As a counterpoint, I wasn't really a child of the eighties but was familiar with a lot of the things in the book--wasn't hardcore into them because I was a young adult at the time. It wasn't a brilliantly written. But I found it more of "I'll just read one more chapter" than most things I've read for a while. Nostalgia I guess. Maybe I'm more of a sucker for that sort of thing than many. I did like it though.