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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't read any of the books you are referencing here but that review is really funny and gave me a very good sense about the kind of thing you are talking about. It doesn't make me want to read these books but does make me think it might be a good Father's Day gift for my dad.

I know how it feels when younger people look at you and just think you are embarrassingly out of touch. I think I was born kind of "old" and just read as conservative and clueless because people have always treated me this way. Like literally when I was in high school, middle schoolers would heckle me for being "old and boring." I'm in my mid-40s and recently acquired some neighbors who are maybe late 20s/early 30s and one of them literally said "ok b**mer" to me, which I thought was pretty funny. It's okay. But it's also okay to admit that books like this are largely about wish fulfillment, the same way romance novels are about unrealistic romantic experiences for women, or Harry Potter is about a child who feels overlooked and unloved learning he's literally the most famous wizard in history. It's okay for books to do that.[/quote]

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