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The Complete, Cross-Referenced Guide to the Baby Buster Generation's Collective Unconscious

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The book is essestial for anyone who came of age in the 1980's. Though many consider it a forgettable decade, for those of us who grew up during those years, it's great to have a refresher course on things that we considered to be so important at the time. And where else are you going to find an entry on the brilliant, yet short lived series, "Manimal?"

If you ignore the book's ugly-as-sin cover artwork and delve into this maniacal volume of absolutely useless yet totally vital pop cultural information, you will be proud to say: "I am a member of the Chachi Generation." Buy it and love it.

This book was as much fun as a barrel of smurfs...required reading for those of us with a Dukes of Hazard lunch box and a Battlestar Galactica sleeping bag in the closet...awaken the Chachi within!

There was some good info in this book, but I felt that a lot of great movies (Monster Squad, Return of the Living Dead, Lonesome Dove, Fright Night, etc.) and TV shows (Werewolf, The Wizard, Monsters, Tales from the Darkside, etc.) were left out. From reading some of the entries, it doesn't seem that the authors have even seen some of the shows and movies they have included... the entry for The A-Team was especially off. Somethings I felt deserved longer entries and some could have been shortened up to make space for other stuff (did they really need to put in a highly-detailed, almost quarter-page synopsis of the movie Cocktail?). I was also annoyed that some listings would direct you to another entry only to find that the entry didn't exist or, instead of the entry being informative, they only consisted of either random or just plain smart-ass comments that could have been space for something else. I was expecting this to be a book on all thinks 80's, but a lot of 70s stuff found its way in there, too. Like I said, it wasn't bad... but it could have been a lot better if the authors had cared a little bit more.

In many ways my husband and I miss the 80's. We liked the music, the fashion and the way people were concerned with simple things like hygiene and attractive clothing. This book took us back to those happy carefree teenage years when things were good and we were nearly completely free of responsibility!! As we went through this book we had many good laughs and had fun remembering things long forgotten! I recommend this book if you liked the 80's and I recommend reading it with at least one other person who enjoyed that era! Fun book!

This book was better than 'Cats' - great trip down memory lane for any Gen X'er - makes the 80s seem rich with culture.

Boutros-Boutros gives this esteemed tome TWO BIG thumbs up on the Chachometer. A must-have for your bookshelf. Don't be a Sea Monkey...Big up yourself and buy it.