gabe [he/him]M to Fiction [email protected] • 1 year agoWhat book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped?message-square41fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up129arrow-down1message-squareWhat book do you feel is/was kinda overhyped?gabe [he/him]M to Fiction [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square41fedilinkfile-text
minus-square@brygphilomenalink3•1 year agoIt was a list more than a book. It read like the author was saying “look how smart I am with all these references.”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoThat one is generational I think. It isn’t going to hit all your childhood nostalgia buttons if you weren’t born by about 1985.
minus-squareDrusaslinkfedilink3•1 year agoI was the target audience. I got all or almost all of the references, I just thought the book was awful.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•1 year agoOh, 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.”
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.
I was the target audience. I got all or almost all of the references, I just thought the book was awful.
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.