Like books that got very popular but you never really could get into.

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      That one is generational I think. It isn’t going to hit all your childhood nostalgia buttons if you weren’t born by about 1985.

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        I was the target audience. I got all or almost all of the references, I just thought the book was awful.

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          Oh, well there goes my theory. I liked the book, but I saw it was relying on me relating hard to the 80’s references. Like a book version of The Wedding Singer.

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      It was a list more than a book. It read like the author was saying “look how smart I am with all these references.”