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    Here I Go Again: A Novel

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    The second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of If You Were Here takes us back to the hair metal 80's.

    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 thirty-seven, 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. Her present is miserable because of her past. But it's not like she can go back in time and change who she was...or can she?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 29, 2013
    ISBN9781101604724
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    Reviews for Here I Go Again

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    • 2/5
      Disposable. Some amusing phrasing that doesn't make up for weakness of plot. I don't mean the shtick, either, but the idea that in a city the size of Chicago one high school class could contain so much inbreeding.
    • 4/5
      My rating: 4 of 5 stars
      A copy of Here I Go Again was provided to me by NAL/Edelweiss for review purposes.

      Lissy Ryder is that kind of girl in school that is super popular and you can't help but love/hate her. I know we all went to school with at least one Lissy-type. Her 20-year high school reunion is coming up and shortly before, everything about her life seems to falling apart at the seams. She's kicked out of her swanky gym for not paying the fees, she gets fired from her job and her husband just asked her for a divorce.

      Choosing not to wallow and instead pick herself up and go to her reunion she discovers that the people from high school don't love her as much as they used. Actually? They pretty much hate everything about her. But what can she do? It's not like she can change the past or anything... right?

      I can't help but love Jen Lancaster. I've followed her on Twitter and on her blog for years, I've read all of her memoirs, and she's one seriously hilarious lady. But in 'Here I Go Again' I felt that her sense of humor really shined through in a whole new refreshing kind of way.

      I loved pretty much everything about the book. 80's references were strewn throughout (mainly regarding the big hair bands) and being a personal lover of the 80's (and big hair bands) this was incredibly fun. I loved the cast of characters that were so completely hilarious, although Deva and her quirkiness was my favorite. But what made this most enjoyable was the fact that Lissy's 'change' into a better person after realizing how wrong she was in the past was truly genuine. The time travel bit was goofy but completely intentional. Did it make a whole lot of sense? No. Was it supposed to? No. But was it entertaining? Absolutely.

      Jen managed to write an extremely multi-layered story that was hilarious and incredibly enjoyable. Normally with these stories there's always the picture perfect happy ending, but in 'Here I Go Again', well, as Lissy would say:

