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TheEllieMo
Old Age: A Beginner's Guide | Michael Kinsley
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Saw this on Facebook and had to share…

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IuliaC 😂😂 1y
Bookwomble ? I'm not quite so bad - if I read 100 TBR books a year, and buy no more, I'll be through them in 10 years. Perfectly achievable, except for the "buy no more" proviso ? 1y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Me too!! 🤣🤣🤣 1y
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keithmalek
Boomsday | Christopher Buckley
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Pickpick

A brilliant and hilarious political satire about a millennial who proposes that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to commit suicide at the age of seventy-five in order to save Social Security for future generations.

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Bigwig
What Really Happened to the Class of '65 | David Wallechinsky, Michael Medved
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In 1965, TIME profiled the senior class of the elite Palisades High School in L. A. and 10 years later Michael Medved and David Wallechinsky interviewed the graduates to learn how their lives had turned out. The result is part biopic, part memoir, with brief narratives framing the subjects‘ memories and reflections. Anyone who ever wonders about long lost high school friends - and what they might recall about you - would find much to ponder here.

Nute Oh, I like this type of curiosity. Why that particular high school? Is that the high school that both authors attended? 2y
Bigwig Yes, the authors both attended this school. In addition, the school had been featured in a TIME profile years earlier. So the idea was for the authors to find out what had happened to their classmates, and due to the previous magazine profile, general readers might already be familiar with many of the personalities. It‘s from another era, but the insights are universal. 2y
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ssleif
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If you are fairly new to discussions of the selfishness/shortsightedness of middle-to-right politics that gained prominence as the Baby Boomer generation began to hold power, then maybe this book is for you. There was plenty I found engaging, especially as discussing the conditions at play coming out of the second world war, and the section discussing Vietnam draft dodging. But the author seems to have a lot of blind spots. #USPolitics #USHistory

ssleif Possibly it needed a more strict editor? But I found there was a lot more personal opinion and a lot less reference to data than I would have preferred. Particularly since I know that data is out there. Also the author seems to be relying a lot more on villainy of individual people, and a lot less on the power of institutions, money, and capitalism more broadly. Maybe the ending justifies the meandering in the middle, but it lost me before that. 3y
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Hooked_on_books
Boomsday | Christopher Buckley
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A brilliant Millennial whose father squandered her college money finds herself among the Washington elite when she proposes that Boomers voluntarily commit suicide to reduce debt on the younger population. This is a hilarious, snarky political satire (a pro-life group is acronymed SPERM) read with perfect aplomb by Janeane Garofalo, who is simply perfect. I snorted my way through it.

vivastory This has been on my TBR forever. Wasn't aware that Garofolo did the audio. Will definitely be going that route. 4y
vivastory *Garofalo 4y
Hooked_on_books @vivastory I think you‘ll really like it. And I‘ve decided Garofalo and Bahni Turpin should read all audiobooks. I would be a very happy person. 4y
Megabooks Oh. I really thought this was going to be about the last Boomsday in Knoxville, Tennessee. 😂😂 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomsday 4y
Megabooks It does sound really good though. Stacking! 4y
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Josiedlove
Boomsday | Buckley
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I had an amazing time at BookCon...Here‘s my book haul...