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Remember Me? | 
 enlarge | Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: The Dial Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  185 reviews
Sales Rank: 1799
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 0385338724
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780385338721
ASIN: 0385338724
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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Condition: Hardcover, with dust jacket. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear. Ships the next business day, with tracking and delivery confirmation sent to your email.
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Behind The Book: A Note to Amazon Readers from Author Sophie Kinsella It's hard, in hindsight, to say exactly how a book comes into being. There are so many ideas and themes that get explored and discarded along the way; so many layers that are built up. Plus it's a bit like having a baby—once the hard work is over it becomes a blur! But with all my novels, I usually start with one little kernel of an idea--and gradually build it up over months of thinking, plotting, the "coffee shop stage" as I call it. With Can you Keep A Secret? it was: what if you told someone all your secrets? With Remember Me? it was: what if you woke up and didn't recognize your life? What if you lost three years of memory--and everything had changed in that time? All my books involve some kind of wish-fulfilment; some kind of escapism--whether it's shopping, or a whirlwind romance, or stepping off the career treadmill--and Remember Me? is maybe the ultimate form of wish-fulfilment. What if you didn't recognize your life... because it had become so perfect? The image that kept coming to me was of a girl, blinking up at her Greek God of a husband, whom she doesn't recognize. It made me giggle every time I thought about it. And so I created my amnesiac heroine Lexi, and her perfect new glossy, unrecognizable life--from the new shiny teeth to the designer handbag, to the perfect millionaire husband. The potential for comedy was irresistible. Another theme I wanted to explore was identity, which I've always found fascinating. Our lives take unpredictable turns and we all change over time. But it's so gradual we don't always notice it. Would your younger self recognize your older self? Put another way, if you woke up tomorrow in the year 2011... what would you find? I grew incredibly close to Lexi whilst writing this book, and really felt all her ups and downs. I laughed and cried and cringed at every embarrassing moment (of which there are plenty!) I think of all my heroines she has maybe the biggest challenge to face and journey to make--as her biggest obstacle is herself. I hope you enjoy her journey!
Product Description
With the same wicked humor and delicious charm that have won her millions of devoted fans, Sophie Kinsella, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Shopaholic & Baby, returns with an irresistible new novel and a fresh new heroine who finds herself in a life-changing and utterly hilarious predicament….
When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, she’s in for a big surprise. Her teeth are perfect. Her body is toned. Her handbag is Vuitton. Having survived a car accident—in a Mercedes no less—Lexi has lost a big chunk of her memory, three years to be exact, and she’s about to find out just how much things have changed.
Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband—who also happens to be a multimillionaire? With her mind still stuck three years in reverse, Lexi greets this brave new world determined to be the person she…well, seems to be. That is, until an adorably disheveled architect drops the biggest bombshell of all.
Suddenly Lexi is scrambling to catch her balance. Her new life, it turns out, comes complete with secrets, schemes, and intrigue. How on earth did all this happen? Will she ever remember? And what will happen when she does?
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One major problem... September 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Honestly, when I'm reading fiction, I only judge a book by how entertaining it is. I'm fairly educated, but unless I'm reading the classics, or at least higher-brow fiction like John Irving or Wally Lamb, I don't rip a book apart based on story structure, continuity, believablity, or even character development. I know they're important, but I don't really care. There have been times I've loved books that had no strengths in these areas, and books I've hated that have had all of them. SOmetimes, I don't even know why I dislike them--even if the plot appeals to me, I either get into a book or I don't, and I can't put my finger on why.
So, I'm not even going to get into Kinsella's habit of creating one dimensional characters, or their unbelievability, or that they weren't given their full potential. Her books are entertaining as hell, and that's all I care about.
