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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
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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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 best-selling 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, adult.
Critic reviews
“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 best-selling author Carrie Ryan)
"She's like that friend who always says what you're thinking - just 1,000 times funnier." (People)
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-02-12
Super Jen Lancaster Fans Be Warned...
If you are a huge Jen Lancaster fan like me (read all her books (sometimes twice), read ALL of her blog entries (again with the sometimes twice), I have even gone to a book signing, you are going to be a little disappointed to recognize ALOT of the stories that are in this book. I love hearing her read them but because I have already read them myself (sometimes twice...ok alot of times twice) I feel like I am hanging out with a friend who is telling me the same stories over and over and when she starts one I'm like, "Do I stop her and tell her I have heard this or be polite and just let her tell me again?"
That's the ONLY reason for the 3 stars.
If you are new to Jen or are maybe less familiar with her work ....you will love this!
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- T. Snyder
- 05-20-12
Jen Lancaster does it again!
Would you consider the audio edition of Jeneration X to be better than the print version?
Yes! I love listening to this book. The way it is written, and with it in audio form, it is like hanging out with one of your friends.
What other book might you compare Jeneration X to and why?
It is another Jen Lancaster book but, bitter is the new black is awesome!
What about Jen Lancaster’s performance did you like?
I like how real she is. No Political Correctness here. Just states it the way she sees it.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
A day in the Life of Jen
Any additional comments?
Once you start reading her books, you want to read them all. They are very addicting!
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- GothamReader
- 08-28-12
If this is the voice of my generation...
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I can't help but feel that I might like this book better if I were reading it rather than listening to it. After 30 minutes, I felt like she was a really annoying friend that was taking up to much air in the car. You know, THAT girl, who feels like she has to have everyone's attention when she tells her story for a little too long and with over-the-top negativity.
Would you be willing to try another book from Jen Lancaster? Why or why not?
Not really.
How could the performance have been better?
I think it would have been better is the tone had been toned down. The words do the work and don't need the additional vocal heavy lifting.
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- Kelly
- 06-19-12
I've been waiting for Jen to read her own work! :)
I love all of Jen's books - so much so that I have seriously contemplated buying all of the e-books and audiobooks, in addition to the hard copies that I already own. This is the first one that I have bought a "double" of, and it's 100% because Jen X is self-narrated. It's true, this book does have many stories that already appeared on her blog, but I am totally ok with that, and here's why:
1) Hearing her stories in her voice adds a whole new layer of hilarious to them.
2) It is much easier for me to share a funny story with a friend when all I have to remember is "Chapter 2" instead of "What on earth was the title of that blog post again? Something about her dogs... but damn it, there's 500 dog stories on here! Oh forget it, it was really funny and that's all you need to know."
3) My all-time favorite blog story is included, which resolves number 2, above. (I believe the blog post was titled "The Evolution of a Bad Idea.")
4) If you have been to one of Jen's readings/signings, this book is a great way to relive them. If not, it will give you a taste of how she sounds and how she "thinks" her stories.
I really hope that Jen continues to narrate her books, even if it means I will have to spend twice as much money on each book from now on.
Happy listening!
PS - If you are a first timer, two of my favorites from Jen are My Fair Lazy and Bright Lights, Big Ass - check them out too!
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- JDDPTA
- 05-31-12
Loved, loved, loved it!
I was so excited that another Jen Lancaster book was out, I got it as soon as I could, and boy was I not disappointed! And as bonus, the author herself reads it! As with all her other books, I found myself laughing aloud, at times to the point of tears. I love her wit and humor and strong personality. Whether you've read other books or not, you have to read this (although, really, they all deserve to be read!)
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- David
- 09-17-12
Just ok
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This is a quasi-humorous book by an author who seems to really have nothing much to say other than to continually remind the reader/listener that while she used to be poor, she is now very successful. So, we are told about how she gets to go all over the country on her book tour, how she lives in an expensive house in the woods with rich neighbors down the street, about her estate planning problems, and on and on. Frankly, it was all very self-congratulatory and off putting. And... not particularly funny.
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- K. Bigelow
- 08-02-12
As Always Jen Delivers a great read!!!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I love this author, she shares the same humor in life as I do. I feel like I am reading a page from my life when listening to her....an easy way to pass my long distance driving to college!!
What did you like best about this story?
It's Hilarious
Have you listened to any of Jen Lancaster’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have only read her other books, which are also great!!!
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I laugh hysterically with this author.
