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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

A Thousand Shades of Gray:

The author claims this is a work of fiction, but that's just because I didn't grant permission for him to use my life in his story. Actually, we've never met, but reading this book, I felt like it was 1985 all over again.

My favorite quote was:

"We figured any teenage kid living through those Reagan years who said The Smiths were too miserable for them was either a liar, an imbecile, or so thoroughly [messed] up, they had no idea just how miserable they were."

Yeah. That's just how it was.

It's a... more info

Same old suit since 1962:

In the mid-1980's music collecting was a hard job. There was no internet, of course, and the radio couldn't be depended on and music television was lame. If you weren't into Billy Ocean or Billy Joel then you had no environment to lean on. Smiths fans in the U.S. all had this in common, we all had to search high and low for an obscure release here and there, and then quickly network with like-minded friends and swap. Joe Pernice captures and chronicles the plight and obsession we all made part of our lives... more info

I only read an excerpt, but...:

...Joe, did you get the channel wrong that you finally caught "How Soon is Now?" In the excerpt I saw, you wrote V68. Wasn't it V66? That's what I used to watch. Good old David O'Leary's launching pad (I think).

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