Remember Me? wasn't as good as her others. I've already re-read it, it's not awful, but it just fell a little flat--maybe as one of those "Gotta meet my deadline when I have so many better things to do" books. Everyone that has a favorite author has had to deal with one of these--when the author's heart just isn't in it. I think that's what happened here. Lexi wasn't the type of character I could be invested in--I'd love to hang out with Becky Bloomwood and Emma Corrington, even have afew drinks with Samantha Sweeting. Lexi just seemed weak and depressed, and the famous Kinsella humor failed to inject her with any warmth.
My main issues--
For one thing, I --SPOILER ALERT--wish her memory had returned.
I NEVER understood the whole marriage thing. I know she --SPOILER ALERT--struggled with her father screwing her family financially, but she was obviously successful in her own right, why marry a guy that prints invoices for his own wife? How could she have stomached the Monte Blanc in the first place?
And, my main problem--why the infedility in the first place? They never explained it. Okay, the sunflowers showed they had obviously been at it quite awhile, and the fact that Lexi was her "real self" over there shows she never drank the Kool-Aid. She obviously didn't love her husband--why wait so long to leave him? It didn't make sense.
 A disappointed Sophie Kinsella fan...small spoiler August 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I LOVE Sophie Kinsella...but I was very disappointed with this book. Not as unique in voice as her other books, plus the whole book's "romance" was based on an affair.
Where's Jennifer Garner? August 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Lexi wakes up from a conk on the head to find that three years have gone by -- and disappeared from her memory. Her sketchy boyfriend, Loser Dave, has been replaced by a gorgeous, rich (and quite stuffy) husband, Eric. Her best gal pals have become virtual strangers, and her hair has somehow become a gorgeous main, all the better to highlight her newly straightened teeth and collagened lips.
The only problem? Her new life doesn't quite fit the old Lexi. She wants things as they were, and is going to do her best to get them back.
Of all Kinsella's book, this is my least favorite. It has some of her traditional standbys -- a slightly goofy yet loveable main character, kooky minor characters, and a totally unbelievable yet charming premise.
The problem is, I felt like I was reading a bad novelized version of "Thirteen Going on Thirty." And the movie was much better than this book.
It isn't a BAD book. It was just a little boring in spots, and not nearly as cute as the movie. Go with Jennifer Garner instead.
 Sophie Kensella is the Best at capturing humor in her Books August 23, 2008
I cannot say enough good, hearwarming things about this book, "Do You Remember Me." Not only is it a page turner, you will be rolling oon the floor laughing at Lexy, the main character. Just like her "Shopoholic Series," all of her books so vividly capture her characters, and continuously made me laugh and relate, in so many ways, I had to stop and realize she wasn't writing about me. She has several movie deals in the works about her books, and I hope, like me" you will be excited and full of anticipation for them to be in theatres as soon as possible. Thanks, Sophie, for another masterpiece! Like me, you will be pulling for these herions to pull through and have a happy ending!
Sophie Kinsella breathes new life into cliched plot August 20, 2008
True to form, Kinsella delivers her signature humor, smart dialogue and totally relatable characters in this amnesiac adventure. When Lexi Smart wakes up in a posh private wing of a London hospital, the last thing she can remember is falling down a flight of steps while chasing a taxi after a long, disappointing day in which she is stood up for a date, overlooked for a bonus and emotionally wearied by her own unremarkable life. The only hitch is that night happened three years prior, and in the interim she has apparently pulled her act together, made herself over, picked up a hot multi-millionaire husband and alienated all her old friends with her driving ambition. She sets off to rediscover her recent past and figure out who she really is, and in the meantime learns some surprising truths about who she thought she was.
Kinsella writes Lexi with the same girl-next-door appeal as her Shopaholic series, voicing her self-doubts, getting her into embarrassing scrapes and delineating her charachter with true-to-life emotions until she could be any one of us. It's easy to identify with Lexi's initial wonder at her beautiful new life, her helpless confusion at being held accountable for a past she can't remember, and her gradual reawakening as she finds her past is secondary in importance to what she does with her present.
It's not a generation-defining bestseller, but compared to most of the offerings in the ever more annoying ChickLit genre, it's smart, funny and an entertaining read.
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