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Don't You Forget About Me: A Novel Don't You Forget About Me: A Novel
by Jancee Dunn
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Chuckell's review
recommended for: Jerseyites, girls who like pink
status: Read in September, 2008

What the hell? This isn't Gossip Girl Book 11!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/...

Hell, it's not even that long-awaited autobiography of Jim Kerr I've been waiting to see published. I'm particularly interested in the Chrissy Hynde years, obviously.

I never realized until just this moment that I am exactly four days older than Patsy Kensit.

Anyway, just kidding--I bought this book because Jancee Dunn's memoir, But Enough About Me was charming as all getout and also because I met her in person and she was real cute.

And . . . well. What I ended up with was a brush with the purest strain of chicklit I've yet been exposed to. Pretty but disagreeable woman eventually ditches obvious jerk for decent guy and grows a little in the process. I've really got to say that it seems unwise to follow up a memoir with a novel in which the main character sounds pretty much identical t...more
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message 1: by Bess
09/19/2008 09:48AM

229445 Aww, is this the literary equivalent of the sensitive male's prominent displaying of Indigo Girls and Sarah McLachlan cds?

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message 2: by Chuckell
09/19/2008 10:28AM

349560 Sarah McLachlan, maybe, or Tori Amos--but don't never did no one never buy no Indigo Girls albums on account of a cute picture on the back.

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message 3: by Bess
09/19/2008 11:22AM

229445 No, guys buy Indigo Girls and Paula Cole cds because having them strewn casually around the house is a guaranteed lay.

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message 4: by Chuckell
09/19/2008 11:40AM

349560 That would have worked with this book? You know, telling me this in the middle of the day when I'm at work doesn't help me much.

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message 5: by Bess
09/19/2008 01:23PM

229445 Sorry, let me rephrase: Guys buy Indigo Girls and Paula Cole cds because THEY MISTAKENLY BELIEVE THAT having them strewn casually around the house is a guaranteed lay.
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