      'Karma really is a bitch.'
    • 4/5
      Sometimes karma can be a real bitch -- especially when you're a total bitch to those around you when you're in high school. Lissy Ryder was the queen of everything back then, and now she's riding (if you can ride a downward slide) on the results. She's lost pretty much everything she wanted (I can't say cared about, because all she cared about was herself). Instead of being the darling of her high school reunion she's the demon. Life isn't pretty.Think about it. They say, "paybacks are hell." But what if you could go back and undo your wrongs, to avoid the damage you've done others, and restore the world to some sort of better place? Remember though, valuable lessons taught by Buddha and Marty McFly. You can't change the past without changing the future; all those butterfly wings, pond ripples, and missed first kisses. Lissy learns the hard way, and at 37, actually begins to grow up.I picked this up after seeing reviews on Goodreads, librarything, and The BookReporter. The reviews were basically right. It's kinda fun when chic lit makes you think and makes you laugh as well.
    • 2/5
      This book is preachy and high-schoolish -- but I kept on reading it.
    • 4/5
      Let me start by saying that I LOVE all of Jen Lancaster's memoirs. She is hilarious! I don't usually read books like this, but because it is Jen Lancaster I decided to give it a try.I hated this book at the beginning and it was very difficult to continue. Lissy Ryder (in the early chapters) is one of the most unlikeable characters that I have met in fiction. Her shallowness and meanness drove me crazy! In addition, it reminded me a great deal of Jen Lancaster's memoirs. Lissy Ryder seemed to be an evil version of Jen Lancaster herself. It felt too predictable.I decided to persevere, and was surprised to find myself enjoying the story more and more toward the end. (Possible spoiler alert).Lissy Ryder was spoiled and mean her whole life, and it finally catches up with her at age 37. She loses everything. Through a very unlikely fantasy-type scenario she ends up with the ability to travel back in time to try to correct her wrongs. She does this in hopes that it will give her a better life. Things do not turn out at all as she'd hoped. She learns a lot about herself and those she loves, and she becomes 1,000 times more likeable! I found myself rooting for her and hoping that she would have a happy ending after all.As with all Jen Lancaster books, there are amusing references to growing up in the 1980's and also modern day pop culture comments!I would recommend this book to those who enjoy women's fiction and to fans of Jen Lancaster, as long as you can hang in there and accept the rather unbelievable time travel angle. :) I'm glad I stuck with the book, I had a smile on my face at the end.
    • 2/5
      It was a quick, mindless read. I guess you could say it got better as it went on, but I'm probably kidding myself. It was nice to have something mindless to read.
    • 3/5
      A fun, lightweight read. Like many time travel stories, this one has a few holes that are apparent on later reflection, but while I was reading it, the story was so enjoyable I didn't notice them. I especially appreciate the fact that the story appears to have a predictable happy ending . . . but then continues after that to an ending that is less predictable and more fulfilling.
    • 4/5
      I am a big fan of Jen Lancaster. When i saw the opportunity to review of new book of hers, I grabbed it. I had no idea it was a novel, I just saw her name. I was pleasantly surprised to find that she had started writing novels and Here I Go Again was her second one.This book is definitely chick-lit. But that doesn't make it bad. I like chick-lit sometimes. What I don't like is when it is assumed readers of chick-lit are stupid and the books are dumbed down. Jen Lancaster does not do that. Of course the plot is not realistic. I mean, it involves traveling back in time. But it was fun and it made a point. Lissy Ryder was the queen bee in high school but just before her high school's 20th reunion, her life has fallen apart. She lost her job, her husband dumps her, and she is back living in her parents house. But she decides to start her own business and go to the reunion and hit up her now successful classmates (nerds now rule the world) for clients. She is stunned to learn how much they hate her and how they say the mean stuff she did in high school, they can never forgive her for.The next day she wakes up very hungover in the apartment of a former classmate she was mean to, Debbie, now Deva, who is a spiritual new-agey type who feels sorry for Lissy. After a little discussion, Deva tells Lissy that her life is missing clarity. She gives her a potion that says will help her. Which when she drinks it, takes her back to high school, giving her a chance to fix her mistakes.But can you change the past, or should you? Despite the laughs, there were times of poignancy that make the reader think. And this book was pure Jen Lancaster. And it came into my hands at a time when I really needed to laugh. When I finished this, I immediately reread Bitter is the New Black and My Fair Lazy.Keep writing Jen, novels or memoirs, they make me laugh and I love them.
    • 5/5
      Have you ever wondered how your life would be changed if you made different decisions in high school? Lissy Ryder is about to find out. Here I Go Again is an early 90s twist on It’s A Wonderful Life. What would the world be like if Lissy Ryder wasn’t a mean girl?I thought this book was so much fun! Lissy is a great character – she’s so self-absorbed, I just wanted to strangle her but at the same time I thought she was really funny. I was surprised by the way her classmates present day lives changed after she went back to high school – it wasn’t what I expected at all. My only quibble with the time travel is that when Lissy came back to the present after going back to high school, she didn’t remember the past twenty years. It seems like a shame to change the path of your life but not get to remember the journey of getting to your new reality. Perhaps Deva will give her a potion that will allow her to do that. That would be a great sequel!Fans of 80s and 90s pop culture will appreciate all the glam rock and grunge rock references. It was like a trip down memory lane for me since I’m the same age as Lissy. Because of the title, the Whitesnake song, Here I Go Again was in my head pretty much the entire time I was reading it.Jen is primarily known for her hilarious memoirs (Bitter is the New Black, Such a Pretty Fat). This is her second novel and I think she’s really coming into her own as a fiction writer. I can’t wait to see what her next fiction offering is like. (Jen has traded her trademark footnotes for parenthetical phrases so there shouldn’t be any trouble reading Here I Go Again on an e-reader.)