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peebee's review
4.0
The malapropisms get a little forced - hell start a little forced - but it's a good enough dazed and confused style coming-of-age-in-the-70s style book. Kids get drunk and high and treat each other like shit and there's not a single decent human being in the lot, because everyone's a dumb-as-rocks teenager from California's central valley, where the Worst People are born.
If more of these are what we're in for as Gen X starts to get old and wonder what happened to the kids they were, could be a lot worse. Never seen one where they act like they were each and every one a special little Jesus for getting drunk, high, fucking, going to college, listening to mainstream pop music dabbling in racial justice after King and the Freedom riders had done all the dying, and throwing a collective tantrum about maybe having to go fight in a war that the poor kids had already been dying in for a decade, i.e. the whole insufferable boomer-youth-industrial complex.
If more of these are what we're in for as Gen X starts to get old and wonder what happened to the kids they were, could be a lot worse. Never seen one where they act like they were each and every one a special little Jesus for getting drunk, high, fucking, going to college, listening to mainstream pop music dabbling in racial justice after King and the Freedom riders had done all the dying, and throwing a collective tantrum about maybe having to go fight in a war that the poor kids had already been dying in for a decade, i.e. the whole insufferable boomer-youth-industrial complex.
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