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| Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Bantam Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 7882
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0593053893
EAN: 9780593053898
ASIN: 0593053893
Publication Date: February 11, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Light, easy read August 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read this book in one day! Just couldn't put it down. Very easy to read and i totally got into it. Yes, it's far fetched but isn't that what a good book is all about?? Great read for the beach.
 Very Disappointing August 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I hate to slander Sophie Kinsella's work because of how much I adore the Shopoholic series, Can You Keep A Secret?, and Undomestic Goddess. However, I am going to be quite honest and say that I was unpleasantly surprised by Remember Me. I bought the hardback on the day it came out (having loved all of Sophie's other books, I didn't hesitate). I then settled myself in Costa Coffee and spent the time it took me to drink a cup of tea reading the prologue and, erm, I think it was the first three chapters. I have to say, right from finishing the Prologue my excited expression deteriorated into a perplexed frown. Usually Sophie's books have made me laugh-out-loud at least one in the opening pages. I told myself it was just the prologue and not to be so hastily judgemental, but to be honest, it didn't get any better. I smirked/smiled amusedly at certain parts that were slightly funny, but never shook my head in disbelief with grin spread at anything, or laughed loudly and ended up drawing attention to myself. All of Sophie's books, particularly Can You Keep a Secret? have had that effect on me. Some of the witty language Sophie has used reduced me into fits of laughter. Not Remember Me.
I also didn't have any affection for Lexie's character, and I believe that actually caring about a book's protagonist makes all the difference to whether one will like it or not. I didn't really care what happened to Lexie, unlike Becky who (although her behaviour is infuriating at times) I always wish the best for. When I finished the novel, I placed it upon the shelf with my other Sophie books, but in a way I don't think it belongs there.
I asked myself if I was being overly critical because I was comparing it to Sophie's other books too much, and would actually like it if it was done by a completely seperate author. Sadly, no. It wasn't a good book by any standards, not just the high standards I'd set Sophie's writing ability at.
Loved it! Great holiday read! July 29, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book on holiday in my hotel on a rainy day - a couple of days later I was finished! A funny, entertaining read with a great ending. There were times when I thought the memory loss of the character could have been used to create some more funny scences but overall an excellent read that made me smile!
Reclaiming what was once you July 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"I was a normal girl with frizzy hair and snaggle teeth and a crap boyfriend. And a fairly crap job, and friends who I had a laugh with, and a cozy little flat." - Lexi Smart
"I gaze into the mirror and my twenty-eight-year-old face stares back. How on earth did I get from me ... to her?" - Lexi Smart
Sophie Kinsella is author of the enormously humorous - and frivolous with a capital "F" - SHOPAHOLIC series starring Becky Bloomwood, spendthrift shopper extraordinaire. I know; I've read them all. In REMEMBER ME?, Kinsella takes a more sobering, but just as enjoyable, tack. I devoured it over the July 4th weekend, stopping only for unavoidable chores that I couldn't unload onto the wife.
Here, the heroine is Lexi Smart, who awakens in a hospital bed several days after suffering a severe crack on the head. To her dismay, the past three years of her life are totally forgotten. During that period, she had apparently morphed from a fun-loving but unremarkable, low-paid drone in Deller Carpets, where she worked with her chums Fi, Carolyn and Debs while dating Loser Dave, into a gorgeous, poised and driven senior executive of the same company and married to Eric, a handsome and charming multi-millionaire property developer. Her new existence contains everything beyond her wildest dreams, if only she could remember how she got them. But, as she gets acquainted with her "new" self, her apparently ideal lifestyle begins to show frays around the edges that threaten to unravel towards the center. Perhaps it's not so perfect? Indeed, Fi, Carolyn and Debs now snub her horridly. And what is Eric's reference to "Mont Blanc" all about?
For the reader who may wonder where life went wrong and wishes one could go back again, REMEMBER ME? demonstrates that, at least in fiction, it can be done. Like Becky Bloomwood, Sophie conjures Lexi with a fierce affection for the persona while putting her in situations that threaten to spiral deliciously out of control. Like Becky, Lexi has the core intelligence, goodness, and strength of character to muddle through.
Kinsella writes chic-lit par excellence. But even this male continues to be charmed.
Fantastic!Summer Read! July 7, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having loved Sophie Kinsella's shopaholic series i wasn't too sure if i'd like her writing about a different character as Becky was hilarious! However theres something about this author that i love: she makes me laugh so much and her stories are unputtdownable! Remember Me was packed with hilarious situations from Lexi accidently turning the burgular alarm on during a very important show home evening to her making the lights in her home going into disco mode her husband walking in and making an hilarious comment! This is such a perfect summer read and for anyone who enjoyed the shopaholic series this is a must read!!!
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