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My Lurid Past | 
| Author: Lauren Henderson
Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Category: Book
Buy New: £5.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 562949
Media: Paperback
Pages: 409
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 0751532614
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780751532616
ASIN: 0751532614
Publication Date: April 18, 2002
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 Funny AND insightful February 16, 2005
I loved this book. No, it's not a Sam Jones book, and it's much racier but also more emotionally truthful than other chick lit (at least that which I've read). I wasn't surprised that the heroine is sharp and funny, with enough neurosis to be believable but still be strong and confident, but I was surprised at how sharply the family tensions are drawn - the triangular relationship between the heroine, her brother and their mother was realistic and full of insights.
 Very disappointing. May 1, 2003
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was really disappointed with this book. The write up on the back of the book sounded intriguing but in my opinion, the author didn't put the story together well. I think there is too much detail on fetishism which left you thinking that it would play a better part in the story later on, but it didn't. The storyline between the family was good but again it left you thinking that more was going to happen but it didn't. As for the end, well I thought that I'd had pages ripped out of the back as it left you in the middle of the story! The story was not wrapped up and could of gone on for a few more chapters probably. A near dull read for me I'm afraid.
Great for Sam Jones Fans + Kicks ChickLit in the *** February 6, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Although this could be said to be ChickLit -- it avoids all the genre's most annoying features - the heroine is *not* broke, worried about weight, lazy/job hating, living in a crummy flat, quivering with insecurity, or yearning for a husband to rescue her. Not at all.She's successful, she works hard and enjoys it, she has a fabulous flat, great interesting friends, a full life, confidence, a spring in her step, shoes to die for, and by the way treats men like sextoys. The book is about her evolution - one day she wakes up and doesn't want casual sex anymore, but the reverse petrifies her. Kids, yuck. Committment, terror. It's female Peter Pan Syndrome coming to an end, and what do you do when that happens? If you are a Sam Jones Fan (as I am) this book may fascinate you, because it's really a closer examination of the exact situation that Sam finds herself in at the end of the last novel Pretty Boy. Do you hang out in your old life, or do you move in with Hugo? It's a bigger terror for Sam than any of the murderers she's met. I suspect that Lauren Henderson used this book to delve into the hip-female-committment-phobe idea much further, perhaps to resolve some things in her own mind, before returning to Sam Jones' next step.
My Lurid Past October 15, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
My Lurid Past, by Lauren Henderson is a must read for anyone single or married and over 25. I LOVED this novel and really enjoyed the realistic portrayal of a 30ish career woman, with "a history," family problems, and insecurities-- similar to ...well...mine!Thank you Lauren Henderson for creating a flawed character who somehow triumphs!
 Sam Jones it isn't April 26, 2002
22 out of 26 found this review helpful
Which is basically the problem. Lauren Henderson's crime series with Sam Jones is very good indeed and if you come to this book with expectations about having a similar sort of witty, smooth read you're going to be disappointed in this story about Juliet who's had too much in the way of men and is suffering from blow out, her friend Gillian who isn't getting enough and Mel the dominatrix. And tied in with this there's her feckless, selfish brother whom she feels responsible for (why?) and a tiresome, disatisfied mother whom she can never please. I can't help wondering if Henderson didn't write this before she started on the Sam Jones books and really found her voice - for instance the scene in the fetish club here just doesn't match up to the one in Freeze My Margherita. This isn't a bad book, it's a lot better than much of what gets published in female fiction these days, and Liam the celebrity cook on the verge of breaking through is a wonderful charecter, it's just that if you know Henderson's work you know she can do so much better. And I still can't wait to read Pretty Boy.
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