover a valuable—and probably humiliating—life lesson that will ease her path to full-fledged, if reluctant, adulthood.

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 “Jen Lancaster is in a master class when it comes to infusing books with wit and charm.”
(Sarah Pekkanen )

"Jen Lancaster has the kind of scathing wit that makes you wish she was your best friend but thankful she's not your new neighbor." 
(New York Times Bestselling Author Carrie Ryan )

"She's like that friend who always says what you're thinking—just 1,000 times funnier." 
(People )

"She's absolutely hilarious." 
(Chicago Sun-Times )

About the Author

Jen Lancaster is the New York Times bestselling author of six books. She has appeared on Today, The Joy Behar Show, and NPR’s All Things Considered, and she is a regular columnist for Tribune Media Services. She resides in the suburbs of Chicago with her husband and their ever-expanding menagerie of ill-behaved pets.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Jen is back Sep 17 2012
By S. Gatien TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Although, her first memoirs were MUCH MUCH MUCH funnier, this one is well written and still very funny. But we all know it's hard to top the perfect book that was 'Bitter is the new black' and 'Such a pretty fat'. She did a much better job than her novel, and I'm forever a fan of Jen, so I gave this book 4 starts. I liked the undertone of the X generation and how it's so different from the normal memoir about her life and much more researched.
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43 of 48 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars So Disappointed! May 14 2012
By Smart Cookie - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
I have read all of Jen's books and really enjoyed them! I also have met her in person and she is very friendly/nice. Being a fan, I was excited for this book to come out. However, instead of trying not to laugh-out-loud, I was just left disappointed. Other reviews are right that it's recycled stories, and the stories come across as really selfish. If you are new to Jen Lancaster, start with "Bitter is the new black" rather than this one. What a dud!
27 of 29 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Bitter and self-absorbed; and not in a good way Jun 23 2012
By 2Cents - Published on Amazon.com
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Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner

I love Jen Lancaster. I have read all her memoirs and they are hilarious. I really, really thought I would love this one, too. If you haven't read anything by her, please choose any of her memoirs. Just not this one.

Jen is still funny, but this book made me cringe. She goes on and on and on about purchases (a fancy-schamancy home, a workshop full of tools, more than one trip to Whole Foods, zinc lions for god's sake), which just makes her sound selfish and materialistic.

Her husband Fletch, the hero of previous books (and one or two of my daydreams) comes off as a weird apocalypse prepper who makes Glenn Beck look moderate.

Her treatment of her family is no longer amusing, either. She comes off as bitter and unkind (instead of the usual biting and funny.)

She even uses the book to launch personal vendettas against an ex-landlord and someone (a fan? a friend? a family member?) who sends unwanted mailings and shows up at book signings.

If you're a Jen Lancaster fan, I won't even try to talk you out of reading this. You need your fix and Jeneration X is better than nothing. But if you're new to Jennsyslvania, start with anything else.
45 of 52 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Um... I have read this somewhere before... Oh right her last 4 books May 8 2012
By Bellabree - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition
This is the first kindle book I have ever returned. It is also the first book that I have never finished, unless you count Beloved (which is a whole other rant).

About 1/4 way into the book I felt that this book was a bitchy summary of all the books she had written before. Yes, we loyal readers know that you purchased a giant barbie head while looped up on Ambien. We also know all about your house hunting and purchasing antics from your novel "If You Were Here" which was really just exaggerated memoir (although entertaining).

Sadly, for as much as I love her writing, I just can't get behind paying for a book, when I've already read parts and pieces of it in all her other books and novels that I had already purchased!
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