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- Katie Smith
- 07-12-12
Another great read, well listen, from Jensylvannia
Would you listen to Jeneration X again? Why?
Absolutely. Jen is hilarious and her view of life is so much fun!
What did you like best about this story?
I love that Jen is talking about learning to grow up. It's the same place I find myself in life at the moment.
What does Jen Lancaster bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Her emphasis and sarcasm really drive home her true feelings about the events of the books. You don't get that from reading it on your own.
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- William
- 06-21-12
A laugh out loud collection
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I always find Lancaster's memoirs laugh out loud funny. As a bonus, she reads this collection of essays herself. While the narrator that read her previous works did a fine job, there is nothing like the tone and inflection that Jen can give her own stories. I hope she continues to read her own works!
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- Kelly
- 06-05-12
Jen should narrate all of her books!
I've loved all of Jen's memoirs to date and "Jeneration X" is no exception. Actually, it may be my new favorite (dethroning "Such a Pretty Fat".) Even though I'm a Gen Y-er, I tend to agree with her assessment of my generation. I wish more of my peers would listen to this and learn some of her Reluctant Adult Lessons.
Jen's narration is the best thing about this audiobook. She's very engaging and I found myself getting completely drawn into her stories. I wish she had narrated her other books as well!
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- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she’s managed to document her (and her generation’s) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all - sometimes with disastrous results...Mistakes are one thing; regrets are another. After a girls’ weekend in Savannah makes her realize that she is - yikes! - middle-aged (binge watching is so the new binge drinking), Jen decides to make a bucket list and seize the day.
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The Smug Is Strong With This One
- By T. Filowitz on 05-24-15
By: Jen Lancaster
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Bitter Is the New Black
- Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb. She had the perfect man, the perfect job-hell, she had the perfect life - and there was no reason to think it wouldn't last. Or maybe there was, but Jen Lancaster was too busy being manicured, pedicured, highlighted, and generally adored to notice.
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Intolerable
- By Betty on 09-12-09
By: Jen Lancaster
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Stories I'd Tell in Bars
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster, John Fletcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Older, but not wiser, Lancaster goes back to basics in this hilarious essay collection about everything from taking community policing classes to accidentally getting high with her waiter after a fancy dinner. These are the tales she'd tell if she met you in a bar... if she weren't too lazy to put on pants and go to a bar. Offering advice ranging from how to remain happily married to a man who refuses to blow his damn nose already to not creating An Incident at the cheese counter during an attempt at Whole30, she's you, only louder.
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self absorbed
- By D D H on 06-15-19
By: Jen Lancaster
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Here I Go Again
- A Novel
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn't understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was worshipped...beloved...feared. Present day, not so much. She's been pink-slipped from her high-paying job, dumped by her husband and kicked out of her condo. Now, at 37, she's struggling to start a business out of her parents' garage and sleeping under the hair-band posters in her old bedroom. Lissy finally realizes karma is the only bitch bigger than she was.
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Love Jen... but please, please don't narrate
- By K. Yorston on 01-30-13
By: Jen Lancaster
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My Fair Lazy
- One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being a Dumb Ass Is t he New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
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Readers and listeners have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration along the way. And she does so by any means necessary: reading canonical literature, viewing classic films, attending the opera, researching artisan cheeses, and even enrolling in etiquette classes to improve her social graces.
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Disappointing ... Both Narration and Story
- By Jennifer on 05-06-12
By: Jen Lancaster
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Welcome to the United States of Anxiety
- Observations from a Reforming Neurotic
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. Take a deep breath, and her advice, and you just might get through a holiday dinner without wanting to disown your uncle.
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Not relatable
- By shelly on 11-03-20
By: Jen Lancaster
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I Regret Nothing
- A Memoir
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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New York Times best-selling author Jen Lancaster has lived a life based on re-invention and self-improvement. From Bitter Is the New Black to The Tao of Martha, she’s managed to document her (and her generation’s) attempts to shape up, grow up, and have it all - sometimes with disastrous results...Mistakes are one thing; regrets are another. After a girls’ weekend in Savannah makes her realize that she is - yikes! - middle-aged (binge watching is so the new binge drinking), Jen decides to make a bucket list and seize the day.
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The Smug Is Strong With This One
- By T. Filowitz on 05-24-15
By: Jen Lancaster
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Bitter Is the New Black
- Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Jen Lancaster was living the sweet life-until real life kicked her to the curb. She had the perfect man, the perfect job-hell, she had the perfect life - and there was no reason to think it wouldn't last. Or maybe there was, but Jen Lancaster was too busy being manicured, pedicured, highlighted, and generally adored to notice.
