My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt To Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is The New Black, Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
The book has a, lot of potential, but was terribly disorganized and really felt like a lot of random thoughts just collected and put in a book. I laughed a lot and I enjoyed her descriptions of Chicago but this according to some of Jenexpert friends is not like her other books. There is not plot or unifying idea, I really don't know how this got off an editor's desk. Not sorry I read it, but sorry this was the, first Jen book I read! Maybe it's because I listened to this on an audio book instead of reading it, but I thought this book was 10% funny and 90% obnoxious. I'll admit, the narrator's voice was so annoying that I had a hard time focusing on what she was saying. However, this has to be the most incoherent and unorganized book that has ever been published. There is no logical flow from chapter to chapter; Jen bounces from a highly detailed review of a play to restaurant to weekend at the beach to a 10 page analysis of her dinner, with snippets of her irrelevant emails pasted in between. I get the vibe that Jen thinks being "cultured" means that you dine at the most trendy, overpriced restaurants and go to the finest theaters every weekend, and that frustrates me because there's so much more to culture than schmoozing the rich and being able to name-drop. Jen is one of my favorite authors, but this memoir felt poorly executed. And if she uses the word "strongs" one more time in reference to her muscles, I will scream so loud it will shatter more glasses than her favorite opera singer.
What do You think about My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt To Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is The New Black, Or, A Culture-Up Manifesto (2010)?
This was a great fun, laugh out loud read! Loved it....this author has a great sense of humour.
—ckobo
as always, jen lancaster is a guilty pleasure that I can unfortunately relate too
—LordFlyte
