"kick butt urbanized reflections"

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

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 27, 2007

Summary

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 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.

Whether she's reporting rude neighbors to Homeland Security, harboring a crush on her grocery store clerk, or fighting—and losing—the Battle of the Stairmaster—Lancaster explores how silly, strange, and not-so-fabulous real city living can be. And if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss her big, fat, pink, puffy down parka.