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Intolerable
- By Betty on 09-12-09
By: Jen Lancaster
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Stories I'd Tell in Bars
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster, John Fletcher
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Older, but not wiser, Lancaster goes back to basics in this hilarious essay collection about everything from taking community policing classes to accidentally getting high with her waiter after a fancy dinner. These are the tales she'd tell if she met you in a bar... if she weren't too lazy to put on pants and go to a bar. Offering advice ranging from how to remain happily married to a man who refuses to blow his damn nose already to not creating An Incident at the cheese counter during an attempt at Whole30, she's you, only louder.
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self absorbed
- By D D H on 06-15-19
By: Jen Lancaster
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Here I Go Again
- A Novel
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn't understand why her glory days ended. Back then, she was worshipped...beloved...feared. Present day, not so much. She's been pink-slipped from her high-paying job, dumped by her husband and kicked out of her condo. Now, at 37, she's struggling to start a business out of her parents' garage and sleeping under the hair-band posters in her old bedroom. Lissy finally realizes karma is the only bitch bigger than she was.
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Love Jen... but please, please don't narrate
- By K. Yorston on 01-30-13
By: Jen Lancaster
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My Fair Lazy
- One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being a Dumb Ass Is t he New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Readers and listeners have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to achieve cultural enlightenment, with some hilarious missteps and genuine moments of inspiration along the way. And she does so by any means necessary: reading canonical literature, viewing classic films, attending the opera, researching artisan cheeses, and even enrolling in etiquette classes to improve her social graces.
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Disappointing ... Both Narration and Story
- By Jennifer on 05-06-12
By: Jen Lancaster
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The Tao of Martha
- My Year of LIVING; Or, Why I'm Never Getting All That Glitter Off of the Dog
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jen Lancaster
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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One would think that with Jen Lancaster’s impressive list of bestselling self-improvement memoirs that she would have it all together by now. One would be wrong. Jen’s still a little rough around the edges. Suffice it to say, she’s no Martha Stewart. And that is exactly why Jen is going to Martha up and live her life according to the advice of America’s overachieving older sister - the woman who turns lemons into lavender-infused lemonade.
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Not as light as previous books, still witty
- By Dogs & Horses on 05-10-15
By: Jen Lancaster
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The Gatekeepers
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Arielle Delisle, Julia Whelan, Michael Goldstrum, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Meet Simone, the bohemian transfer student from London, who is thrust into the strange new reality of an American high school; Mallory, the hypercompetitive queen bee; and Stephen, the first-generation genius who struggles with crippling self-doubt. Each one is shocked when a popular classmate takes his own life...except not too shocked. It's happened before. With so many students facing their own demons, can they find a way to save each other - as well as themselves?
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SO worth the credit! This book could save lives!
- By MizzSkully on 11-10-17
By: Jen Lancaster
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Housemoms
- A Novel
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Maria McCann, EJ Lavery, Jeremy Carlisle Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
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How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclay’s unimpeachable society life come tumbling down? One minute she’s speaking before Chicago’s glitterati. The next, her financier husband is wanted for embezzlement. Her assets seized and her fall mortifyingly public, CeCe grasps for refuge—and employment—as a sorority housemom at Eli Whitney University, her daughter Hayden’s alma mater.
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I want more!
- By Kelly M on 12-01-23
By: Jen Lancaster
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Pretty in Plaid
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
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In Pretty in Plaid, Jen Lancaster reveals how she developed the hubris that perpetually gets her into trouble. Using fashion icons of her youth to tell her hilarious and insightful stories, readers will meet the girl she used to be. Jen Lancaster was a badge-hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack for extortion, an aspiring sorority girl who didn't know her Coach from her Louis Vuitton, and a budding executive who found herself bewildered by her first encounter with a fax machine.
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She Always Makes Me Laugh
- By Debra Garfinkle on 04-01-13
By: Jen Lancaster
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Such a Pretty Fat
- One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, Or Why Pi e Is Not the Answer
- By: Jen Lancaster
- Narrated by: Jamie Heinlein
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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To whom the fat rolls...I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy until we all fit into our skinny jeans. I don't find these stories uplifting; they make me want to hug these women and take them out for fizzy champagne drinks and cheesecake and explain to them that until they figure out their insides, their outsides don't matter.
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Hilarious Commentary on Weight Loss!
- By Sara on 09-21-09
By: Jen Lancaster